“Venezia tailor-made. Craft Shopping Guide “. More than a guide to high Venetian craftsmanship, a small art book. Essential
There is no city where craftsmanship has such an important historical value as Venice. From glass processing to jewelry, from fabrics to masks, passing through décor, tailoring, gondolas, Venice is a concentrate of artisan shops, factories, ateliers that reveal themselves to those who have the taste, the time, and the desire to discover a more evocative, authentic and original city. All present in Venice are made to measure. Craft and shopping guide, a small essential gem for those who want to discover the soul of this city and the immense know-how of its craftsmen.
Venice tailor-made represents a poetic and, simultaneously, practical map, which will accompany you among the excellence of the Lagoon—passing through the incredible workshops of Venetian master artisans. Where you can discover corners suspended in time, admire gestures that are as natural as absolutely perfect. Magic gives life to unique creations of amazing perfection, among which the publisher has chosen the most iconic with the artisans. Two hundred forty pages, in Italian and English, with more than 230 unpublished photos by Dario Garofalo, the guide is a project wanted by the Michelangelo Foundation for Creativity and Craftsmanship, organizer of the great international event Homo Faber, together with the Cologni dei Mestieri d’Arte Foundation. And created by the publishing house Gruppo Editoriale which already boasts titles dedicated to cities such as Milan, Florence, and Italy made to measure, which collects a selection from 100 of the best Italian artisan shops.
The guide was presented in the magnificent Sala del Portego of the Museum of Palazzo Grimani in Venice. The master craftsmen protagonists of the guide took part in the meeting, with journalists, important Venetian personalities of culture and institutions: the dialogue – moderated by Alberto Cavalli, General Director of the Cologni Foundation and Executive Director Michelangelo Foundation – was attended by Stefano Micelli, Ordinary of Economics and Business Management at the Ca ‘Foscari University of Venice; Lorenzo Cinotti and Laura Scarpa, of High Craftsmanship Venice and Venice to live; Matteo Corvino, Events & Interior Designer, and Matteo Parigi Bini, publisher of the Editorial Group.
The guide is distributed in the most prestigious hotels, in the best bookshops in Venice, and the most important bookshops in the main cities of Italy, as well as being available in the major online shopping portals.