A horse stars on the front cover for the new domus
redesigned by onlab

The Arabian horse on the cover has undergone a surgical intervention, and the protector hood on its face (which makes it look like a boxer about to climb into the ring) prevents it from injuring itself during the recovery period. The photo is part of the Masks series, in which the photographer investigates the ambiguity of man-made contrivances created for horses: from respiratory measurement masks to protection in a stricter sense (from insects, collisions, the cold, etc.) Nicolas Bourquin and Sven Ehmann, onlab's two creative directors, say they chose this image not only for its mysterious air, but also because to them the horse seems to be the perfect transposition into an image of the term "vigorous", often used by the editor Flavio Albanese to describe his idea of Domus. If vigour refers to the "vital strength of every living organism", the task which the magazine has set for itself is to trace a sort of diagram of this vitality within the flow of things. According to them, "The racehorse is elegant, strong and highly 'professional', though nevertheless wild at heart."