{{Short description|Italian product design magazine}} {{italic title}} thumb|Casabella Mondadori Logo '''''Casabella''''' is a monthly Italian architectural and product design magazine with a focus on modern, radical design and architecture. It includes interviews with the world's most prominent architects.
==History and profile== Casabella was founded in 1928<ref name=mon/><ref name=annm>{{cite journal|author=AnnMarie Brennan|title=Instrument of Industrial Modernization to Cultural Platform: A glimpse at the use of architecture in some Italian magazines, 1937-1965|journal=Proceedings of the XXVIIIth SAHANZ Annual Conference|date=July 2011|url=https://www.academia.edu/2381622/Instrument_of_Industrial_Modernization_to_Cultural_Platform_A_glimpse_at_the_use_of_architecture_in_some_Italian_magazines_1937-1965|accessdate=21 January 2015}}</ref> at Milan by Guido Marangoni. Its initial name was '''''La Casa Bella''''' (The Beautiful Home). In 1933, the architect Giuseppe Pagano became editor, changing the name to ''Casabella''. Subsequently, the architect Ernesto Nathan Rogers, who edited the magazine from 1953 to 1965, changed the name further to ''Casabella Continuità'', ''Casabella Costruzioni'', ''Costruzioni Casabella'', and, after the departure of Rogers, ''Casabella''.<ref>[http://www.designdictionary.co.uk/en/casabella.htm Design Dictionary on Casabella] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071111211203/http://www.designdictionary.co.uk/en/casabella.htm |date=November 11, 2007 }}, Retrieved 11 October 2009.</ref>
During its history, ''Casabella'' featured many important architects and designers, including Franco Albini, Gae Aulenti, and Marco Zanuso, contributing as creative editors. It has also published some articles written by Barry Bergdoll, curator at the Department of Architecture and Design of The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) of New York City. Semiotician Giovanni Klaus Koenig also worked for the journal.
After being edited by Vittorio Gregotti between 1981 and 1996, the magazine's editorial helm has been taken over by Francesco Dal Co. It is published by Gruppo Mondadori with a 2014 circulation of 45,000 copies.<ref name=mon>{{cite web|title=Magazines |url=http://www.mondadori.com/Group/Magazines/Italy/Casabella |work=Mondadori |accessdate=26 October 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141109201025/http://www.mondadori.com/Group/Magazines/Italy/Casabella |archivedate=9 November 2014 }}</ref>
==Gallery== <gallery class="center" widths="150" heights="145"> File:Lacasabella.jpg|''La casa bella'', n. 6, June 1929 File:Casabella 471.jpg|''Casabella ''#471, July–August 1981 File:Casabella 489 marzo 1983 Mondadori.jpg|Casabella #489 March 1983 File:Casabella 578 aprile 1991 Mondadori.jpg|Casabella #578 April 1991 File:Riviste Casabella.JPG|Riviste Casabella </gallery>
==See also== * List of magazines published in Italy
== References == {{Reflist}} * {{cite web|title=The Museum of Modern Art (Moma) Announces Key Curatorial Appointment |url=http://www.moma.org/about_moma/press/2006/Bergdoll%20Appointment%20LetterMainMoMASite.pdf |publisher=Press office of the Department of Communications of The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080410205347/http://www.moma.org/about_moma/press/2006/Bergdoll%20Appointment%20LetterMainMoMASite.pdf |archivedate=2008-04-10 }}
== Further reading == *Chiara Baglione, ''Casabella 1928-2008'', Electa, Milano 2008.
==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20071111211203/http://www.designdictionary.co.uk/en/casabella.htm ''Casabella'', Design Dictionary]
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