The historic FMR magazine is reborn. Here's what it will look like and how much it will cost to subscribe

A year after Franco Maria Ricci’s death, the historic magazine he founded in 1982, FMR, the “black pearl of world publishing,” as Federico Fellini called it, and the “most beautiful magazine in the world” according to many, is reborn. Repeatedly announced but so far never successful, the revival is now really official: reviving the publication is Ricci’s wife, Laura Casalis, who in December 2020 managed to buy back the brand, which had been sold in 2002 to Marilena Ferrari’s Art’è company, after the magazine had reached its 163rd issue. In fact, Ricci wanted to devote herself full time to the construction of the Labirinto della Masone, and once the Labirinto’s dream was realized, she tried hard to acquire her FMR again in order to restart publication. Another dream, however, which was fulfilled posthumously.

So everything is ready for the launch of the magazine, which will come out in December 2021, will be quarterly and sold by subscription. The publication is printed in five colors on paper, paperback bound, with a 23 x 30 centimeter format, 132 pages printed in color, 170 gsm Fedrigoni Tatami paper for the inside pages, 300 gsm Fedrigoni Tatami paper laminated with glossy film for the cover. “The new FMR,” the presentation reads, “has similar editorial look and purposes to the first FMR: it does not teach the history of art but makes people love art by forming taste and the ability to see. It is a school for the eye. The graphic elegance, high paper weight, and researched topics make it a unique magazine, the pride of its collectors. ’Gift of the Season,’ comes out four times a year.” The topics? The same as always: art history, design, architecture, and in general topics “where every surprise, every adventure of the eye is transformed into a stimulus for the imagination and the mind.” Renowned writers and scholars who brought prestige to the magazine in the 1980s will alternate between its pages, with the ambition to “continue on the same path and offer readers, along with the seduction of images, the pleasure of reading.” The new FMR, the presentation continues, “is committed to maintaining the traditional quality of the images, entrusting their execution to great photographers. After careful proofing, the photo shines with its colors on the black background that makes it stand out the way the darkness in the hall makes cinema and theater performances stand out.”

The subscription (you can already subscribe to it) will cost 140 euros per year, and will also entitle you to a library case where you can keep the 4 issues of the magazine, and the Franco Maria Ricci Club card that gives you free admission to the Labirinto della Masone and its collections and favorable treatment on the purchase of Franco Maria Ricci editions. Subscribers who in turn give away subscriptions will receive a 20 percent discount.

The historic FMR magazine is reborn. Here's what it will look like and how much it will cost to subscribe

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