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closer relation to the audile-tactile, space was not a visual
container. There was scarcely any furniture in a medieval room,
as Siegfried Giedion explains in Mechanization Takes Command
(p. 301):
And yet there was a medieval comfort. But it must
be sought in another dimension, for it cannot be
measured on the material scale. The satisfaction and
delight that were medieval comfort have their source in
the configuration of space. Comfort is the atmosphere
with which man surrounds himself and in which he lives.
Like the medieval Kingdom of God, it is something that
eludes the grasp of hands. Medieval comfort is the
comfort of space.
A medieval room seems finished even when it
contains no furniture. It is never bare. Whether a