The collaboration with the independent bookshop Mutty continues.
The theme of this issue is “coming home”. The evolution of technology, daily habits and culture can often lead to a physical and sentimental estrangement from one’s place of origin. Books can undo this process, helping us recover and rebuild a link with the past and our idea of home. More than this, they can soothe the feeling of nostalgia, or so-called “pain of return”, part of Western heritage since Ulysses. 
Here are three books that do it just right through words and images.

Dove c’era un prato

Jörg Müller
Lazy Dog Press

A changing landscape, a house that’s no more.

Seven masterful drawings portray the same landscape over the span of 9 years, from 1953 to 1972, showing the radical changes in such a short time. Swiss artist and illustrator Jörg Müller’s debut, the book was first published in 1973 and made the author internationally known. At the time, the work was a sensation in the world of picture books, and sure enough the new edition reminds us of its unchanged relevancy today.

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Case milanesissime

Alvar Aaltissimo
Corraini

City homes between irony and reality

A compendium of surreal (or hyperreal?) floor plans of imaginary flats available for rent or sale in Milan like the “Room in a façade cavity” or the “Apartment in the Milan that never sleeps” with a treadmill to boot. A rather serious satire on the world of contemporary design and a reflection on life in a metropolis.

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Una mamma è come una casa

Aurore Petit
Topipittori

When the home is ONE person

A mother is a home, nest, fountain, shelter, mirror, tree, show, hurricane, doctor and medicine… A mother can be read in a thousand different ways, just like a book. Across the forty-eight pages, designed by a French illustrator and graphic designer, the book shows us all – adults and children alike – the many metaphors existing within a mother. The volume holds a little extra: opening the dust jacket, you will find a beautiful poster.

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