“There are adolescences that flare up at the age of ninety,” writes the poetess Alda Merini, a woman who knew many things about time and the way it seduces. Domus is proof that Merini is right. Youth is not only biological, destined to disappear in a brief change of seasons. Youth is also spiritual, an attitude by which we persist in seeing the world with wonder, surprise and a sense of discovery.– Walter Mariotti on the special 90 anni of Domus
Img.1 Furniture made in unbreakable glass Vit-Rex, a name devised by Benito Mussolini, 1933
Img.2 Tomaso Buzzi's drawing of a radio as a singing muse. Unside-down, a man with a rasping voice, 1933
Img.4 Vermeil and porcelain cutlery by Luigi Caccia Dominioni and the Castiglioni brothers, 1940
Img.5 The living room of the architect Franco Albini, furnished with his Veliero bookcase, 1941
Img.6 Structure for a circular stool by Alvar Aalto for the Viipuri Municipal Library, 1947
Img.7 Pier Luigi Nervi used prefabricated elements for the vaults of the Turin Motor Show, 1948
Img.8 Two chimney stacks seen through the access tunnel to the terrace at l'Unité d'Habitation by Le Corbusier in Marseille, 1950