Those were the years that saw the birth and affirmation of a distinct ‘Italian style’ in the world of industrial design. This was counterbalanced by undisputed successes in the field of fashion and other areas where creative energies were emerging. Photography thus took centre stage, contributing to a debate that was based more on works than words. Carlo Orsi's book Milano is therefore not only a testimony to a landscape destined to disappear. It remains over time as a conceptual document, appreciated above all for its rapid intuition of the context, combined with the rigour of its aesthetic analysis. The quality of the printing is perfect for highlighting the bold chiaroscuro, giving depth to the velvety blacks. There is a great Milan in Carlo Orsi's images. A city that was proposing itself as the capital of the cultural world, thanks to what they believed in this sum of creative energies that emerge from the book like the buildings rising above the autumn fog, now rendered historical memory by the charm of a volume that seems to possess the magical ability to take us back in time, almost without regret.