Piero Bottoni’s Milan
At a time when one of his iconic buildings, the one in Corso Sempione 33, could be irreversibly disfigured, we remember the architect’s devoted relationship to his city. From Domus 721.
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A letter from Domus to the first President of Italy
“Hope is our privilege”. In June 1946, the new director of Domus Ernesto Nathan Rogers addressed an open letter to the future President of the newly-established Italian Republic, giving voice to an entire discipline and a generation.
The priest’s hat, Henry Wolf’s “double” cover for Domus 737
An event that could never happen again today. The story of a 1992 cover that arrived at the editorial staff and shocked them all. Recalled here by Giuseppe Basile, long-time Art Director of Domus.
Who was Ricardo Bofill (1939-2022)
On the occasion of his death, we retrace the work of the Catalan architect through more than 50 years of the Domus archive, among radical projects, historicism and the construction of a critical figure.
The modern bathroom: stories from the archives
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.
The story of the 265 wall lamp, now reissued by Flos
Designed almost 50 years ago by Paolo Rizzatto, the “synthetic” lamp for living spaces makes its comeback.
Carlo Mollino and the architecture of the highest mountains
Perhaps better than when it was accessible, the ghost of the Fürggen cableway today tells the story of its blurred creation by Carlo Mollino, who spent years on the Grand Murailles and on the Matterhorn designing an ideal city. From Domus 889.
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The fate of the ICC, the spaceship that seemed too much, even for Berlin
After being closed for almost ten years, the gigantic and futuristic congress centre built as a symbol of the West in the City of the Wall is now looking for a future.
“How will we live?” according to Gio Ponti
130 years after the birth of its founder, Domus returns on the legendary editorial that inaugurated the magazine’s story, investigating a philosophy of domestic space which can still provide an answer to many of our contemporary questions on dwelling.
Milano Design Week
From Salone to Supersalone, in 60 years of Domus
Through Domus archives, we recall the story of the main event for Italian design, from the early furniture fairs to the most recent Milan Design Weeks.