Venice Design Week Meets Venetian Craftsmanship

Venice Design Week Meets Venetian Craftsmanship

Every year Venice Design Week dedicates part of its activities to themed paths, with the goal to help visitors discover the huge variety of local creativity, and the talented craftsmen that make this city so unique in the world.?

There are similar paths and similar events that are accessible the whole year, and in support of the liveliness of this city, we chose to highlight some opportunities if you are planning to visit Venice. These are ateliers, shops, and concept stores that you can visit all year long.

SILVIA FINIELS AND AVENTURINA DESIGN

Silvia Finiels is born in Paris and has an education in fashion design and textile print design. In 1987 she moved to Venice, devoting her time to antiques and decoration.?

Together with Giorgio Mion, thanks to whom she moved to Venice, she creates precious and unique necklaces. Passionate about Venetian beads, in 2007, Silvia opens her own personal gallery in S. Polo where beads and necklace can be admired together with ancient Murano glass objects.

Aventurina Design is her own brand, where she leads a research in the field of vintage glass lamps. Through this reproach she creates lamps with refined color using ancient glass elements.

Each of her lamps are unique sculptures: artistic mixtures of beauty and tradition mixing with new style.

Aventurina Design Gallery is in S. Polo, and the Atelier is in Murano.

In 2018, Venice Design Week hosted Silvia and Aventurina Design, read more in the following link:

https://www.venicedesignweek.com/inhotel_gallery/

ATTOMBRI

The Attombri brothers work within the art of glass design. They blend traditional Venetian techniques with modern innovation, patterning and avant-garde style and transform their pieces in timeless works.

They use materials such as copper, silver, Murano glass beads intertwined with the traditional style of Venetian pearl stringers.

Their success is international, their works are collectible must-haves for women and artists all over the world.?

The Attombri brothers had the opportunity to interact with the fashion world and collaborate with brand as Romeo Gigli and Dolce & Gabbana, winning the New Talent Prize by More for a line of work inspired by mythology and created in collaboration with renown glass artist Lucio Bubacco.

More informations about the Attombri brothers studio can be found at the following link:

https://www.venicedesignweek.com/attombri/

MARCO CAROLINA AND LORENZO MARIN

A boutique, a concept store, and a family business, Il Giardino Di Pippo Design Lab is a unique location where Marco, Carolina, and Lorenzo Marin foster their ideas and create their design.

This is a location for applied creativity: home décor, lamps, clothes and accessories take form thanks to the skilled hands of Italian designers.

In the Rialto showroom, together with the works of the Marin, interior and industrial design experts, and other important national and international collaborators give birth to new outstanding and prize-winning pieces.

In recent years, the team has received numerous awards including the Wallpaper Design award, the German Design award, and the Archiproducts design award.

Some works have been exhibited in permanent collections and in international museums including the Correr Museum in Venice, the Beaubourg in Paris, the MOMA in San Francisco, La Biennale di Venezia, and even for a project of Yoko Ono.

LCM Marin Design Studio, aka Il giardino di Pippo can be found at the Sottoportego de Rialto.

KANZ

KANZ Architetti is a multidisciplinary design studio founded in Venice in 2014 by Antonella Maione and Mauro Cazzaro, that ranges from the design to the restoration of residential architecture, from the design of commercial interiors, to the design of temporary installations up to product design.

Focused on the value of the activity of a designer, they use an experimental approach with attention to details and materials when creating every sort of product.

KANZ collaborates with local artisan companies to grant an independent production, that grants research, story, and deepened working method to enrich technique and narration. The projects that are born, are grounded to reality, they combine beauty and functionality.

With a shop in Dorsoduro, we would like to highlight one of their pieces, Papalina, a suspension table lamp.

The project originates from the decomposition and recomposition of pure geometric forms, aiming to the harmonisation of proportion to come to definite form with a strong architectural personality and a quiet elegance.?

Here you can find our interview for Venice Design Week back in 2020:

https://www.venicedesignweek.com/kanz-architetti/

PERLAMADRE DESIGN

Perlamadre Design was created in 2008 through the collaboration between Simona Iacovazzi, from Salento and Evelina Pescarolo, Venetian, both committed to the restoration of their cultural heritage.

Simona is a Venetian excellence specialised in working Venetian glass using the traditional lampwork technique. Wholly performed in Venice, her production has closely-guarded glass-making secrets that make every work outstanding.

Every bead is a bearer of history, being the result of careful research that stands out in its colour and inner potential. These gems interpret the past transformed into present.?

Simona has two hour workshop experiences that teach the story of Venetian beads and educate participants in creating their own first bead (that they can take with them).

In 2012 Perlamadre opened its atelier in Venice in Dorsoduro.

PAPERWHOOL

Stefania Giannini has her store in Venice where she uses paper to create design objects and jewels. Her works are unexpected and she has a volcanic creativity and passion for her material.

She has a bespoke service where she creates specific objects or jewels and even image consulting.?

The reference to Japanese origamis can be very easy, but Stefania’s work has some different and more Venetian originality to it. Her store is located in Santa Croce, and can be visited Monday to Friday in day hours, while on Saturday and Sunday she receives only by appointment.

Her shop/lab is a very interactive place, she is that kind of creative person that accepts every form of challenge. Even her website allows to contact her by throwing an idea straight on the contact form.