Ezio Lorenzi, Hardware and Housewares ---

Together with the Urban Commerce District, we met Ezio Lorenzi, owner of the so-called "Everything Store" in Città Alta. Here is the story of his shop: Ezio Lorenzi bursts out laughing – ninety years old this May and in the upper city since 1956 – when we tell him that his small shop of odds and ends on via Salvecchio is known to locals as the "Everything Store". Usually people come to him because someone suggests "go to that guy who has everything!" and he, like a Winston Wolf of another era, is for everyone the man who solves problems: electrical, plumbing or DIY... You can find absolutely everything at his place and always get good advice on how to proceed. Behind the small shop counter, he looks like the admiral of a ship, transporting merchandise of every kind around the world: in reality Ezio has almost never