House shopping in Italy
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Tre Erre Ceramiche
Tre Erre Ceramiche has a huge selection of ceramics.
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Al Canton del Vin
Wine is as important to life for Venetians as water and a fine take-home tradition persists in Venice for tipplers unable or unwilling to spend on big labels. These wine-stores are crammed with huge glass damigiane (demijohns). From these monsters, each containing a sea of modest Veneto table wine, you make a choice and have it poured into whatever you bring - used wine or mineral-water bottles, it's up to you. You will be charged, on average, around €2 per litre.
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Murano Collezioni
Like divas at Teatro La Fenice, signature glass pieces show perfect poise on elegantly spotlit pedestals in this darkened brick warehouse showroom. Famed Murano glass designers Barovier & Toso, Carlo Moretti and Venini are all represented here, and even if you’re not in the market for such high-end glass you’re welcome to stop in and admire their luminous designs in a range of techniques.
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Stile Biologico
The sprouts of a new fashion for the 21st century, where classy organic-food lovers will feel at home, have blossomed in this Florence store. Cotton, linen, wool and other material are all guaranteed organically produced. In other words, the white, cream and beige threads that dominate have been untouched by pesticides. Buy right-on clothes with right-on attitude.
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Epicentro
All the secrets to a perfect Italian espresso are here: stove-top espresso makers with built-in pressure valves, rechargeable milk frothers, and espresso cups in futurist shapes. This boutique is even smaller than cramped Venetian kitchens, but its steel racks are loaded with an Alessi catalogue of monkey-shaped creamers and toothbrush-hugging trolls.
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Io sono un autarchico
If you could move in this shoe-box-sized shop you would probably enjoy browsing through the bric-a-brac. As it is you have to make way practically every time someone new enters. Still, the shelves are heaving with weird and wonderful household items and it's a friendly place. The shop's name is a reference to a film by Roman director Nanni Moretti.
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Mercato Mensile Antiquariato
If you're lucky enough to be in Perugia on the fourth weekend of the month, spend a few hours in the Mercato Mensile Antiquariato around the Piazza Italia and in the Giardini Carducci. It's a great place to pick up old prints, frames, furniture, jewellery, postcards and stamps. Open from 09:00 until 6 or 19:00, or when it rains.
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Arform
One-stop-shopping for that effortlessly cosmopolitan Milanese look, with superb design pieces in natural materials from Finland to Japan, New York to Milan. Pack your Marimekko flower-print napkins and your train-station GB Milan clock in your Qurz wood-panelled briefcase, and you've got fusion style in the bag.
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OK-KO Research
Ironic hipsters shop here for Andy Warhol light boxes, lurid plastic chairs, Dutch designer clocks, chill-out compilation CDs and fluoro-coloured handbags in the shape of watering cans. The counter doubles as a deck for the in-house DJ and aperitivo (aperitif) is served upstairs in the winter.
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Archivia
Muted is not in the vocabulary of Archivia, with its bright mix of modern homewares. The Italian and French designs are made to stand out: minimalists should give it a wide berth; others should expect plenty of plastic tableware in primary colours, modern lamps, garish mirrors and loud picture frames.
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Jesurum Outlet
Jesurum is one of the traditional names in Venetian lace, in business since the late 19th century. Set back from the fondamenta (canalside street) is a huge warehouse and workshop where you can buy ready-made pieces (from pillow cases to doilies) or you can ask for made-to-measure items.
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Modiglioni
Upper-class Romans flock to Modiglioni for its high-class homewares, including unusual pieces such as oversized ceramic chickens. Besides chickens, it stocks the best in Italian design, from classic Murano glassware to sleek Alessi steel, as well as Wedgewood plates and Danish porcelain.
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D Cube
D Cube sells cool designer gadgets and modern furniture that you never realised you needed. For quirky colanders, modernist coffee cups and rechargeable radios in chrome and steel, look no further. There's another branch at Via della Pace 38 (06 686 12 18).
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Coltelleria Bianda
The Bianda family has been selling one thing or another at this end of the street since 1820, but the knife speciality really only took off in the early 1900s. The shop remains pretty much as it was when it was given an overhaul in the 1930s.
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Daal Gallery
Less is more in this careful selection of mod ceramics and mid-century furnishings, including a chandelier apparently fashioned from orange and white glass trumpets. Mix in occasional artworks by local artists and the look is complete.
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C.U.C.I.N.A.
If you need a gadget for the foodie in your life, C.U.C.I.N.A. is the place. Make your own cucina (kitchen) look the part with the designer-ware from this famous shop, including devices from jelly moulds to garlic crushers.
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La Chiave
La Chiave is one of Rome's best shops for ethnic bits and pieces (ceramics, furniture, hammocks, paper lanterns and so on). Just off Largo di Torre Argentina, it's reasonably priced and ideal if you're on a gift hunt.
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Carlo Mirella Panarello
Don’t come here expecting a bargain – instead think of purchasing one or two memorable items such as a piece of quality ceramic art from Carlo Mirella Panarello.
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Rap
This street is home to some idiosyncratic artist studios. Pick up an offbeat chicken-legged table by children's book author and artist Chiara Rapaccini at this shop.
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Circo Fortuna
Circo Fortuna produces lots of cheeky ceramics.
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