If one title has come up greater than another whereas surveying Venice’s design hotspots, it’s Carlo Scarpa—and for good cause, too. The assorted tasks dotted across the metropolis by this titan of Twentieth-century Venetian structure are as wildly formidable as they’re beloved by town’s inhabitants, however nowhere gives better perception than Museo Querini Stampalia. Positioned on the charming sq. of Santa Maria Formosa, this shape-shifting cultural establishment—without delay a museum, library, and occasions house—is an enchanting microcosm of Scarpa’s wide-ranging architectural ambitions, with its porous design artfully mixing inside and outside, water and brick.
For these whose urge for food for Scarpa stays unsated after a go to right here, make certain to cease by the Olivetti typewriter showroom on Piazza San Marco; and when you’re keen to journey additional afield, head out of town to the Tomba Brion cemetery close to Treviso or to go to the architectural treasure chest that’s the Castelvecchio museum in Verona.
Fondaco dei Tedeschi
Photograph: Courtesy of DFS
With the scores of well-heeled vacationers that go via its calle and fondamente yearly, it’s little marvel that Venice affords a luxurious shopper’s dream alongside the temples of excessive vogue that stretch all the way in which from San Marco to Santa Maria del Giglio. However as of 2016, there’s been a brand new monument to commerce, housed in one of many metropolis’s oldest monuments to commerce: the Fondaco dei Tedeschi. Whereas the constructing takes its title from its origins as a buying and selling put up for German retailers (it’s located proper subsequent to the Rialto bridge), its interiors have had a classy revamp courtesy of Rem Koolhaas’s OMA, and it boasts a wide-ranging purchase that features each essentially the most storied Italian vogue homes and a handful of buzzy, next-gen manufacturers like Jacquemus, Ganni, and The Attico. An added bonus? Within the central atrium, you’ll discover one other arm of chef Massimiliano Alajmo’s mini-empire within the type of Amo, an enthralling café-style eatery with the signature dish being his (extra scrumptious than it sounds, I promise) steamed pizza.
Laguna~B
Photograph: Courtesy of Laguna B
