IRENE: THE EVOLUTION OF THE HOME CONCEPT. TRANSVERSAL ENVIRONMENTS

The house becomes a home from the moment it is lived in. 

In the history of the modern home, it was in the early 20th century that the new housing models were developed.

But, over the decades, new changes have taken place based on changing historical, economic and lifestyle realities.

Since the early 1970s, thanks to the advent of design, there has been a profound rethinking of the concept of furnishings and the functions and the structure of rooms, but it is above all in the last two decades that more decisive transformations have profoundly changed our concept of the home.

Starting with the semantic transformation of those areas once known as 'service' areas, such as the bathroom and kitchen, which have undergone a complete upheaval, to the extent that today they even have status symbol connotations. 

The subsequent advent of trends, coinciding with profound changes in culture and customs and the decisive advent of technology, have led to the configuration of a home with new features for living.

The home has become the new world in which you live the different moments of work, socialising, fitness, study, relaxation. Furnishings and spaces have thus become multifunctional to meet different needs.

From green to fitness, from domotics to smart working - which has grown exponentially in the last pandemic period - to the need for home entertainment, which has grown thanks to overwhelming tech development, the home has found itself facing continuous nomadism and permanent transformation. So the living room also becomes a space for working, playing or socialising, but so do the bedroom, the kitchen and the outdoor spaces. And so spaces and furnishings coexist with technologies and new functions, becoming structurally transversal, succeeding in resolving different needs and adapting to the experience of those who live in the home and its space. An unstoppable trend, an absolute and seductive imperative that outlines the future for all of us and that, at RG, we face with our usual mastery.