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 Symbol
of life, wisdom and peace. The olive tree marks the culture of our
history, our memories and our myths. The Mediterranean sea is its
birthplace and the land that surround it are characterized by
silvergreen foliage that blend in with the red hearth, the blue sky
and the blue sea. A wooden floor inevitably implies the bio-ecological
sense of a natural and ancient environment; the word "parquet" derives
from "park" and we are proud that our floors come from olive groves.
Its scientific name is Olea Europaea, an evergreen of the Oleaceae
family. The plant we want to tell you about is the Olea sativa, the
tree that grows under the warm and sunny italian regions.
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In some fiery lands of our south, like Calabria, the re are
secular olive trees that cover, with their vast plantations, the hills
that look out over the antique sea of Magna Grecia. They can even
reach the height of 20 metres, the olive tree has outbursts of angular
branches with a small contored tree trunck, in which are hollow in the
older specimen. The colour of the trunk and the foliage, reflects
an image that at times is part of the customs of many of us, but in
other cases it enters in our collective memory, our ancestral
recollections. The persistent, coriaceous and lanceolate leaves have
the typical dark green colour, on the upper part, and are light silver
underneath; the fruits, bright black when ripe, are the renown oblong
drupes.
[More info about Olive wood] [Catalogue Olive wood collection (PDF)] [Olive Products Data Sheet (PDF)] |
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Pino Parquets has been in the wood industry for three generations. But
in particular, with the "mast'Antoniupinu" carpenters. At the turn of
the century our company began producing parquet flooring of excellent
workmanship and high technical and artisanal quality. De Pino Parquets
is located in Polistena, in Calabria a region wich in tall and secular
olive-groves. Thanks to this environmental peculiarity our company has
specialized in the production of olive-wood floors.
