domus 1950-1959

Founded in 1928 as a “living diary” of the great Milanese architect and designer Gio Ponti, domus has been hailed 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 1950s brings together the most important features from an era of postwar optimism. As memories of the conflict faded, architecture and design sought new forms, materials, and applications, as well as a growing international dialogue. Highlights include Le Corbusier’s design of the United Nations building in New York; Charles and Ray Eames’s Case Study Houses; Richard Neutra in California, Olivetti office machines, furniture by Ray and Charles Eames, ceramics and tables by Ettore Sottsass, and Alexander Girard’s Herman Miller Showroom in San Francisco.