NEW! - I received the following email from DomusLift, on March
28, 2000:
dear Sir ,
We are IGV spa, the Italian company producing the DOMUSLIFT , the
home lift you display in you Web site. I thank you for that and I
have to inform you that the other homelift was our Domuslift too!
( It was not another company ! )
If you wish to see it better our site is www.domuslift.com
if you could give us your address , we will send you a nice
present from our company.
ciao
Matteo Volpe
area export manager
That's pretty neat. I haven't received the nice present yet, but
I'm looking forward to it.
I read something in the paper about how Italy has more elevators
per capita than any other country. They have over 65,000
elevators in this country, one for every 90 people. By
comparison, the U.S. has one elevator for every 500 people. I
mentioned this to Elia and Claudio (my aunt and uncle), and
Claudio said, "Well, there's four of them in my
building!" (the building is really small, too). So as we
were walking around Milano, in the middle of the street was this
display for the "DomusLift". For around $8,000, you can
buy an elevator to take you from the first floor to the second
floor. In their brochures, they call it "the ideal solution
for getting round the architectural barriers" (they're
called stairs!). We thought this was hilarious, so we had to stop
and take a photo of it.
Little did we know, just down the street, another company was
starting to put up their display for another home elevator! It is
truly amazing. And keep in mind, there wasn't a convention or
anything, these were just random displays on the side of the
street.