San Polo & Santa Croce
With a clientele ranging from Hollywood stars to New York socialites, Stefano and Daniele Attombri’s contemporary glass jewellery embraces art deco,…
Must-see shopping in The Veneto
San Polo & Santa Croce
If you’ve been eyeing up the natty striped T-shirts, devilishly soft winter wool hats and crepe pants sported by Venice’s gondoliers then make a beeline…
San Polo & Santa Croce
Mornings are best to catch the 1930s Heidelberg machine in action, but whenever you arrive, you'll find mementos hot off the proverbial press…
San Polo & Santa Croce
Add a Venetian eye for colour to a Japanese flair for sculptural fashion, and here you have it: teal mohair tube scarves that float around the collarbone…
Giudecca, Lido & the Southern Islands
Paper is anything but two-dimensional here: paper maestro Fernando di Masone embosses and sculpts handmade cotton paper into seamless raw-edged lampshades…
Venice
Impeccably tailored midnight-blue silk-satin dresses with exuberant woolly shoulders showcase not only the skills of sisters Patrizia and Samanta Fiorenza…
San Polo & Santa Croce
Couple Tiziano and Vanessa use a variety of printmaking techniques including silk screen and xylograph to create handmade T-shirts and bags, some with…
San Polo & Santa Croce
The window display offers a tantalising hint at the custom jewellery this versatile goldsmiths’ atelier can create for you, with original designs that nod…
San Polo & Santa Croce
Yes, you actually can take a gondola home in your pocket. Anyone fascinated by the models at the Museo Storico Navale will go wild here, amid handmade…
San Polo & Santa Croce
Made you look: these Murano glass jewels in bold colours and shapes have the attention-getting powers of traffic lights. Cascades of lilac beads cluster…
Venice
Expect to fall in lust with these richly hued, contemporary leathergoods. Made by artisans using full-grain Tuscan leather, these coveted butter-soft…
Venice
Husband-and-wife team Mauro and Antonella graduated from the Architecture Institute in Venice and have never left. They design exquisite objects for the…
Venice
Question: how do you maintain a bella figura (good impression) when high tides are sloshing around your ankles? The answer can be found at Martina Ranaldo…
Giudecca, Lido & the Southern Islands
Marcel Proust waxed rhapsodic over Fortuny’s silken cottons printed with art nouveau patterns. At the showroom attached to his still-functioning factory,…
Murano, Burano & the Northern Islands
Giordano Guarnieri started working with glass in 1946 when he was just nine years old and made his name producing chandeliers. He opened this workshop in…
San Polo & Santa Croce
Ziggurats of sun-dried tomatoes, leaning towers of star anise and chorus lines of olive oils draw awestruck foodies to Mascari’s windows. Indoors, chefs…
San Polo & Santa Croce
Glass menageries don’t get more fascinating than the one created before your eyes by Signor Amadi. Fierce little glass crabs approach pink-tipped coral,…
Venice
When an Italian minimalist falls in love with a Murano glass-blower, the result is spare, spirited glass jewellery. Esperienze is a collaborative effort…
San Polo & Santa Croce
When you start feeling the effects of all those spritz sessions, pick up some healing herbs at this vintage pharmacy. Adorned with 19th-century woodwork…
Venice
The lion of San Marco looks fashionably fierce when embossed upon a turquoise billfold by leather artisan Davide Desanzuane. Unexpected colours update…
San Polo & Santa Croce
The same thought occurs to many people after hearing a concert in Venice: is it too late to take up an instrument? The easiest would be harmonica or…
Venice
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection's bright, enticing museum shop is stuffed with brilliant things designed to get your creative juices flowing. Books on art…
Venice
Chances are you'll find glass-maker Patrizia Iacovazzi (known as Simona to her friends) at her work table, turning glass into striking, elegant wearables,…
San Polo & Santa Croce
Pied à Terre’s colourful furlane (Venetian slippers) are handcrafted with recycled bicycle tyre treads, ideal for finding your footing on a gondola…
Mercato della Prigione Femminile
Giudecca, Lido & the Southern Islands
Giudecca locals head here early to stock up on organic vegetables grown in the 'Garden of Wonders' in the women's prison and sold on a stand out the front…
Venice
American transplant Trina Tygrett studied glass-making at the Academy of Fine Arts and subsequently married into a Murano-glass family. She now works…
Venice
Restyle your life at this modern design showcase, which stocks a sharply curated selection of Italian and international jewellery, accessories, homewares…
San Polo & Santa Croce
Sailors, pirates and armchair seafarers should navigate to this canalside storefront, which stocks every maritime map and sailor's-knot manual needed for…
Venice
Step out in stylish, well-heeled and surprisingly practical shoes, made right in Venice. Algae-green high-button boots, ox-blood Oxfords and strappy…
San Polo & Santa Croce
Gabriele Gmeiner honed her shoemaking craft at Hermès and John Lobb, and today jet-setters fly to Venice just for her ultra-sleek Oxfords with hidden …
Venice
Work your way through Venice’s most decadent vices at this Willy Wonka–esque shop, where lip-smacking edibles include plague doctor masks. Ganache-filled…
Venice
Spare white bisque cups seem perfect for a Zen tea ceremony, but look inside – that iridescent lilac glaze is pure Carnevale. Danghyra's striking ceramics…
San Polo & Santa Croce
A magnet for local students and tourists looking for something out of the ordinary, this delightful unisex clothing store stocks unusual labels, with a…
Venice
Housed in one of the pretty Liberty villas at the end of verdant Viale Garibaldi is this association of Venetian ceramicists (the Bochaleri). Every…
Venice
Globally oriented but with Italian tastes firmly in mind, this volunteer-run fair-trade co-op sells Vietnamese bamboo steamers, single-origin drinking…
Venice
Either a shooting star just landed on your shoulder, or you’ve been to Gualti, where iridescent orange glass bursts from clear resin stems on a supernova…
Venice
Attached to a graphic-design studio and editorial consultancy, Bruno is one of the most innovative art and design bookshops in Venice. It produces…
Venice
Precarious stacks of books appear in constant danger of collapse at this wonderfully ragtag secondhand bookshop. Some books are displayed in a gondola –…
Venice
A much-loved antiques flea market held several weekends a year; check the website for dates. Head in early for the best finds, among them vintage Campari…
Venice
Venice artisan Ninfa Salerno gives staid pearl strands a sense of humour with bouncy black rubber, weaves fuchsia rubber discs into glowing UFO necklaces,…
