New Arrival: Venice La Serenissima

A city that outlasted empires. A book built to match. Bound in Fortuny's metallic fabrics, lined in burgundy silk, and inlaid with wood echoing Venice's lagoon foundations. The Special Edition of Venice: La Serenissima contains sixty defining moments across a millennium, written by historian Alberto Toso Fei, and housed in a clamshell bearing Veronese's Triumph of Mordechai (1556). A thousand years of Venice, bound.

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The Definitive Venice

The Ultimate Edition of Venice: La Serenissima pairs Canaletto's The Bucintoro Returning to the Molo on Ascension Day on its clamshell with Cecil Beaton's iconic photograph from the 1951 Beistegui Ball on the hardcover. Within, historian Alberto Toso Fei traces sixty defining moments across a millennium, drawing from rare archival reproductions, ecclesiastical collections, and works by Helmut Newton and Cecil Beaton. The most magnificent city in the world, in its most magnificent edition.

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Venice, Dressed in Fortuny

Step into a world where history breathes through every thread. We sat down with Mickey Riad, owner and creative director of the iconic Fortuny, to explore what it means to steward one of Venice's most storied artistic legacies, and how timeless craft continues to inspire the modern world.

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Explore scented candles crafted by artisans, designers, and master perfumers—an immersive home fragrance experience inspired by culture, travel, and design.

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