Current Issue: Domus 911

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To explore the many lives of Gio Ponti (Milan, November 18, 1891 – September 16, 1979) is to get lost in a labyrinth of ideas, trades and aspirations.

Editorial. Pontian atlas

Flavio Albanese. Pontian atlas

Gio Ponti, Pablo Bronstein, Tobias Rehberger, Bernard Rudofsky, Francesco Vezzoli...

Edited by Silvia Monaco

Walter Niedermayr. Bildraum 35, 30, 38, 36, 34/2007

The monumental composure of Milan’s Pirelli Tower

Pablo Bronstein. Branca Tower Ballet

Dance movements and fragments of architecture as choreographed by an Argentinian artist, in front of the tower of Sempione Park in Milan

Arturo Herrera. Villa Planchart, Caracas

A Venezuelan artist returns to where his mind’s eye left in search of art. Text by Friedrich Meschede

Tom Sandberg. Untitled (Ponti in Stockholm)

In Stockholm’s Italian Institute of Culture, an artist tackles the work of another artist in an attempt to penetrate and transform the multiple emotional and intellectual levels of architecture. Text by Torunn Liven

Luisa Lambri. Untitled (Convento del Carmelo), 2007; Untitled (Chiesa di San Luca Evangelista), 2007

How to transform architecture into mysterious images that float free of the usual associations. Text by Michael Webb

Mimmo Jodice. Visioni della Concattedrale Gran Madre di Dio, Taranto

Building a church is like rebuilding religion by giving it back its essence. Text by Walter Guadagnini

Intersections: Gio Ponti. A unique multitude

Edited by Stefano Casciani, Francesca Picchi. Graphic design by tomato – Simon Taylor, John Warwicker. Texts by Paolo Campiglio, Alberto Artioli, Federico Bucci, Manolo De Giorgi, Gabriele Basilico

Martin Parr. Villa Bouilhet, Garches

A private space that lets events, habits and tastes show through. Testo Quentin Bajac

Jeff Burton. Fondazione Livio e Maria Garzanti, Hotel de la Ville, Forlì; Piscina del Royal Hotel, Sanremo

Constructing desire: two Pontian places where humans leave architecture, furniture and details to dominate the stage. Text by Marcella Beccaria

Salvatore Licitra. Homeless / Desideri d’arredo

A visual recostruction of the objects designed by Ponti that are still in production. Text by Stefano Casciani

Francesco Vezzoli. Just what is it that makes today’s home so different, so appealing?

Interior-design magazine covers give us a fresh look at a designer of an upper-class designer. Text by Francesco Bonami

Martino Gamper. Gio Ponti translated by Martino Gamper

Between art and design, a personal “actionist” point of view on some original pieces from the Hotel Parco dei Principi. Text by Francesca Picchi

Tobias Rehberger. Gio Ponti in everyday life

A surreal comic book starring Ettore Sottsass and Gio Ponti. Text by Francesco Bonami

The Artists

Architectures described

A description of how Ponti designed the places that Domus has today assigned to artists of the photographic image. Text by Luigi Spinelli

Books

Everything about Ponti. Restoration of modernity. A Mediterranean in Scandinavia. Transatlantic nostalgia. When art falls in love with industry. Edited by Gianmario Andreani

Lisa Ponti

W, L’angelo abbraccia il mondo, Teatro, Lisa sull’isola, Senza titolo

Ettore Sottsass (1917-2007)

A memento through his pages of Domus