The age-old Squero di San Trovaso has been the place where traditional Venetian boats, in particular, gondolas, the city’s symbol all over the world, have been built and repaired since the 1600s. A magical place where Lorenzo, the current squerariól and owner, has been working for about thirty years. Considering how often these fascinating boats need maintenance, as the average lifespan is about fifty years, repairing constitutes a significant part of the activity. But the Squero also builds new boats, usually one per year. The building of a gondola, in fact, takes two to three months of non-stop work and 280 pieces of wood from eight different essences. No preliminary design or drawing, all the knowledge is handed down from one generation to the next, just like Lorenzo is doing with his son Alberto.
Monday to Friday 8 am to 5 pm by appointment
- http://www.squerosantrovaso.com
Saverio Pastor, the brains and soul behind Le fórcole, is the senior member of the group of Venetian rowers and the trusted supplier of gondoliers and Veneto-style rowing lovers from all over the world since 1981. At his workshop, together with Pietro Meneghini, he makes beech and ramin-wood oars, walnut, pear and cherry wood rowlocks […]
Venezia
Miscellaneous and curios
Piero Dri has been performing one of Venice’s most traditional and oldest crafts, that is, the remèr, the artisan who makes the typical Venetian forcolas, the rowlocks in which the gondolier’s oar rests, for 15 years. After a few years of training, he started his own workshop in 2013, the Forcolaio Matto, where every day, […]
Venezia
Miscellaneous and curios
Operating in Venice since 1968, the Fallani Venezia silk-screen printing workshop prints top-quality editions, by putting its technical and artistic expertise to the disposal of painters, sculptors, photographers, illustrators, street artists and graphic and fashion designers and by interpreting and translating their different expressive languages into graphics. Fiorenzo Fallani has created over 1,000 editions for […]
Venezia
Miscellaneous and curios
Antique or ultramodern fireplaces, in marble, wood, cast iron and stone, electric, gas or alcohol-fueled, just steps away from the San Lorenzo Columns. Now run by the founding family’s fourth-generation members, the business was started in the late 1800s. Today, Giuseppe Vigorelli, his wife Marisa, the daughter Barbara and the son Federico welcome customers from […]
Milano
