DOMUS 359
Ottobre 1959
Gio Ponti [Editorial Director]
Gio Ponti [Editorial Director]: DOMUS 359. Milan, Editoriale Domus: Ottobre 1959. Original edition. Text in Italian. English, German and French translation summary. Slim folio. Thick photo illustrated perfect bound wrappers. Side stitched textblock. 58 [xiv] pp. Articles and advertisements. Multiple paper stocks and inserts. Elaborate graphic design throughout. Cover by Enzo Mari. Wrappers lightly worn, but a very good or better copy.
9.75 x 12.75 vintage magazine with 58 [xiv] pages printed on a variety of paper stocks of black and white [and some color] examples of the best modern interior and industrial design, circa 1959 -- with beautiful engraving and gravure printing throughout.
- Casa Nei Bosco: Otto Kolb
- Casa a Long Island: Peter Blake
- Casa Nella Pineta: Gianemilio, Piero, Anna Monti
- Casa e Studio a Munster: Harald Deilmann
- Al Juneo Country Club a Caracas: Vittorio Garatti
- Unita a Continuita Negli Spazi Interni: Vittoriano Vigano
- Edizioni per Gli Architetti
- Maseherini a Parigi
- Fausto Melotti
- Nuove Sculture: Carlo Ramous
- Murano e Oslo: Venini E Korsmo
- Da Pesaro Nuovi Smalti: Franco Bucci, Giorgio Sgarzini
- Le Sculture da Viaggio: Bruno Munari
- Nuovi Speechi
- Camino per Una Villa: Gio Ponti
- Da Roma, Mobili Di Serie
- Mobili Componibili di Serie: Pierluigi Spadolini
- A Bari: T. M. Cirielli
- Nuovi Libri
- Notiziario delle Antiehita
- and more.
Long considered Europe's most influential architecture and design magazine, Domus was founded by Gio Ponti in 1928 as a "living diary" in which he could advertise his own work, outline the "aims" of his projects and raise people's awareness about other design issues. Called the "Mediterranean Megaphone, " Domus lauded mass-production and tried to link architecture and artisans in a new, unforeseen ways. Ponti left Domus in 1940 to start his other journal, Stile in which he could focus on art and the impact of the war on Italian architects and architecture. In 1948 Ponti returned to Domus, where he recast it in his own eclectic, exuberant vision of the modern and tirelessly championed designers he admired, notably Carlo Mollino.
In his 1957 book Amate L'Architettura (In Praise of Achitecture) Ponti extolled his audience to "Love architecture, be it ancient or modern. Love it for its fantastic, adventurous and solemn creations; for its inventions; for the abstract, allusive and figurative forms that enchant our spirit and enrapture our thoughts. Love architecture, the stage and support of our lives." This spirit reverberates through every page of Domus.