Domus 461, April 1968

Director Gio Ponti

Content includes:
Competitions and congresses – architecture and industrial design
Book – Agnoldomenico Pica
Vienna – Friedrich Kurrent, Johannes Spalt
Madrid – José Antonio Coderch
Milan – Gregotti, Meneghetti, Stoppino
Oslo – Sverre Fehn
An American dream – Richard Meier
Spring – new furniture by Knoll International
Exhibitions in London – Joseph Rykwert
Looking forward to the 2000 – A. and P.G. Castiglioni
Amsterdam – Kho Liang le
Something at Cologne – new design at the furniture fair
The cube free – Albert Leclerc
A bulb in a bulb – Ingo Maurer
New work by Gino Marotta – Tommaso Trini
Exhibitions in Turin, Genoa, Milan – Tommaso Trini
Books – Guido Ballo
Mario Negri sculptor – Agnoldomenico Pica
Le musée d’art de Lodz, Pologne – Pierre Restany
Books – Agnoldomenico Pica
Cover: A scene of the ballet « Work in Progress » designed by Alexander Calder and staged in Roma at the Teatro dell’ Opera in March. Photograph by Ugo Mulas.

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Alexander Calder
Alexander Calder, born in 1898, was an American sculptor and a member of an artistic family, his father was a sculptor, and his mother and grandfather were accomplished artists. Calder is best known for his wire sculptures and mobile artwork, which is a form of kinetic art that achieves balance and movement through precise weighting and suspension. Explore related designers including Fernand Léger and Jean Arp. See also Constructivism and 1930s graphic design history.
Domus
Domus is an Italian architecture and design magazine founded in 1928, documenting modernist architecture, interior design, and applied arts across the twentieth century.

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Domus 461, April 1968 Cover artwork by Alexander Calder
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