Domus staff selected over 20 gift ideas ranging from tech gadgets to architecture and design books, tableware, furniture pieces and online architecture courses. Browse our holiday gifting guide for 2018.
Domus gift guide 2018
The must-have architecture books, design pieces, records and accessories as selected by Domus staff.
Momentum True Wireless earphones by Sennheiser. Launched in Berlin during IFA 2018, these earphones are ultralight and water-resistant; they are made from plastic with a metal insert in the outer part with touch operation to control music playing, accept or decline calls and access vocal assistants.
Domus guift guide 2018
Momentum True Wireless earphones by Sennheiser. Launched in Berlin during IFA 2018, these earphones are ultralight and water-resistant; they are made from plastic with a metal insert in the outer part with touch operation to control music playing, accept or decline calls and access vocal assistants.
Domus guift guide 2018
Christmas is ideally a cocktail drunk from glassware by Argentinian designer Augustina Bottoni, in the gentle gas light of John Pawson’s Holocene No.4 gas lamp from Wästberg – preferably while wearing Dieter Rams’ bag for Frankfurt-based brand TSATSAS and eating Quality Street from a G3 Vessel by Shinya Yoshida.
Domus guift guide 2018
Christmas is ideally a cocktail drunk from glassware by Argentinian designer Augustina Bottoni, in the gentle gas light of John Pawson’s Holocene No.4 gas lamp from Wästberg – preferably while wearing Dieter Rams’ bag for Frankfurt-based brand TSATSAS and eating Quality Street from a G3 Vessel by Shinya Yoshida.
Domus guift guide 2018
Christmas is ideally a cocktail drunk from glassware by Argentinian designer Augustina Bottoni, in the gentle gas light of John Pawson’s Holocene No.4 gas lamp from Wästberg – preferably while wearing Dieter Rams’ bag for Frankfurt-based brand TSATSAS and eating Quality Street from a G3 Vessel by Shinya Yoshida.
Domus guift guide 2018
Umberto Riva by Gabriele Neri for Letteraventidue; Osvaldo Borsani by Giampiero Bosoni for Skira, 2018; Beauty by Stefan Sagmeister and Jessica Walsh for Phaidon, 2018. Chair Eutopia by Francisco Gomez Paz, self production, 2018 and Vitrail by Inga Sempè for Magis, 2018
Umberto Riva by Gabriele Neri for Letteraventidue; Osvaldo Borsani by Giampiero Bosoni for Skira, 2018; Beauty by Stefan Sagmeister and Jessica Walsh for Phaidon, 2018. Chair Eutopia by Francisco Gomez Paz, self production, 2018 and Vitrail by Inga Sempè for Magis, 2018
Umberto Riva by Gabriele Neri for Letteraventidue; Osvaldo Borsani by Giampiero Bosoni for Skira, 2018; Beauty by Stefan Sagmeister and Jessica Walsh for Phaidon, 2018. Chair Eutopia by Francisco Gomez Paz, self production, 2018 and Vitrail by Inga Sempè for Magis, 2018
Umberto Riva by Gabriele Neri for Letteraventidue; Osvaldo Borsani by Giampiero Bosoni for Skira, 2018; Beauty by Stefan Sagmeister and Jessica Walsh for Phaidon, 2018. Chair Eutopia by Francisco Gomez Paz, self production, 2018 and Vitrail by Inga Sempè for Magis, 2018
Herb Lubalin: American Graphic Designer 1918-1981. Or more simply “Herb Lubalin” is the title of a book for those hungry for graphics... Released in 2012 in a limited edition by Unit Editions, it went off the rails and was almost immediately sold out, giving rise to the usual sale on Amazon and Ebay of copies at absurd prices. The book collects the super-prolific work of one of the greatest protagonists of graphic design on the centenary of his birth, still for a few days. Here the Kickstarter campaign to republish it.
Click Here to see the campaign on Kickstarter
After two years of workshops with children from all over the world and having collected, listened to and realized their ideas, Dominic Wilcox collects his “method’ in a small illustrated guide where everything seems not only possible, but also easy. To solve small and big problems, improve a prduct thinking about who will use it, have brilliant ideas or face new discoveries: nothing is impossible for the British designer and his ‘little’ inventors. The important thing, he explains, is to have self-confidence.
Dominic Wilcox, Little Inventors
After two years of workshops with children from all over the world and having collected, listened to and realized their ideas, Dominic Wilcox collects his “method’ in a small illustrated guide where everything seems not only possible, but also easy. To solve small and big problems, improve a prduct thinking about who will use it, have brilliant ideas or face new discoveries: nothing is impossible for the British designer and his ‘little’ inventors. The important thing, he explains, is to have self-confidence.
Design: Vignelli by Beatriz Cifuentes, edited by Electa in 2018. The book pays tribute to Vignelli’s multidisciplinary approach, from integrated corporate identity projects for prestigious brands to the iconic map created for the New York subway.
Design: Vignelli by Beatriz Cifuentes
Book: Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, 2017. The book by Indian writer Amitav Ghosh is a little gem about how we think about cities, geography and climate and what are the right “words to talk about it”. Product: I don’t want any object this year. So no suggestions. I can easily say that I love design and many of its authors: it’s just a modest attempt to become a little wise.
Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, 2017
Create a playful atmosphere with the Mouse Lamp collection by Italian designer Marcantonio for Seletti: one can’t go alone, so you must have all three little mices. Holiday readings: The Cannibal’s cookbook by Brandon Clifford published by MIT Press in 2017, a manual on how to build "Cyclopean architecture", with excellent graphics. Discover Venice guided by Hugo Pratt: Corto Maltese Guide to Venice, published by Casterman, with text and drawings by Lele Vianello e Guido Fuga.
Create a playful atmosphere with the Mouse Lamp collection by Italian designer Marcantonio for Seletti: one can’t go alone, so you must have all three little mices. Holiday readings: The Cannibal’s cookbook by Brandon Clifford published by MIT Press in 2017, a manual on how to build "Cyclopean architecture", with excellent graphics. Discover Venice guided by Hugo Pratt: Corto Maltese Guide to Venice, published by Casterman, with text and drawings by Lele Vianello e Guido Fuga.
Create a playful atmosphere with the Mouse Lamp collection by Italian designer Marcantonio for Seletti: one can’t go alone, so you must have all three little mices. Holiday readings: The Cannibal’s cookbook by Brandon Clifford published by MIT Press in 2017, a manual on how to build "Cyclopean architecture", with excellent graphics. Discover Venice guided by Hugo Pratt: Corto Maltese Guide to Venice, published by Casterman, with text and drawings by Lele Vianello e Guido Fuga.
Two radically different smart writing solutions. For paper lovers, Moleskine proposes its new smart pen, the Ellipse, and its dedicated notebooks, that “sync” to the smartphone, tablet and Windows 10 apps, so drawings and notes will have a digital backup. reMarkable, instead, is an electronic paper device with a 10” display that can be used to read, annotate documents, draw and hardwrite notes – which can be easily converted to typed text. The monochrome e-ink screen resembles that of a Kindle, and offers a paper feeling on a tablet.
Two radically different smart writing solutions. For paper lovers, Moleskine proposes its new smart pen, the Ellipse, and its dedicated notebooks, that “sync” to the smartphone, tablet and Windows 10 apps, so drawings and notes will have a digital backup. reMarkable, instead, is an electronic paper device with a 10” display that can be used to read, annotate documents, draw and hardwrite notes – which can be easily converted to typed text. The monochrome e-ink screen resembles that of a Kindle, and offers a paper feeling on a tablet.
I will suggest two records that I love. One is Invisible Threads by British improviser and composer John Surman, released in 2018 by ECM 2588. The second album is 1970 by Israeli double-bassist-composer-vocalist Avishai Cohen produced by Sony Classical Records.
I will suggest two records that I love. One is Invisible Threads by British improviser and composer John Surman, released in 2018 by ECM 2588. The second album is 1970 by Israeli double-bassist-composer-vocalist Avishai Cohen produced by Sony Classical Records.
Two classics of design, one is the book The psychology of everyday things by Donald A. Norman published in 1988; the second one is the Nessie ladle by Ototo design, a kitchenware must-have.
Two classics of design, one is the book The psychology of everyday things by Donald A. Norman published in 1988; the second one is the Nessie ladle by Ototo design, a kitchenware must-have.
An online course on architecture and design by Frank Gehry (www.masterclass.com/classes/frank-gehry-teaches-design-and-architecture). Product: La Cupola, moka designed by Aldo Rossi for Alessi in 1988. Books: Atlas of Brutalist Architecture published by Phaidon this year, Living in the Desert by Phaidon Editors. Kids: Caterpillar to Butterfly Kit, to build your own insectarium.
An online course on architecture and design by Frank Gehry (www.masterclass.com/classes/frank-gehry-teaches-design-and-architecture). Product: La Cupola, moka designed by Aldo Rossi for Alessi in 1988. Books: Atlas of Brutalist Architecture published by Phaidon this year, Living in the Desert by Phaidon Editors. Kids: Caterpillar to Butterfly Kit, to build your own insectarium.
An online course on architecture and design by Frank Gehry (www.masterclass.com/classes/frank-gehry-teaches-design-and-architecture). Product: La Cupola, moka designed by Aldo Rossi for Alessi in 1988. Books: Atlas of Brutalist Architecture published by Phaidon this year, Living in the Desert by Phaidon Editors. Kids: Caterpillar to Butterfly Kit, to build your own insectarium.
An online course on architecture and design by Frank Gehry (www.masterclass.com/classes/frank-gehry-teaches-design-and-architecture). Product: La Cupola, moka designed by Aldo Rossi for Alessi in 1988. Books: Atlas of Brutalist Architecture published by Phaidon this year, Living in the Desert by Phaidon Editors. Kids: Caterpillar to Butterfly Kit, to build your own insectarium.
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- 14 December 2018
Selected by Giulia Guzzini, Domus Product Editor
Momentum True Wireless earphones by Sennheiser. Launched in Berlin during IFA 2018, these earphones are ultralight and water-resistant; they are made from plastic with a metal insert in the outer part with touch operation to control music playing, accept or decline calls and access vocal assistants.
Giulia Guzzini, Domus Product Editor
Momentum True Wireless earphones by Sennheiser. Launched in Berlin during IFA 2018, these earphones are ultralight and water-resistant; they are made from plastic with a metal insert in the outer part with touch operation to control music playing, accept or decline calls and access vocal assistants.
Jessica Mairs, Domusweb Architecture Editor
Christmas is ideally a cocktail drunk from glassware by Argentinian designer Augustina Bottoni, in the gentle gas light of John Pawson’s Holocene No.4 gas lamp from Wästberg – preferably while wearing Dieter Rams’ bag for Frankfurt-based brand TSATSAS and eating Quality Street from a G3 Vessel by Shinya Yoshida.
Selected by Jessica Mairs, Domusweb Architecture Editor
Christmas is ideally a cocktail drunk from glassware by Argentinian designer Augustina Bottoni, in the gentle gas light of John Pawson’s Holocene No.4 gas lamp from Wästberg – preferably while wearing Dieter Rams’ bag for Frankfurt-based brand TSATSAS and eating Quality Street from a G3 Vessel by Shinya Yoshida.
Jessica Mairs, Domusweb Architecture Editor
Christmas is ideally a cocktail drunk from glassware by Argentinian designer Augustina Bottoni, in the gentle gas light of John Pawson’s Holocene No.4 gas lamp from Wästberg – preferably while wearing Dieter Rams’ bag for Frankfurt-based brand TSATSAS and eating Quality Street from a G3 Vessel by Shinya Yoshida.
Selected by Loredana Mascheroni, Domus Supplements
Umberto Riva by Gabriele Neri for Letteraventidue; Osvaldo Borsani by Giampiero Bosoni for Skira, 2018; Beauty by Stefan Sagmeister and Jessica Walsh for Phaidon, 2018. Chair Eutopia by Francisco Gomez Paz, self production, 2018 and Vitrail by Inga Sempè for Magis, 2018
Selected by Loredana Mascheroni, Domus Supplements
Umberto Riva by Gabriele Neri for Letteraventidue; Osvaldo Borsani by Giampiero Bosoni for Skira, 2018; Beauty by Stefan Sagmeister and Jessica Walsh for Phaidon, 2018. Chair Eutopia by Francisco Gomez Paz, self production, 2018 and Vitrail by Inga Sempè for Magis, 2018
Selected by Loredana Mascheroni, Domus Supplements
Umberto Riva by Gabriele Neri for Letteraventidue; Osvaldo Borsani by Giampiero Bosoni for Skira, 2018; Beauty by Stefan Sagmeister and Jessica Walsh for Phaidon, 2018. Chair Eutopia by Francisco Gomez Paz, self production, 2018 and Vitrail by Inga Sempè for Magis, 2018
Selected by Loredana Mascheroni, Domus Supplements
Umberto Riva by Gabriele Neri for Letteraventidue; Osvaldo Borsani by Giampiero Bosoni for Skira, 2018; Beauty by Stefan Sagmeister and Jessica Walsh for Phaidon, 2018. Chair Eutopia by Francisco Gomez Paz, self production, 2018 and Vitrail by Inga Sempè for Magis, 2018
Selected by Giuseppe Basile, Domus Art Director
Herb Lubalin: American Graphic Designer 1918-1981. Or more simply “Herb Lubalin” is the title of a book for those hungry for graphics... Released in 2012 in a limited edition by Unit Editions, it went off the rails and was almost immediately sold out, giving rise to the usual sale on Amazon and Ebay of copies at absurd prices. The book collects the super-prolific work of one of the greatest protagonists of graphic design on the centenary of his birth, still for a few days. Here the Kickstarter campaign to republish it.
Selected by Elena Sommariva, Domus Newsroom
After two years of workshops with children from all over the world and having collected, listened to and realized their ideas, Dominic Wilcox collects his “method’ in a small illustrated guide where everything seems not only possible, but also easy. To solve small and big problems, improve a prduct thinking about who will use it, have brilliant ideas or face new discoveries: nothing is impossible for the British designer and his ‘little’ inventors. The important thing, he explains, is to have self-confidence.
Selected by Elena Sommariva, Domus Newsroom
After two years of workshops with children from all over the world and having collected, listened to and realized their ideas, Dominic Wilcox collects his “method’ in a small illustrated guide where everything seems not only possible, but also easy. To solve small and big problems, improve a prduct thinking about who will use it, have brilliant ideas or face new discoveries: nothing is impossible for the British designer and his ‘little’ inventors. The important thing, he explains, is to have self-confidence.
Selected by Cristina Moro, Domus Archive
Design: Vignelli by Beatriz Cifuentes, edited by Electa in 2018. The book pays tribute to Vignelli’s multidisciplinary approach, from integrated corporate identity projects for prestigious brands to the iconic map created for the New York subway.
Selected by Simona Bordone, Domus Special Projects
Book: Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, 2017. The book by Indian writer Amitav Ghosh is a little gem about how we think about cities, geography and climate and what are the right “words to talk about it”. Product: I don’t want any object this year. So no suggestions. I can easily say that I love design and many of its authors: it’s just a modest attempt to become a little wise.
Selected by Marianna Guernieri, Domusweb Editor
Create a playful atmosphere with the Mouse Lamp collection by Italian designer Marcantonio for Seletti: one can’t go alone, so you must have all three little mices. Holiday readings: The Cannibal’s cookbook by Brandon Clifford published by MIT Press in 2017, a manual on how to build "Cyclopean architecture", with excellent graphics. Discover Venice guided by Hugo Pratt: Corto Maltese Guide to Venice, published by Casterman, with text and drawings by Lele Vianello e Guido Fuga.
Marianna Guernieri, Domusweb Editor
Create a playful atmosphere with the Mouse Lamp collection by Italian designer Marcantonio for Seletti: one can’t go alone, so you must have all three little mices. Holiday readings: The Cannibal’s cookbook by Brandon Clifford published by MIT Press in 2017, a manual on how to build "Cyclopean architecture", with excellent graphics. Discover Venice guided by Hugo Pratt: Corto Maltese Guide to Venice, published by Casterman, with text and drawings by Lele Vianello e Guido Fuga.
Marianna Guernieri, Domusweb Editor
Create a playful atmosphere with the Mouse Lamp collection by Italian designer Marcantonio for Seletti: one can’t go alone, so you must have all three little mices. Holiday readings: The Cannibal’s cookbook by Brandon Clifford published by MIT Press in 2017, a manual on how to build "Cyclopean architecture", with excellent graphics. Discover Venice guided by Hugo Pratt: Corto Maltese Guide to Venice, published by Casterman, with text and drawings by Lele Vianello e Guido Fuga.
Selected by Alessandro Scarano, Domusweb, Domusweb, Consumer Goods web editor
Two radically different smart writing solutions. For paper lovers, Moleskine proposes its new smart pen, the Ellipse, and its dedicated notebooks, that “sync” to the smartphone, tablet and Windows 10 apps, so drawings and notes will have a digital backup. reMarkable, instead, is an electronic paper device with a 10” display that can be used to read, annotate documents, draw and hardwrite notes – which can be easily converted to typed text. The monochrome e-ink screen resembles that of a Kindle, and offers a paper feeling on a tablet.
Selected by Alessandro Scarano, Domusweb, Consumer Goods web editor
Two radically different smart writing solutions. For paper lovers, Moleskine proposes its new smart pen, the Ellipse, and its dedicated notebooks, that “sync” to the smartphone, tablet and Windows 10 apps, so drawings and notes will have a digital backup. reMarkable, instead, is an electronic paper device with a 10” display that can be used to read, annotate documents, draw and hardwrite notes – which can be easily converted to typed text. The monochrome e-ink screen resembles that of a Kindle, and offers a paper feeling on a tablet.
Selected by Miranda Giardino, Domus Coordinator
I will suggest two records that I love. One is Invisible Threads by British improviser and composer John Surman, released in 2018 by ECM 2588. The second album is 1970 by Israeli double-bassist-composer-vocalist Avishai Cohen produced by Sony Classical Records.
Selected by Miranda Giardino, Domus Coordinator
I will suggest two records that I love. One is Invisible Threads by British improviser and composer John Surman, released in 2018 by ECM 2588. The second album is 1970 by Israeli double-bassist-composer-vocalist Avishai Cohen produced by Sony Classical Records.
Selected by Franco Miragliotta, Graphic department
Two classics of design, one is the book The psychology of everyday things by Donald A. Norman published in 1988; the second one is the Nessie ladle by Ototo design, a kitchenware must-have.
Selected by Franco Miragliotta, Graphic department
Two classics of design, one is the book The psychology of everyday things by Donald A. Norman published in 1988; the second one is the Nessie ladle by Ototo design, a kitchenware must-have.
Giulia Ricci, Domus Newsroom
An online course on architecture and design by Frank Gehry (www.masterclass.com/classes/frank-gehry-teaches-design-and-architecture). Product: La Cupola, moka designed by Aldo Rossi for Alessi in 1988. Books: Atlas of Brutalist Architecture published by Phaidon this year, Living in the Desert by Phaidon Editors. Kids: Caterpillar to Butterfly Kit, to build your own insectarium.
Selected by Giulia Ricci, Domus Newsroom
An online course on architecture and design by Frank Gehry (www.masterclass.com/classes/frank-gehry-teaches-design-and-architecture). Product: La Cupola, moka designed by Aldo Rossi for Alessi in 1988. Books: Atlas of Brutalist Architecture published by Phaidon this year, Living in the Desert by Phaidon Editors. Kids: Caterpillar to Butterfly Kit, to build your own insectarium.
Selected by Giulia Ricci, Domus Newsroom
An online course on architecture and design by Frank Gehry (www.masterclass.com/classes/frank-gehry-teaches-design-and-architecture). Product: La Cupola, moka designed by Aldo Rossi for Alessi in 1988. Books: Atlas of Brutalist Architecture published by Phaidon this year, Living in the Desert by Phaidon Editors. Kids: Caterpillar to Butterfly Kit, to build your own insectarium.
Giulia Ricci, Domus Newsroom
An online course on architecture and design by Frank Gehry (www.masterclass.com/classes/frank-gehry-teaches-design-and-architecture). Product: La Cupola, moka designed by Aldo Rossi for Alessi in 1988. Books: Atlas of Brutalist Architecture published by Phaidon this year, Living in the Desert by Phaidon Editors. Kids: Caterpillar to Butterfly Kit, to build your own insectarium.