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From a socio-semiotic perspective, the article aims to investigate the relation- ship between domestic space and photography by examining four covers and corresponding articles from four different interior magazines (Casa Facile, Cose di Casa, AD and Marie Claire Maison). We will investigate the way in which the photographic image and the written word are related in the covers on a semantic and plastic level, and we will show how the four magazines, by combining pho- tos, cover lines, puffs and pugs, give shape in their covers to aesthetics based on the plastic articulation of the texts. Starting from the syntagmatic series of pho- tographs that make up the articles, we will reconstruct the paths of an observer passing through the photographed spaces, allowing a glimpse of the enunciation- al contracts between enunciator and enunciated. Furthermore, considering pho- tography as a form of narration of space, we will highlight how it, like the word, can translate spatiality by providing a description based on different models (De Certeau 1990). Finally, we will identify the logics of spatial organization underly- ing the photographic series and the images of the home that each magazine pro- poses. The hypothesis that guides the passage from the covers to the inside of the magazines, and which we will examine, is that the cover as a condensing element, in its plastic treatment, already presents in nuce a structuring organization of space that is developed and expanded beyond the cover.