Milan Interiors 1928-1978

700 pages, Italian/English

“Nelle Case. Milan interiors 1928-1978” composes a story hinged on two registers. The first, immediate, is the iconographic composition, which makes the book a rich repertoire of period photographs – coming to a large extent from Archivio Domus and Casali archive – then joined by original redrawings of the houses presented, and contemporary photographs for some of them.
Starting from the title, the book identifies an essential date in the Milanese architectural season: 1928, the year in which, as the authors make explicit, the advent on the cultural scene of the magazines Domus and La Casa Bella resulted in a decidedly unique energy generator for architecture. From this date, the book takes us through 50 years of transformations, stopping right before the explosion of post-modernism. The photos of the Milanese interiors tell of a city that deals with the continuous evolution of society, reminding us of how the design of interior spaces, the arrangement of objects, and the relationship with the city, determined the design of houses.