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Museo dell'Olivo, Published 1994. Hardcover, 139 pp.; 31 cm; English edition (copyright 1993, printed by Poligrafiche Bolis, Bergamo, September 1994); illustrated throughout with color and black-and-white photographs, catalogue illustrations with hallmark drawings, and plans.
In Very Good condition, no dust jacket, no slipcase. Olive green cloth boards, blind-stamped "O" on front cover, title in green on spine; mild shelf wear to edges and corners, mild staining to cloth at foot of spine. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Catalogue of the Olive Museum at Imperia-Oneglia, the company museum of the Ligurian olive-oil firm Fratelli Carli, housed in its 1930s Art Nouveau headquarters by Rodolfo Winter and awarded a Special Mention in the 1993 European Museum of the Year Award. Sections by curator Patrizia Garibaldi and Dario Moretti cover the olive in antiquity, botany and harvest, oil mills and presses, amphoras and the Roman oil trade, the olive in art and religion, and everyday objects, with an interview with Carlo Carli. The catalogue of the Carli collections describes Genoese, Piedmontese, Milanese and Roman silver oil lamps and cruets with hallmarks and makers, ancient lamps and glass, and Islamic lamps, with bibliography. Translated by Stephen Thorne and David Lowry. Contents: Passion and tradition; The concept and work of the Museum; An ancient past; The immortal tree; Food, light and warmth; Tradition and technology; The mule makes cottage industry possible; Water power and the birth of industry; Jars, amphoras and leather sacks; A practical container; Olive culture; The story of everyday objects; A conversation with Carlo Carli; Silverware; Lamps and other objects from the ancient world; Oriental objects; A visit to the Olive Museum; Olive Museum: plan of buildings and grounds