From Studio 54 to Fire Island Pines: the beach parties of New York’s queer community
Published on Domus, November 1979, Scott Bromley’s stage for a beach party at Fire Island Pines, the favourite vacation spot of New York’s gay community.
A short tale about spiaggine
Conceived as special versions or regular models, beach cars embodied the desire for freedom of a whole decade, and were a formidable experimentation field for coachbuilders and car makers.
Mediterranean hotels: timeless classics and overlooked gems from the 1960s
As mass tourism rapidly rises, millions of people settle by the shoreline, or at least they do so for a few weeks every year. From the Domus archives, a selection of the best architectures designed for them.
Joe and Gianni Colombo, masters of space
In 1995, Lisa Ponti wrote a review of the exhibition at the Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art of Bergamo dedicated to the Colombo brothers and to their shared artistic research on space, carried out in the fervent cultural environment that characterized the Milan of the ‘50s and ‘60s.
The 1960s Italian summer houses from Domus archive
Today, as in the 1960s, holiday homes are once again the favorite summer destination. The spaces, optimized and flexible, inspired by the vernacular architecture of the Mediterranean, welcome the landscape, the guest of honor.
The gas pump turns 100-years-old
The gas pump centennial is the occasion to reflect on the past and future of service stations, which were a relevant field of experimentation for architecture all along the 20th century.
Eileen Gray: design pioneer
In December 1968, in the pages of Domus, Joseph Rykwert paid homage to Eileen Gray, the “remarkably sensitive” designer and incredibly neglected by critics.
Dear Zaha Hadid. A conversation between Alessandro Mendini and the Iraqi architect
We publish from the Domus Archive the interview between the director Alessandro Mendini and the young Iraqi architect, photographed on the cover of May 1984.
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A stroll around the home of… Giorgio Morandi, the painter who transforms his surroundings into works of art
Our fourth appointment in the homes of the designers from the Domus Archive takes place in Bologna, at Giorgio Morandi's. This time, Leo Lionni recounts the visit to the painter's house with a sequence of words and images that seem to capture the transformation of the surroundings into works of art.
Viconic: the mythology of Vico Magistretti, from Domus archives
In the year of his 100th birthday, Domus explores the evolution of an icon of Italian architecture and design through an “archival photo story”.
From the archive: Jean Prouvé’s designs for prefab shelters
Fulvio Irace traces how Prouvé’s lifelong investigation into the “architecture of assembly” was covered in Domus from the 1940s to 1970s. From Domus 1046.