ABSTRACT
One have Talked Already of horizontal movement into and through interiors. Vertical movement, either real or imagined, is also important in interior design. Jung and Bachelard have both written of the attic and the cellar as images of psychological states, and Bachelard has written specifically of the "dual vertical polarity of a house" subject to the pulls of upper and lower regions beyond the usually inhabited spaces. It is these subsidiary regions, he says, that make the house such an effective shelter for one’s own imaginations: "Of course, thanks to the house, a great many of our memories are housed, and if the house is a bit elaborate, if it has a cellar and a garret, nooks and corridors, our memories have refuges that are all the more clearly delineated." These regions are indeed different from each other, and they fuel different memories.
