Current Issue: Domus 924

Cover

Photo onlab

Editorial

Flavio Albanese. Fashion & design

News, events, competitions, projects

Edited by Elena Sommariva

Carol Christian Poell

The portrait of an outsider in the fashion world. Design Carol Christian Poell. Text Elena Sommariva. Photos Reed Young, Deepti

Thom Browne

In Florence, the American designer’s fashions enter a dialogue with Raffaello Fagnoni’s modernist architecture. Text Maria Luisa Frisa. Photos Dan & Corina Lecca, Angelo Teardo (stills)

Slow Loom

A conversation with Giovanni Bonotto, passionate semiologist and fabric maker. Design Giovanni Bonotto. Text Maria Cristina Tommasini. Photos Donato Di Bello

Academy of fashion, Jaipur

An iconic building in an anonymous suburb of Jaipur. Design Morphogenesis. Text Jagan Shah. Photos Edmund Sumner

Under Mexican skies

A home/studio/gallery for art conceived as a meteorological sculpture. Design Tatiana Bilbao with at 103 / Francisco Pardo, Julio Amezcua. Text Stefano Casciani. Photos Iwan Baan

Chance, chaos and order

The reconstruction of a neighbourhood in a town on the Dutch-German border. Design Cino Zucchi Architetti with Visser van Aalderen Architecten. Text Stefano Casciani. Photos Allard van der Hoek

Chapel, Chosen Children Village

A small church in the Philippine countryside. Design Stan Allen Architect. Text David van der Leer. Photos Marvin Dungao

Public housing, Gran Canaria

A public housing project and the creative performance of its residents. Design Romera y Ruiz Arquitectos. Text Laura Bossi. Photos Juan Correa, Jorge Hernández

Sipoo high school and IT college, Finland

A rural school offers both street credibility and domesticity. Design K2S Architects. Text Tarja Nurmi. Photos Marko Huttunen

Architectural atelier in Madrid

A camouflaged atelier among the trees. Design Selgascano. Text Laura Bossi. Photos Iwan Baan

Domus forum design

Design during the Crisis. Graphic design and photography Onlab. Texts G. Cappellini, F. Casoli, Clino Castelli, Gabriele Centazzo, V. Di Bussolo, P. Fantoni, A. Gortani, C. Guglielmi, A. Guzzini, A. Margaritelli, A. Medda, R. Messina, E. Perazza, R. Preti, M. Ribotti.

Blown - Fabric lanterns

Lamps as light as a puff of air. Design & text Nendo. Photos Masayuki Hayashi

Murano glass: a second life

An original recycling operation. Design Lorenzo Damiani. Text Maria Cristina Tommasini. Photos Bruno Barovier, Lorenzo Damiani, Fabio Fornasier, Federico Pezzini

Luca’s bar

New objects designed by Luca Nichetto. Design Luca Nichetto. Text Loredana Mascheroni. Photos Massimo Gardone

Textile sushi

The fascination of different cultures in the design of a furniture collection. Design Edward Van Vliet. Text Loredana Mascheroni

The Eternal Return

Notes for the Venice Art Biennale 2009. Edited by Daniel Birnbaum

Tapis-à-porter

Bodily expression and interactive devices in Paola Anziché’s research. Design Paola Anziché. Text Francesca Picchi. Photos Paola Anziché, Endstart

Shirana Shahbazi

The intense realism and conceptual vigour in the Iranian artist’s still lifes. Design Shirana Shahbazi. Text Camilla Pignatti Morano

Stefano Tonchi

A publishing parable in the cocktail of fashion and magazines. Text Francesco Bonami illustration Choi Ho Chul

Arte di moda

Art and fashion and the integration of artists into global fashion communication. Text Frédéric Bonnet

Ledray: mens suits

Suits that talk about the human condition and its contradictions. Design Charles Ledray. Text Michele Robecchi

Domus moda: back to the future

The affinities between custom, fashion on the pages of Alessandro Mendini’s Domus moda. Texts Stefano Casciani, Luigi Spinelli. Photos Archivi Domus

Moho design

Transparent Geometries

Senseware

Fashion anatomy

Clothing as an imprint of a thought that moulds the body. Graphic design onlab with Klas Ernflo. Illustrations Klas Ernflo. Edited by Maria Luisa Frisa, Rita Capezzuto. Texts Maria Luisa Frisa, Paola Colaiacomo, Fabio Cleto, Simona Segre Reinach

Society and fashion

Clothes and bodies filmed live. Fashion and Modernity. A socio-semeiotic object. Edited by Gianmario Andreani

Rassegna: Forniture

New projects for the Milan Furniture Fair. Edited by Maria Cristina Tommasini