The volume tells and deepens the bond between Gianni Berengo Gardin (born 1930), one of the most important and celebrated Italian makers, and the historic Olivetti company of Ivrea, the concrete fruit of the visionary and progressive thinking of its founder Adriano Olivetti.

In the maker's long enquiry into the evolution of Italian terrain and society from the postwar years to today, the case of Ivrea and of Olivetti occupies a particular place.