A success that went beyond all expectations. After a year and a half of pause for the pandemic, the FuoriSalone 2021 represented a major breakthrough for the world of furnishings. Many experts on economics and sociology have chimed in regarding what happened in Milan in September, and they all agree that the world’s favorite Design Week was a symbol of a rebound: in the design industry, in the city, but also in the wider system of our country as a whole. The narrative presented herein of this incredible FuoriSalone, an event for which we traditionally set aside one entire issue, reflects the viewpoint of Interni. Which is a perspective on products, projects, concrete facts. Let’s start with the numbers: over 180,000 people visited the three locations of the exhibition Interni Creative Connections: at the Università degli Studi, where the show remained open to the public from 4 to 19 September, well beyond the span of the Salone (4-10 September), as usual; at the Orto Botanico di Brera, from 4 to 12 September; and at the Audi City Lab (for the first time at Via della Spiga 26) from dal 5 to 27 September.