Travel Reference
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Paper is anything but two-dimensional here: paper maestro Fernando di Masone
embosses and sculpts handmade cotton paper into seamless raw-edged lamp-
shades, hand-bound sketchbooks and paper versions of marble friezes that would
seem equally at home in a Greek temple or a modern loft. White gloves are handy
for easy, worry-free browsing; paper-sculpting courses are available by prior re-
quest. (
041 524 12 83;
www.cartavenezia.it
; Calle Lunga 2125, Santa Croce;
11am-1pm &
3.30-7.30pm Tue-Sat, 3.30-7.30pm Mon;
San Stae)
30
Dietro L'Angolo
DESIGN STORE
Find modern Italian designs on a backstreet behind I Frari, with affordable, ori-
ginal pieces by young local and international designers. Blue pigeon earrings bring
back San Marco memories, charming rat puppets support a local shelter, and
herringbone-tweed cocktail rings with Murano-glass centres remind you it's time
for a
spritz
. (
041 524 30 71;
www.dietrolangolo2657.com
;
Calle Seconda dei Saoneri 2657, San
Polo;
San Tomà)
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I Vetri a Lume di Amadi
ARTISANAL, GLASS
Glass menageries don't get more fascinating than the one created before your eyes
by Signor Amadi. Fierce little glass crabs approach pink-tipped sea anemones, and
glass peas spill from a speckled pea pod. You might be tempted to swat at eerily
lifelike glass mosquitoes, and the outlines of galloping horses in blue glass would
do Picasso proud. (
041 523 80 89; Calle Saoneri 2747, San Polo;
9am-12.30pm & 3-6pm
Mon-Sat;
San Tomà)
32
VizioVirtù
ARTISANAL, CHOCOLATE
