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This book revolves around the shaping of Roman domestic space and cultural issues of privacy and representativeness. At the core is a set of lavish rooms where layout, architecture and décor bespeak the presence of one or two beds suitable for sleep or daytime rest. For the first time, the author restores the rich contextual readings regarding the dense network of location, architecture, accessibility, lighting, landscape, decoration. In Pompeian houses alcove cubicula were among the key reception rooms. Their images acted as prime symbols of power, as real weapons in strategies of distinction. Luxury, lifestyle, prestige, and the debates around them seem to be primarily related to the design of these comparatively small environments. No other type of room shows such quick adaptation to the most up-to-date trends, owing to a series of real revolutions in fashion first developed for lavish patrician residences, then spread among medium-, later even small-size abodes throughout town. In the realm of domestic life, alcove rooms constitute a sound source for inquiring into the different tastes of Pompeii's various social groups. Defined by financial means and social affluence, their tastes ranged from aesthetics of luxury to an ordinary reception of trivialized clichés.

Architecture, Domestic --- Architecture, Roman. --- Domestic space --- Architecture and society --- Architecture domestique --- Architecture romaine --- Espace domestique --- Architecture et société --- Social aspects --- Aspect social --- Pompeii (Extinct city) --- Pompéi (Ville ancienne) --- Social life and customs --- Buildings, structures, etc --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Constructions --- Architecture and society --Rome. --- Architecture, Domestic --Social aspects --Rome. --- Domestic space --Rome. --- Domiciles --- Architecture --- Architecture, Roman --- Dwellings --- Homes --- Houses --- One-family houses --- Residences --- Residential buildings --- Single-family homes --- Buildings --- House-raising parties --- Household ecology --- Housing --- Roman architecture --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Architecture, Rural --- Domestic architecture --- Home design --- Rural architecture --- Villas --- Design and construction --- Architecture, Primitive --- Archaeology of Built Environment. --- Pompeii. --- Roman Domestic Architecture. --- Roman Housing. --- Social Archaeology.

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The focus of this volume is on the aesthetics, semantics and function of materials in Roman antiquity between the 2nd century B.C. and the 2nd century A.D. It includes contributions on both architectural spaces (and their material design) and objects - types of 'artefacts' that differ greatly in the way they were used, perceived and loaded with cultural significance. With respect to architecture, the analysis of material aesthetics leads to a new understanding of the performance, imitation and transformation of surfaces, including the social meaning of such strategies. In the case of objects, surface treatments are equally important. However, object form (a specific design category), which can enter into tension with materiality, comes into particular focus. Only when materials are shaped do their various qualities emerge, and these qualities are, to a greater or lesser extent, transferred to objects. With a focus primarily on Roman Italy, the papers in this volume underscore the importance of material design and highlight the awareness of this matter in the ancient world.

HISTORY / Ancient / Greece. --- Materiality. --- Roman architecture. --- decor and decoration. --- object design.