The originality of the choices, the elegance of the garment, the quality of the texts made it the most common art magazine in the world. The new FMR has editorial guise and intentions similar to the first FMR: it does not teach the history of art but makes art love forming the taste and ability to see.
Conceived within the world’s largest maze and paying homage to Borges’ Library of Babel, the Dédale series brings together hidden gems of classic literature, where buried treasures, remarkable collections and the most dazzling tales of jewels and gemstones are revealed – or perhaps concealed? – and brought to life through illustrations by contemporary artists or masterpieces of the past.
Every year the collection will be enriched with two new volumes, revealed in spring and autumn.
Perhaps in the first place an avid collector, whose passion was able to combine the most disparate eras and places. Already what this publisher tells us about himself - the birth in Parma and the love for mannerism, the meeting with Borges and the pleasure of the erudition, the memory of Father Matteo Ricci and the feat of the reissue of the Encyclopédie of Diderot and D’Alembert - shows us clearly to what point biographic and culture come to compose a living memory here ...