DESIGN.VE: Design Walks Through Venice

Wood Obession. Photography by Cristina Galliena Bohman.

Loredan Maggiore Design. Photography by Cristina Galliena Bohman.

In The Mood For Glass. Photography by Cristina Galliena Bohman.

Venetian Monkey’s Forest. Photography by Alberto Salata.

Curated by Francesca Giubilei and Luca Berta, DESIGN.VE is a brand new event taking place during the first month of the Venice Biennale of Architecture 2016. The event creates design pathways across the city featuring more than 80 projects, cross-pollinating design creativity and unused spaces of the urban context in Venice.

Historic buildings, hidden cloisters, design boutiques, private galleries and unexpected places become the key points of DESIGN.VE design walks through the city. The event is characterised with an alternating mix of emerging designers with well established brands, industrial products with unique limited edition works, site-specific installations with collective exhibitions of contemporary design, or design names that have gone down in history and have become real international icons.

Corse by Giraldi + Calenda Design.

Craft Combine Plate.

Cucula by Verena Bruening.

Pattened Pallet Chair by Craft Combine.

DESIGN.VE presents the work of more than 80 designers and artists in 12 different locations concentrated around two main areas: the Accademia/Zattere – close to some of the most important cultural sites of Venice such as Punta della Dogana, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and the renewed Gallerie dell’Accademia; and the Castello area – the cross point of the paths leading to the Giardini and the Arsenale, two significant Biennale venues.

The two main collective exhibitions, focussing on the issue of design from two opposite point of views are Wood Obsession at the L’innovazione nel segno della storia (Innovation in the Sign of History), curated by Maggiore Design, under the guidance of Roberta Calarota and Simonetta Vespa, being held in Palazzo Loredan. The second exhibition is titled In The Mood For Glass, taking place at Sant’Anna Project Space, featuring the works of some of the best artists and designers expressing themselves in this medium. As one would expect, Murano glass plays the leading role, with notable objects such as the refined sculpture dress by Marina and Susanna Sent, contemporary interoperation of a traditional chandelier by Fabio Fornasier, amongst many others.

DESIGN.VE runs from 25 May to 26 June 2016.
Venice Art Factory, Venice.