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When I was a young boy, I was sitting on the table and I was sketching my room in many different ways. I was drawing my dreams about places I wanted to live in. It was my secret world in which I could feel safe and happy.

Pursuit of the shelters is a part of our human being from the first moment of our lives.

Our first home is mother’s womb where abide before we born. Next, mother’s arms and cosy cot are shelter places we ‘live’ in. As children we build tree houses, secret tents or arrange private, mysterious places for dreaming or escapes.  Finally we build our houses for our families and next generation.

Idea of shelter places is not a matter of time it is a matter of existence.  From the dawn of the history people were looking for shelters. At the beginning it could be cave or den; next we started to build simple cots and hut using natural materials like branches and leaves. After ages of changes and hundreds of different ways of house building, today we can use countless numbers of natural and artificial materials for buildings and interiors arrangement. New technologies and accessibility many mediums of modern world give us unlimited possibilities.

Idea of the shelters is not only about places we indwell, it is also about aesthetic of it.

Like Palaeolithic  people designed walls of Lascaux with primitive paintings, first human shelters , 16 thousand years old, like anonymous artists painted residences of Greek and Roman wealthy citizens, like first French decorators such as Le Vau or Mansard working for aristocratic and royal families, like design ideas of artists representing Arts and Craft Movements  aimed for wide range of social classes of 19th century  England;  also modern people, as never before, are looking for personal and unique solutions for their own spaces, both residential  and commercial.

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