The revival of interest in classical design is not a form of architectural puritanism, nor of straightforward homage. In an era increasingly devoted to online spheres – and increasingly divorced from the material world – New Interiors brings us back in touch with ways to aesthetically conceive of time itself. It opens us up to what 19th-century writer François-René de Chateaubriand expressed as “the fragility of our nature ... a secret analogy between destroyed monuments and our own fleeting existence.”