Reading the Design-Consumption Relationship through the Main Fictional Space of the Mon Oncle Movie, Villa Arpel

Abstract

The act of consumption has a lively structure that shows its existence at every point of life. From past to present, individuals have tended to consume many things voluntarily/involuntarily in order to meet their various needs, and they continue to do so. In particular, the effects of concepts such as globalization and capitalism on societies have brought consumption behaviors to a different dimension. As these behaviors are discussed within the framework of each discipline, the relationship with the discipline of interior design is also emphasized. In the early ages, areas with definite borders, which were created with the concern of fulfilling basic needs such as shelter and food and beverage, started to serve individuals with different spatial setups with developing-changing-transforming time, materials, and technology. Especially with industrialization, people have started to consume spaces and other elements (furniture, textile, materials, accessories, etc.) that make up spaces at the same time, with the desire to go one step beyond what they have. In this study, it is aimed to evaluate the concept of consumption through Villa Arpel, one of the main fictional spaces of the 1958 film Mon Oncle, which draws attention to modernism that has become widespread with industrialization and constitutes the sample of the study. The point reached by the concept of consumption through changing lifestyles in the transition from the traditional to the new is presented to the audience in a critical and thoughtprovoking language. In the method of the study, a literature review was made as a qualitative research technique, and the data obtained were processed and interpreted. The findings obtained as a result of the interpreted data are important in terms of making the reader think that the consumption instinct formed in individuals, through the strong spatial fiction of Villa Arpel, which is the sample of the study, preserves/continues its validity in the current century.