On our visit to FUMARE, Dion Giolito invited us into the Illusione warehouse in Reno, Nev., a plain-looking building in an office park. It’s somewhat what you would expect. Meticulously organized, clean and full of lots of Illusione. Everything except the latest Singularé was in supply, and plenty: Rothchildes, Epernay, Original Document, Ultra and more. At the front, there’s personal storage for Giolito, including a few Illusione gems. Sure, there’s boxes of ~eccj~, Singularé Phantoms and others, but there’s also a few things never before photographed. I spotted an interesting looking ~88~ box with a special inscription, “Exclusivamente per FUMARE.” It’s a special box, one of the original 50 boxes that started Illusione. Giolito explained it himself. My life was forever changed when I decided after of two years of college in Oklahoma to come back to Reno in 1988 to be closer to home (Las Vegas) to finish school. I was a theory and composition major back in OK – I wanted to be a film score composer. UNR didn’t have that degree, instead they gave me the same scholarship provided I enroll in the College of Education. Sure, fine I thought. It was shortly after working various part-time jobs ...
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