Domus 925 – Cover
May 2009 - design by onlab
Creative Direction and Concept: Nicolas Bourquin & Sven Ehmann; Graphic Design: Nicolas Bourquin, Christoph Gabriel
Cover picture: Geoffrey Cottenceau and Romain Rousset
Publisher: Editoriale Domus, Milan, Italy

© Photo: Geoffrey Cottenceau and Romain Rousset, title: "Bedoin" from the series "Bill & Co"
"My room is a fantastic ship with which I can make adventurous trips that are worthy of a headstrong adventurer."
Giorgio De Chirico
Cover Story, issue 925, Francesca Picchi
Our cover portrays a Bedouin sitting on the back of a make-believe dromedary put together with the bits and pieces of an improvised set of furniture (trestles piled on top of school chairs) and combined with sophisticated sartorial details. The picture could be an emblem of the burning nostalgia for a lost (or maybe never fully realised) condition.
The desert, the endless silence and infinate horizon of open spaces, the company of transhumant grazing animals, or other more exotic ones, are all part of this evocation of an imaginary faraway place.
The desert, the endless silence and infinate horizon of open spaces, the company of transhumant grazing animals, or other more exotic ones, are all part of this evocation of an imaginary faraway place.
Cover & Wrapping

"Clear up your living room! Clear up your life too!"
Archizoom, 1968
Contemporary design vaciillates between luxury, good taste and Calvinistic doctrine. It conceives of interiors where the typically bourgeois image of comfort becomes blurred in a variety of styles.