INTERACTION OF "LIVING SPACE" AND "PSYCHOLOGICAL SHERE" OF THE INDIVIDUAL IN A REPRESENTATIVE INTERIOR
This paper represents an attempt to investigate the transfer of the internal idea of the "ideal living space" (in this case the matter is the working office of a person, who served as head of state), containing a set of personal meanings, values and meaningful images, in terms of external object situation through design activities. The purpose of work is to identify characteristic patterns of a representative interior and the links between personality and “objective world”, as well as their impact on each other. The object of study is the offices of two executives of Russia of the Soviet period. Based on different memories, photographs and newsreels a detailed description of the interior of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin’s and Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin’s offices is made. Analysis of the data of "living space" has shown the close relationship of the individual with its "objective world" as well as their interaction with each other. "Personal sense" of the object content of the offices were analyzed and identified. An attempt to consider the interior in terms of design and psychology, based on "field theory" of Kurt Lewin, has been made in this paper. The findings suggest the relevance of research in the field of representative interiors in general, and the “interiors of power” in particular.