The visionary genius of David Lynch embellished the Milan Design Week, with an installation entitled “Interiors by David Lynch. A Thinking Room”, a “suspended” space in which the absolute protagonist was… thought
Between pavilions 5 and 7 of the Milan Fair, after the sixty-second edition of the Salone del Mobile just took place, visitors this year were able to enjoy a room where they could stop and think, entirely dedicated to reflection and their own personal emotional flow . “A Thinking Room” by David Lynch was in fact a space separated from the world, two identical rooms facing each other designed by the great American director, author of masterpieces such as “Blue Velvet”, “The Elephant Man” and “Twin Peaks ”, and physically built by the Piccolo Teatro of Milan.
The environment is entirely dominated by the color blue, with a throne and a foldaway table in the center, as well as materials for writing and drawing (paper, pencils, brushes…). Suspended between dream and reality, the Lynchian room at the Salone del Mobile 2024 is also a journey condensed into the dense imagination of the director, author of visions that have been engraved in the collective imagination (who doesn’t remember the famous theme song of “Twin Peaks”, a serial that literally changed the history of television in the nineties?). Mystery, ambiguity, dream, sacredness, role of the gaze and vision: everything is intertwined in this environment expertly built to be the pinnacle of a path conceived by Lombardini22, who created the master plan for the layout and architecture of the space exhibition.
Not too much cinema, in the Lynchian room, but rather something that alludes to cinema without becoming it, and this by explicit will of the director, who wanted to create something different, not a film scenario but a dream one, a suspended and undecidable reality, perhaps a metaphor of contemporary existence. According to Antonio Monda, a great friend of the American filmmaker for more than twenty years and collaborator in the realization of this idea, “A Thinking Room” represented “an oasis to regenerate, to be reborn and to relive. A place to make thinking happen.”
A new and original look at the world of interiors, Lynch’s was a decidedly fascinating contribution to Design Week 2024, a mysterious and allusive interior environment, a bit like the many carefully reconstructed interiors seen in his films, in which has the impression that the locations “act” as much as the actors, and contribute significantly to conveying to the viewer the profound sense of an atmosphere and a state of mind, playing in particular “on the contrast between the structural strength and the ‘random and unrepresentable element of thought.”
