The journal of the Fondazione Migone: its essays, studies, and conversations on Casa Migone. The craft and the products, the people who built the name, and the two centuries of Milan the house moved through.
From Venice's musk-traders and the first printed book of scents, through Caterina de' Medici and the glove-makers of Grasse, to the industrial houses of Milan and Parma, and where Migone sits in the whole thread.
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The quinine hair water that promised to cure baldness and could not, and how, in an age before a remedy had to be proven, it carried the Migone name into millions of Italian homes.
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A hundred and seventy-seven years, eight governments: two Austrian, four Napoleonic, one Savoyard, the Republic. Each left its mark on the city and the market. None stopped the shop.
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The Corso Loreto offices photographed in 1898: electric pendant lamps, men and women working side by side, a figure at the telephone. A city that was, quite literally, lighting itself up.
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