DOMUS 363
Febbraio 1960
Gio Ponti [Editorial Director]
Gio Ponti [Editorial Director]: DOMUS 363. Milan, Editoriale Domus: Febbraio 1960. Original edition. Text in Italian. English, German and French translation summary. Slim folio. Thick photo illustrated perfect bound wrappers. Side stitched textblock. 64 [vi] pp. Articles and advertisements. Multiple paper stocks and inserts. Elaborate graphic design throughout. Cover by Giorgio Casali. Wrappers lightly worn, but a very good copy.
9.5 x 12.75 magazine with 64 [vi] pages (printed on a variety of paper stocks) of color and black and white examples of the best modern interior and industrial design, circa 1960 -- with beautiful color engraving and gravure printing throughout.
- Padua Industrial Building: Angelo Mangiarotti & Bruno Morassutti. 12 pages in color and black and white
- Arenzano House: Vico Magistretti. 18 pages in color and black and white
- Po River Inn: Giorgio Host Ivessich
- Lisbon Mill: Eduardo Anahory
- Lorenzo Guerrini
- Salvatore Fiume’s Studio
- Fabbri Bronzes
- Grafitto and Sculptured Walls: Constantino Nivola
- Forms and Ideas: Tapio Wirkkala. 5 pages in color and black and white
- Three New Armchairs
- Italian Airlines Office: Tonino M. Cirielli
- Bertrum Green
- Eugenio Carmi
- Full page Olivetti Diaspron 82 color ad on back cover.
- 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 Architecture) 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.