WOODEN SPLENDOUR
Aug 09, 2019
4 minutes
TEXT WALTER DE VRIES
PHOTOGRAPHY
WOUTER JANSEN
TRANSLATION
MARLEEN VAN DIJK
“It all started here” says Andrea Tagliapietra. We are in an enormous hall in the basement of the Palazzo Fortuny, a gothic palazzo from the 16th century located in the middle of central Venice, that nowadays houses a museum. A small canal along the premises gives out onto the renowned Canal Grande. “My father Dino opened a wharf here in 1967 where gondolas were made and restored. He had been taught the techniques by my grandfather, who worked for a gondola builder in the Castello quarter and later for the famous Cantiere Navale Celli. It was just a matter of course that my brother Luca and I would continue the business. But very
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