Arts and crafts Venice

This artisan bottegacreates exceptional paper products and restores old books. They produce stationery products such as notebooks, directories, albums and small cards, all of which can be personalized, as well as beautiful scarves and ties, made using the marmorizzazione technique (marbled paper). Each piece made by this team of outstanding craftsmen is like a work of art.

Stefano and Daniele Attombri create unusual jewellery, pieces made in limited numbers, or even unique pieces, from antique Murano glass beads. The creators find their source of inspiration in the canvases representing the Rococo whims of the ladies, in the ancient splendour of Venice, in its palaces of neo-Gothic grace. The house also offers decorative objects for the home, candleholders and lamps. Dolce & Gabbana and Romeo Gigl are among the houses that have associated their names with the two brothers' creations.

This large shop, with its annexed workshop, welcomes craftsmen who seek to reinterpret the mask within the framework of traditional craftsmanship. The creation workshop being inside the shop, you will be able to observe directly how a mask is made, from A to Z: the choice of the shape, the pose of the colours. The owners explain to whoever wants to know the origin of the masks, the main characters of the Commedia dell'Arte, the colour code... If you are interested in little stories about masks, this is the place to go.

Between Campo Sant'Angelo and Campo Santo Stefano, this boutique is one of the best known in Venice for ceramic objects.

Alberto Cavalier now took over Gianni his father, in this workshop gilding that ties with the traditional techniques xvi^e century. An example? Gilding in the apartments of the pope in the Vatican, it is them. And if one day you find yourself in the suites of the famous Le Mirage hotel in Las Vegas, you will think of this small Venetian workshop, at the origin of the frames of the most luxurious rooms. The most curious rooms? Surely statuettes of Moors, for a lampshades or an original door closer.

A pearl among the handicraft stores of Venice, where the know-how and the workmanship (everything is made on the spot, in the workshop) have kept the quality and the refinement of the past without being corrupted by the laws of the market. Giobagnara will enchant you from the moment you enter the shop window: papier-mâché, wallpaper, elegant notepads, woven baskets, but also bracelets, leather accessories for luggage or the table, miniature theaters, etc. Here is the diversity of universes, materials and colors that you can expect when you enter this fabulous lair.

Welcome to the kingdom of quality craftsmanship. According to an ancestral know-how, the owner of the place works all kinds of objects from beautiful and old papers: small and large notebooks, pencil cases, pockets, small purses, notepads, old lithographs... and even earrings in the shape of books! The colours chosen (yellow, green, orange, red, purple, blue) enhance many objects, themselves sublimated by typical Venetian motifs (inspired by the architecture of palaces, arches, cross-warping).