No. 10

Summer Solstice 2024

2024 / 128 PAGES. Language: English, Italian

FMR observes the publication of the first round decade of issues in its New Series with an idiosyncratic, wide-ranging, and eclectic issue. The contents range from the painter Foujita’s Paris years, work veined with subtle nuances, to the brightly colored decorations designed by Géza Maróti for Mexico City’s Palacio de Bellas Artes; from Salerno’s contemplative medieval ivories to the wind-loud Marmore waterfalls of Central Italy, culminating in a poetically commonsense appreciation of vividly enameled coin banks. The front of the book features portraits of Salome, auctions, the art of nostalgia, the synthetic materials of autarky, and the color indigo.

HORS D’ŒUVRE

“Rediscoveries” – Symbolist Striptease

with a text by Joris-Karl Huysmans, 1884

“Ephemera” – The Homesick Eye

Matteo Fochessati

“Ephemera” – Mood Indigo

Antony Shugaar

“Ephemera” – The Discreet Charm of the Ersatz

Stefano Salis

“Auctions” – Have Paintbrush, Will Travel

Massimo Navoni

BOWL CUT, LENNON GLASSES, AND CATS, CATS, CATS

by Giuseppe Scaraffia

with a text by Kiki de Montparnasse

The joyful Parisian years of Tsuguharu Foujita as recalled by his most renowned model and evoked in a witty and refined article.

A DANUBE SECESSION IN MEXICO CITY

by Giorgio Antei, Mónika Szente-Varga

photography by Massimo Listri

An extraordinary Mexican photographic campaign and two learned articles revive the poetics of Hungarian artist and designer Géza Maróti.

THE IVORIES OF SALERNO

by Francesca Dell’Acqua

photography by Roberto Bigano and Massimiliano Sampaolesi

The ivory panels of Salerno, a masterpiece of medieval fine carving, with depictions from the Testaments, Old and New.

LEGEND OF THE FALLS

by Attilio Brilli

with a text by Francesco Carrara

Nature harnessed into the Marmore Waterfalls, created in the years of the Republic of Rome, became a must-see on the Grand Tour.

CHA-CHING!

by Giovanni Mariotti

photography by Mauro Davoli

Personal thoughts and profound memories reawakened by an object as simple and unassuming as a coin bank.