A few days ago I spent a whole day with Dan, who came all the way from Salt Lake City, with a driver and an interpreter, to visit Gesualdo in person and have his measurements taken for his new made-to-measure frame.
We started the morning chatting in the workshop: I showed him how I work, the steel tubes, the tools, and how every frame is born from a set of measurements and choices made together with the customer, not from a catalogue of sizes. Only later, once we had got to know each other better, did we move on to the technical part, and I took the first measurements for his frame.
At lunchtime Dan and his group already had a booking at a local agriturismo, so I didn't go with them, but in the early afternoon they came back to the workshop and we completed the measurements. Before saying goodbye we took a walk together around Gesualdo: a bit more conversation, with no hurry, with the village as our backdrop.
Thank you Dan for coming all the way from Salt Lake City to see me: it was a pleasure to host you in Gesualdo.
If you would also like to visit the workshop and see how a Forgione frame is born, write to me: you will find all my details on the Contacts page.
