An examination of the Olivetti store in Venice, Piazza San Marco -- a true icon of Italian architecture of the twentieth century restored in the 1950s by Carlo Scarpa.

Il tema di questa 19. Mostra Internazionale di Architettura invita architetti e designer a comportarsi come “agenti mutageni”, apprendendo dalle altre discipline e portando avanti processi evolutivi ...

The design duo Formafantasma – Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin – once again shines a spotlight on the issues of planned obsolescence and electronic waste. Their exhibition The Shape of Things to ...

Carlo Scarpa was an Italian architect and designer whose enigmatic works combined the influences of Venetian architecture, Japanese aesthetics, and Modernism. Scarpa’s compelling furniture, housewares ...

Fino al 6 gennaio 2026, nel Negozio Olivetti di Venezia, diciassette sculture in vetro di Murano intrecciano architettura, ...

Architect Carlo Scarpa took the traditions of Venetian glassblowing and created some of the 20th century’s most dazzling conceits. A selection of his visionary pieces will be offered at Christie’s in ...

The Olivetti store in Venice, now entrusted to Fai, is located under the porticos of the Procuratie Vecchie in St. Mark's Square. Carlo Scarpa, commissioned by Adriano Olivetti in 1957, completely ...

If there is one city you do not visit for its modern architecture, you might think it would be Venice — the seductive Serenissima, seemingly floating, ethereal and eternal, its cityscape completely ...

Born in 1906, Scarpa worked across a wide range of scales, from shop-fitting to furniture, mausoleums to expansive restorations and extensions. His wasn’t an especially high-profile career, and at the ...

Following her participation in the 2011 Venice Biennale, New York-based artist Carol Bove was invited by curator Pavel Pyś to make an exhibition for the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds. As a foil for ...