Imagine a secluded spot out of the hustle and bustle of the city, a gracious garden surrounded by climbing wisteria and small orange trees and a cozy room where to enjoy a cup of tea in the chilly winter days. After a long walk through the narrow, crowded alleys of Venice, a place like this might sound like a mirage… Still, it really exists! Located in Calle Lunga de San Barnaba, Fujiyama tea room is immersed in a neighborhood that was able to preserve its genuine character a

Graceful and flexible as a leaf of grass, light and evanescent as a floating bubble (he loves this similarity!), Gualtiero Salbego set foot in Venice, for the first time ever, in 1998, and since then he never left. At that time he was 26, and probably too shy to imagine his brilliant future as one of the finest artists in town. Born and raised in a small village of Veneto countryside, Gualtiero lived in a family that considered job as a primary source and sent him to work rig

Right in the heart of Dorsoduro, a few minutes from the Galleria dell’Accademia, there’s a small workshop that might go unnoticed by the most. Yet, it is a magnificent chest that contains an indefinite number of handmade convex mirrors. These unique objects, that originally had strong allegorical and magical meaning, were believed to ward off the evil eye and the witches curse. Found in people houses around XV and XVI centuries, they later worked as monitors in public spaces