The texts of four well-known design critics ( Beppe Finessi, Deyan Sudjic, Paolo Ferrarini and Li Edelkoort ) offer a general and personal reading of the phenomenon, its evolution and its meaning . The decades instead make use of the historical and sociological introduction of Andrea Davide Cuman , university professor and scholar, who tells the event in relation to the evolution of taste and the transformations of the city . The series of images is interspersed with the contributions of around 50 characters who, with their testimonies, memories and costume anecdotes, tell their FuoriSalone.
Thousands and thousands of photographs that we have retrieved from the Interni archives and which, unfortunately, have in part been lost. The selection was very difficult and was guided by the idea of proposing a 'personal' story , certainly not exhaustive but certainly passionate: in some cases we favored the spectacularity of the images, in others the content and the importance of the event.
500 pages are not enough to retrace all the events recorded, from 1990 to today, by our FuoriSalone Guides , so we immediately apologize for the omissions that inevitably follow. It would take an encyclopedia to tell in detail what the most famous, animated and crazy week in Milan presented in 30 years. Or the digital archive of a site entirely dedicated to the history of this incredible event. And this doesn't necessarily happen, sooner or later ...
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