Brilliant. It's the ripe time to get fruity in Turin. Never rind the rotting puns.
It only takes one man with a wild obsession to turn a hobby into a museum. That man is Francesco Garnier Valletti. He did confectionary work and fake flowers before turning to fruit in the mid 1800s. Gardens and botany were all the rage then and Valletti was tasked/obsessed with modeling as many fruit varieties as possible. The endless cases at the museum bear this, ahem, fruit.
One of several packed room as the museum, filled with inedible and impressive fruit.
Method to the madness. Or, at least, a couple of room re-creations, a lab, and an office.
Jars of supplies, looking a little horror movie set. "It's just apples!"
Modeling details. Valletti devised a a new material to use, more permanent than the wax used at that time.
No bad apples. The detail is impressive, definitely not an assembly line of the same fruit with similar skin. Crispy!
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