Like true Venetians

This artist-led souvenir brand features unique products designed by local illustrators and designers. If you are looking for cool Venice-inspired products to take home, this brand is the perfect choice.

Inside the historic Spezieria All'Ercole d'Oro you will find perfumery products by The Merchant of Venice. Recalling the ancient art born in Venice thanks to its trade with the Orient, this luxury artistic perfumery brand creates precious fragrances thanks to the skill of its master perfumers.

Established in Venice in 1968, Fallani is an artistic silkscreen printing workshop, a must for graphic designers, illustrators, photographers, painters and anyone wishing to study this method of printing. Almost 300 artists from all over the world have printed their works here, from Renato Guttuso to Gianni Dova, but also Hans Richter, Emilio Vedova, Dario Fo, Antoni Muntadas and many others. Gianpaolo Fallani carries on his father Fiorenzo’s business with passion and dedication,and also organises meetings with artists, conferences and workshops.

After studying at the Fashion Institute of Technology and living for some time in New York, London and Krakow, Michele arrived in Venice, where he opened his ceramics studio. Here she creates objects with an almost sculptural design, combining the techniques of wheel-throwing and hand building.

Studio saòr is an independent creative studio. Passionate observers, they spend hours walking around the city looking for new shapes and urban details, which they then catalogue and put down on paper. Studio saòr’s products are contemporary souvenirs, objects that stimulate a memory and at the same time encourage those who visit Venice to observe the city with new eyes.

Arianna, the owner of Plum Plum Creations, is one of the few Venetian artists who still prints as they used to do in the fifteenth century. If you are in Venice you can’t miss the chance to travel through time and come back to the age of the Serenissima, plunging yourself into the cosy atmosphere of her studio and losing yourself among her beautiful handmade prints and her watercolours.

Here is a place that welcomes a variety of influences in the form of a workshop of artists from different cultures. This is Codex Venezia, an art studio where marvelling at limited-edition drawings, prints and books is the order of the day.

On Fondamenta della Misericordia there is a small shop with a warm, family atmosphere: July. Giulia and Emanuele, who have been passionate about fashion since childhood, will always know how to advise you on the perfect look!

A few steps from the railway station, overlooking the mystical garden of the Carmelitani Scalzi, you will come to the Antica Erboristeria. Inside, among the numerous personal care products, you can also find the famous Acqua di Melissa, still prepared according to the ancient recipe of 1710.

Ikona Photo Gallery is a project founded in 1979 by Živa Kraus, who was the first person in Venice to create a space dedicated to collecting photographs. Having become a fundamental cultural reference for the city, the gallery is currently hosting an exhibition entitled The Halberstadt. Michèle searching for Max.