Salone del Mobile Milan 2017, Design Week Installation, Furniture Collection Images
Salone del Mobile Milan
Contemporary Furniture Design Collections News, Italy, at Fairgrounds, Rho
18 Mar 2017
Salone del Mobile Milan 2017
Location: Milan, Italy
Architectural Highlights
Salone del Mobile Milan 2017 – Christian Richter?s abandoned buildings
Over the course of the last eight years, Christian Richter has visited and photographed more than a thousand abandoned buildings in countries including Germany, France, Italy and Poland.
His journey has taken him to ancient churches, cinemas, theatres, factories, tenements and noble dwellings in search of their very soul, free to emerge precisely because man has abandoned them to rack and ruin, making way for a purely poetic dimension utterly devoid of functional and social purpose. Richter began photographing abandoned places after the fall of the Berlin Wall, when whole areas of the GDR ? where he was born and where he grew up ? were emptied of people and activities or underwent swingeing change.
Discovering the secret histories of these spaces ? at exactly the magical point when nature and ruins are beginning to take the upper hand, but aren?t yet past their best ? has become something of an obsession for the photographer, in a bid to encapsulate this melancholy beauty before it is gone for ever.
Richter says this about his research: ?I have to go to a lot of places with my camera -Canon D5 mostly with a wide angle 16-35 mm by...