domus 19401949 [Hardcover]

Founded in 1928 as a living diary by the great Milanese architect and designer Gio Ponti,domushas been hailed asthe worlds most influential architecture and design journal. With style and rigor, it has reported on the major themes and stylistic movements in industrial, interior, product, and structural design.

This fresh reprint ofdomus coverage of the 1940s brings together the most important features from adecade of destruction and reconstruction. Even amid the bombing raids inflicted on Milan,domuscontinued to publish through much of the war, charting the design zeitgeist, while managing a successive turnover of editors and editors-in-chief during Pontis interregnum between 1941 and 1948.

The pages from this period record reports and features on modern industrial design and furniture,new prefabricated houses,American academic architecture, the building projects ofCarlo Mollino,Gian Luigi Banfi,Franco Albini, andGiuseppe Terragni, as well as the postwar flowering ofOrganic Design.

domus distilledSeven volumes spanning 1928 to 1999 Over 4,000 pages featuring influential projects by the most important designers and architects Original layouts and all covers, with captions providing navigation and context Introductory essays by renowned architects and designers Each edition comes with an appendix featuring texts translated into English, many of which were previously only available in Italian A comprehensive index in each volume listing both designers and manufacturers names