3rd year students from the Interior Architecture & Furniture Design department are developing ideas and products for Forbo, an major international Linoleum producer. As introduction I developed this presentation in order to (re-)consider the phenomenon of so-called period rooms, which either (re-)present a specific style period, or can be considered as frozen artefacts. This lecture both highlights and questions the assets of the Bauhaus period, the dominant style movement prior to the advent of post-modernism in the 1970s. Bauhaus advocated industrial repetition and mass production. Forbo delivers enormous quantities of linoleum, but also maintains the necessary variation in order to 'customise' interior architecture projects.

4. Period Rooms
Stijlkamers

6. Morris Lapidus
American Icon

7. If you like ice cream,
why stop at one scoop?
have two, have three,
TOO MUCH IS NEVER ENOUGH

8. If you create the stage setting,
and it is grand,
everyone who enters will play their part

15. Time Capsules
Frozen Styles

20. Real Estate
Refrigerators

24. Sir John Soane Museum
Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London

25. Thomas Hope
Egyptian Revival

32. Rik Mouwen
The Production of a Palace