{"product_id":"domus-19401949-9783836593830","title":"domus 1940–1949","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFounded in 1928 as a \"living diary\" by the great Milanese architect and designer Gio Ponti, \u003cem\u003edomus\u003c\/em\u003e has been hailed as \u003cb\u003ethe world's most influential architecture and design journal\u003c\/b\u003e. With style and rigour, it has reported on the major themes and stylistic movements in industrial, interior, product, and structural design.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis fresh reprint of \u003cem\u003edomus\u003c\/em\u003e' coverage of the 1940s brings together the most important features from a \u003cb\u003edecade of destruction and reconstruction\u003c\/b\u003e. Even amid the bombing raids inflicted on Milan, \u003cem\u003edomus\u003c\/em\u003e continued to publish through much of the war, charting the design zeitgeist, while managing a successive turnover of editors and editors-in-chief during Ponti's \"interregnum\" between 1941 and 1948.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe pages from this period record reports and features on modern industrial design and furniture, \u003cb\u003enew prefabricated houses\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eAmerican academic architecture\u003c\/b\u003e, the building projects of \u003cb\u003eCarlo Mollino\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eGian Luigi Banfi\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eFranco Albini\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eGiuseppe Terragni\u003c\/b\u003e, as well as the postwar flowering of \u003cb\u003eOrganic Design\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003edomus distilled\u003c\/b\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eSeven volumes spanning 1928 to 1999\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eOver 4,000 pages featuring influential projects by the most important designers and architects\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eOriginal layouts and all covers, with captions providing navigation and context\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eIntroductory essays by renowned architects and designers\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eEach edition comes with an appendix featuring texts translated into English, many of which were previously only available in Italian\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eA comprehensive index in each volume listing both designers' and manufacturers' names\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596289130732,"sku":"9783836593830","price":92.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9783836593830-domus-1940-1949.jpg?v=1777919135","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/domus-19401949-9783836593830","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}