Venice is mostly known for local crafts that have been produced here for centuries and are diffucult to get elsewhere: the glassware from Murano, the delicate lace from Burano, and the cartapesta (paper) Carnevale masks. But pay att...Open the full description
Venice is mostly known for local crafts that have been produced here for centuries and are diffucult to get elsewhere: the glassware from Murano, the delicate lace from Burano, and the cartapesta (paper) Carnevale masks. But pay attention to get the certificate that they are made in Venice, and remember that the real ones are costly, so the masks you can buy for 5 euros are for sure not made in Italy. These are the most famous things you can buy in Venice, but there are several products, made by artisans, which are more precious for their uniqueness.
Kleine Galerie
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The San Samuele nieghborhood is well known for the numerous art galleries and handcraft shops. It is located near campo Santo Stefano, in the Calle delle Botteghe, once a very popular area among the Germans who were mainly “calegheri” (cobblers).
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Lido di Venezia
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This is a little and characteristic island of Venice, a spit of about 12 kilometers between two mouth, Malamocco and the port of San Niccolò. This is the beach of Venetian people and the place where the important International Festival of the Cinema develops.
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Il forcolaio matto
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A "Forcola" is the oarlock of a typical boat of the lagoon and this accessory is essential for the Venitian way of rowing. This piece is hand-made following old time technique of contruction by expert artisans, calld "Remèr".
You can find "Forcole" only in Venice, and who make these boat pieces have a unique job.
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marina e susanna sent
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The Sent sisters have a unique approach to design.
Their works have a structural and formal simplicity – a modernity suspended between minimalist, transparent and ephemeral elements and vibrant chromatic compositions.
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Fontegoart
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Not only tourists buy souvenirs in Venice, also the locals. When Venetians are goining to visit some friends who do not live in the lagoon they buy small presents in this nice shop. They sell calendars, notebooks, posters, bags, pencil cases .. that you can not find elsewhere. In fact they are the the works of a venetian painter, Nicola Tenderini.
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Signor Blum
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The shopping that locals love!! A wonderful collection of special local handicrafts in wood. SignorBlum is a craft company whose workshop and retail stores are in the heart of old Venice, where it has been making handmade gifts and objects in wood for the home since 1978.
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Casin Dei Nobili
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The artist Stefano Oliani, who worked as scenographer and costume designer, began his research on masks during the free time while studying at the Accademia of Fine Arts of Venice.
After working in theatre as an assistant set designer he resumed his passion never appeased for masks and created the first neo-Baroque-style mask. His masks are unique
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Gilberto Penzo
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Hand made wooden models of all kinds of Venetian boats, made using the same wood types, and following the same technique, with a long reconstructive study behing.
They prefer to build the humble kinds of boats, the ones used from the low class in the past.
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Helene Ferruzzi
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Hélène Kuhn was born in France. When she was 21 during a journey made the most important encounter of her life, she met the Venetian painter Bobo Ferruzzi. She learnt from him the art to paint, and built up her style.
The art of painting on fabric has got a long historic tradition in Venice.
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Libreria Acqua Alta
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One of the most original library in the world! All the bookcases are unique: canoes, gondolas, little boats, rafts. Moreover some books became part of the furnishing on the walls or in a particular flight of steps. A lot of books in italian and in other languages fill the library.
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Fiorella Gallery
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Fiorella Mancini, the artist and shop owner, has never stopped experimenting.
This gallery is one of the controversial place in Venice, and this art can be descibed as provocative, with sexual references and modern fatishes.
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Micromega Ottica
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Every single MIcromega is designed on the customer's desire. They have the lightest eyewear frame in the world. There is no glue or screw in the piece, the assemblage is done with a filament that sews the glass together.
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Gualti
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The small completely white shop is the home of jewellery sculptures, unique pieces made of resins and high-tech materials Gualtiero Salbego have found suitable for the manifestations of his creative soul.
Shapes that remembert sea inhabitants, flying animals, plants and flowers.
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