Alberto Ponis and the story of a house in Costa Paradiso
In 2015, the architect of modern Sardinia told Domus the story of his Casa Scalesciani, created in the 1970s to translate a panorama and a cliff into a living experience.
A conversation with Bruno Sacco (1933-2024), who made Mercedes look like Mercedes
Identity and continuity: in 1986 Domus met the Italian designer behind legendary models such as the S-class and SL spiders, to discover how the soul of a brand is born and renewed.
Ettore Sottsass’ psychedelic (and televised) epiphanies in New York
In 1969, the “whipped cream mémoires” the designer used to write for Domus landed in the United States, and an anarchically functioning TV was enough to open up new glimpses into our visual culture.
Norman Foster’s tower for Barcelona, from the Domus archive
Manifesta 2024’s Barcelona is represented by the post-industrial seaside chimneys; 1992 Olympic Barcelona identified instead in an infrastructure embodying innovation and attention to landscape.
Gaetano Pesce (1939 - 2024)
An Italian master of design, adopted New Yorker, we remember the multifaceted artist through Domus articles and interviews.
The ideal home of a fashion editor: Irene Brin for Domus
Not only architects: a journalist, a star on the mid-century Rome scene, before becoming the first Italian editor for Harper’s Bazaar, Irene Brin was also invited by Domus to narrate a house conceived for herself.
A portrait of the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, at its debut on Domus
“Not neo-Classicism, but rather an essential classical quality”: in 1969, on the death of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Domus presented his recently completed masterpiece in the words of Agnoldomenico Pica.
Costantino Nivola’s inhabited art
A sculptor with Le Corbusier, an art director for Olivetti, summoner of places from single objects, Sardinian roots and global outlook. Domus portrayed the total artist in 1952, starting from his garden-home on Long Island
The early days of Malpensa, a designer’s airport
Before its recent dedication to the memory of Silvio Berlusconi, and the transformations at the turn of the millennium, Milan's intercontinental airport had been an essay in modern Italian interior design and architecture, as Domus reported in 1959.
La Bussola: an Italian coast legend from the Domus archive
In 1949 Domus published a beach club, a future symbol of Italian summer and international music: Aretha Franklin, James Brown and Mina would shine from the stage, while the original design was by Baroni, Tempestini and Porcinai.