Untitled Transformation by Rooms Studio

For Milan Design Week 2026, Rooms Studio presents Untitled Transformation — an exhibition centred on processes of change within functional objects, where form, surface, and meaning continuously shift. The collection examines a state of duality, embracing both the act of masking and the display of raw vulnerabilities.

Objects move between states: covered and exposed, soft and structural, present and absent. Layers are applied, altered, and absorbed — as in Second Skin, where a temporary covering becomes embedded into the structure itself. Transformation unfolds as a gradual transition — a change of skin. Alongside this, a series - Line and Curve - plastered metal chairs explores transformation at its point of origin. Reduced to basic elements — line and curve — the works bring together rigidness and fluidity. The use of plaster, a material associated with initial moulding, reflects a state of beginning, where form is still in the process of becoming.

Rooted in the context of Georgia, the work reflects both collective and personal processes of moving through inherited layers and their release, alongside a need to reconsider and reshape the country’s historical patterns. Taking André Breton’s notion of Surrealism as a state of mind, the exhibition treats it as a way of structuring thought — where reasoning extends beyond the strictly rational and unfolds through imagination, association, and intuitive logic. The installation operates through a field of associative thinking, where connections emerge across objects, images, and spatial arrangements rather than through fixed narratives. Within this condition, everyday objects slip into a quiet surreal state, where fragments of interiors, bodies, and lived experience surface and overlap.

Photography by Adrianna Glaviano from our recent Tbilisi interiors project is extending this field of associations and shaping the atmosphere of the space. Untitled Transformation unfolds as a constellation of relations, where transformation becomes a way of perceiving — across object, space, and lived experience.

Photo credit: ©Kane Hulse