Name of Object:

Au Palais Arabe. A furniture shop of the Italians Eugenio and Alfredo Coen in Tunis

Name in original language:

Palais arabe. Eug et Alf. Coen

Location:

Rome, Italy

Holding Institution:

Italian Geographical Society (SGI)

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Holding Institution (original language):

Società Geografica Italiana (SGI)

Date of Object:

Photograph: first years of the 20th century; building: late 19th–early 20th century

Description:

“Au Palais Arabe”, Rue de Rome, 3, Tunis, was once the most important shop in town for furniture and other household items. Eugenio Coen (born in Livorno in 1855, migrated to Tunis in 1885) and his brother Alfredo (born in Livorno in 1868 and migrated to Tunis in 1887) also ran a furniture factory that, in 1906, employed about 100 carpenters, cabinet makers and other workers, 80 per cent of whom were Italian.

Archival or Bibliographical Reference:

Comitato della Camera italiana di commercio ed arti, Gli italiani in Tunisia, Tunis, 1906, p. 164

Citation of this web page:

Giulia Barrera "Au Palais Arabe. A furniture shop of the Italians Eugenio and Alfredo Coen in Tunis" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2025.
https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;it;100;en

Prepared by: Giulia Barrera
Copyedited by: Anne Dowell

MWNF Working Number: IT1 100