Jewellery shopping in Venice
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Gloria Astolfo
Take your fashion cues from Venetian painting masterpieces at this Venetian bead artisan’s showcase. Garlands of beaded tiger lilies make open-necked T-shirts instantly glamorous, and those baroque pearl earrings would gently tickle your shoulders if you started to nod off at La Fenice. Prices starting at €35 are surprisingly down-to-earth for jewellery this original, especially so close to Piazza San Marco.
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Sigfrido Cipolato
Booty worthy of pirate royalty is displayed in this fishbowl-sized window display: a constellation of diamonds in star settings on a ring, a tiny enamelled green snake sinking its fangs into a pearl and diamond drop earrings that end in enamelled gold skulls. Though they look like heirlooms, these small wonders were worked on the premises by master jeweller Sigfridio – and you’ll pay half the price here than you would at the high-end jewellery showrooms near San Marco which carry Cipolato’s work.
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Attombri
Bold enough to get noticed on Milan catwalks, Attombri’s original sculpted wire collars and bracelets frame glass cameos, crest into beaded green waves and burst into precious garnet blooms. With prices starting at around €40, Attombri jewellery may be among the best designer values to ever grace the pages of Italian Vogue.
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La Bottega di Gio
Murano glass necklaces you see in the shops not quite your style? Make your own with lampworked Murano glass beads beginning at €1 and your choice of coloured wire, silk thread or leather cord from this DIY jewellery shop. To contain your creations, try a hand-stitched jewellery pouch graced with a glass bead (€15 to €25).
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Antiquus
Pirates and doge descendants would feel right at home among the bejewelled chalices and twinkle-eyed baroque portraits in this heirloom showcase. Even if you’re not in the market for a €5,000 silver coffee service, these Venetian splendours are worth a peek – especially that necklace of golden pomegranates with ruby seeds.
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Codognato
Possibly the city's best-known jeweller, Codognato sells classic, antique and contemporary pieces that have attracted the likes of Jackie Onassis in their time. Whether she bought any of the pieces with the skulls motifs is unknown. Attilio Codognato continues the tradition of his ancestors, who opened the store in 1866.
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Perle e Dintorni
Pick up handfuls of multicoloured glass beads from the baskets in the window and at the counter to make your own cheerful and affordable costume jewellery, or have them craft something for you. There is also ready-made stuff at this light-hearted store. Bead-making has a centuries-long history in Venice.
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Laberintho
A token jewel in the window is a tantalising hint of the original custom jewellery this versatile goldsmiths’ atelier can create for you: a square gold ring secretly lined with ebony, a necklace of iridescent glass and gold links, or a gold band inlaid top and bottom with opal and turquoise.
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Vergombello
This is a dark den of all that glistens, including rings, pendants and pins, some with minuscule moving parts. But you'd never know it was a high-end purveyor of jewellery, because it's also a workshop, with Bunsen burners, all sorts of microscopic jewellery tools and an inspired confusion.
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Antichità Claudia Zaggia
Nadia Viani runs this little Aladdin's Cave of, well, just about anything. Depending on the day, you might discover an Art Nouveau necklace, preloved pearls, old glassware, or rosy-faced ceramic dolls from another era.
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