A family in Venice keeps alive the ancient craft of gold beating, rethinking the future through innovative projects. In the twenty-first century, being born in a family of craftsmen and living in a dreamy city such as Venice, in someone’s eyes may seem the weirdest thing. And choosing to learn your father’s profession in order to preserve the artisanal heritage must not be the easiest decision. Yet, the young Eleonora, who’s working with her family in Mario Berta Battiloro’s

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