Current Issue: Domus 851

DCM’s prototype for a tea and coffee service by Alessi. Photography by Carlo Lavatori

The compensations of philosophy

Drifting through Japan

Restoring a reputation

Rino Levi in Italy and Brazil

Shock tactics

Skin-deep design

Drawing with a light touch

More can be a bore, too

Competitions

Exhibitions, events, fairs

Mandarina Duck in Rome

Hans Hollein’s remarkable new Vulcania

Next

The future of architecture at the Venice Biennale

Next object

Twenty years after the Tea and Coffee Piazza, Alessi has joined with the Venice Biennale to show the work of a new generation. Alessandro Mendini discusses the process with Stefano Casciani

Big in Japan

Rowan Moore assesses FOA’s debut

The architecture of conflict

Daniel Libeskind’s Imperial War Museum in Manchester

Temporarily modern

While MoMA builds its huge new extension in the city, the museum has moved out to the suburbs

Design factories

Rita Capezzuto looks at the new Sportswear Company showroom in Milan

The art box

Baumschlager and Eberle’s Munich insurance building had to accommodate art as well as offices

Pawson and Klein

Calvin Klein’s new Paris store

The beauty of imperfection

Hella Jongerius talks to Francesca Picchi

Furniture

Maria Cristina Tommasini’s selection

After Sgarbi

Iosa Ghini’s five things

Pop High Tech

Editorial

by Deyan Sudjic