Domus 1940-1949

Founded in 1928 as a “living diary” of the great Milanese architect and designer Gio Ponti, domus has been acclaimed as the world’s most influential architecture and design magazine. With style and rigor, it has reported on the main themes and stylistic movements in industrial, interior, product, and structural design. This new reprint of domus's coverage of the 1940s brings together the most important features of a decade of destruction and reconstruction. Even amidst the bombings inflicted on Milan, domus continued to publish for much of the war, tracing the spirit of the design era, while managing a successive rotation of editors and editors-in-chief during Ponti's "interregnum" between 1941 and 1948.

The pages of this period record reports and articles on modern industrial design and furniture, new prefabricated houses, American academic architecture, the construction projects of Carlo Mollino, Gian Luigi Banfi, Franco Albini, and Giuseppe Terragni, as well as the post-war flourishing of Organic Design. domus distilledSeven volumes spanning from 1928 to 1999More than 4,000 pages featuring influential projects by the most important designers and architects

Original layouts and all covers, with captions that provide navigation and context.

Introductory essays by renowned architects and designers.

Each edition comes with an appendix with texts translated into English, many of which were previously only available in Italian.

A comprehensive index in each volume listing the names of designers and manufacturers.