The Art of Corkscrews. From the XVI century to today

Price: Euro 40,00
(about USD 60,00)

This richly illustrated book intends to impress the reader, to kindle his interest and wonder in the corkscrew, an everyday object, which over the centuries has accompanied man in one of the most fascinating mealtime customs: uncorking a bottle.
The corkscrew had already been designed by Leonardo da Vinci in the XV century, and they were later made by skilled craftsmen for the privileged classes (the nobility and the clergy). In the eighteen hundreds the use of the corkscrew spread throughout the middle classes of Europe and America, and today one can be found in every home. People who appreciate objects of art and their history can peruse the four sections of the book and find themselves captivated by the tiny corkscrews made of gold, silver, steel or wood which the author has tried to animate in the atmosphere of the period in which they were created.
Text in Italian, English and French.

“The aim of this book, while highlighting the technical side of corkscrews, is to show how craftsmen have been able to imbue this everyday object with art and creativity.
Here are to be found precious corkscrews which belonged to aristocrats or ladies who kept them on their dressing tables together with their perfumes, bags and fans; ingenious corkscrews with various mechanisms to make man’s life easier and decorative corkscrews which are masterpieces of imagination and irony”. Massimiliano Capella.

29 x 25 cm, 127 pp., colour illustrations