
L’industria della polvere
- Publisher
- Postcart
- Year
- 2021
- ISBN
- 9788831363570
- Specifications
- embossed linen hardcover with a tipped-in plate
24 x 29 cm
80 pages
Italian and English
Edited by Carlo Nepi and Francesca Sani
Essays by Giovanna Calvenzi and Carlo Nepi
Translation by Geraldine Molinaro
Known locally as the tomato tower of Isola d'Arbia, the former Idit plant is by any measure a piece of industrial archaeology — but where that definition meets no bureaucratic or aesthetic resistance elsewhere in Italy, for the eyesore of the Val d'Arbia the verdicts are contested. At the gates of the Val d'Orcia, a world heritage site and a landscape that stands for Tuscany across the world, the silo imposes itself.