Many memorable covers have resulted from the collaboration between Domus and the great British graphic designer. However, as Giuseppe Basile recalls – Domus’ art director for more than thirty years – one in particular is absolutely astonishing.
Coffee makers, pure forms and memories of cherished objects: we look back at the history of the objects designed by the Italian architect and published in Domus, particularly in the 1980s, now on display in Milan.
After 21 years from the launch of the iconic MP3 player that revolutionized the way people enjoy music, the Californian company has announced the end of its production. Let’s retrace his debut on Domus 844.
In 2016 Domus published an intervention by future guest editor Ando, merging construction and landscape to create a spiritual experience through the tools of space and atmosphere.
Ceramic or plexiglas, red, green, soft or compact bathrooms. The bathroom tells us more about the people who live in the house than we think. A journey through the archives to discover the evolution of the most private room in the domestic space.
Pritzker Prize-winning architect, senator for life, multifarious inventor: throughout six decades, all of them documented in the Domus archives, Renzo Piano has told his story in words and projects. The first part of such journey is an innovative reflection on the role of those who live for designing.
In the 80s, the great artist, designer and architect, who has recently passed away, presented a reinterpretation of an intensely symbolic object on Alessandro Mendini’s Domus.
Icon of the Japanese Metabolist group soon to be demolished, the tower appeared on Domus in 1973, along with a project of capsules assembpling to form an independent house.
In 1972 Domus published Yacov Agam and Pierre Paulin's designs for the French President's apartments in Paris, the project where the famous Élysée furniture collection was prototyped. We feature them in the days when France returns to the presidential vote.
Nearly rejected by the very regime that commissioned it, first criticised, then forgotten and finally rediscovered: from the Domus archive, the story of the critical metamorphosis of an icon of modern architecture.
