Designers react to the Venetian landscape for Carpenters Workshop Gallery

As the boundaries between design and art blur ever further, this year’s Venice Biennale welcomes design fair NOMAD (for a few days in September) and Carpenters Workshop Gallery for a full six month stint. Makers such as Vincenzo de Cotiis, Maarten Baas and Studio Job have barely closed the shutters on Salone del Mobile in Milan before they open them again in Venice. And they are not the only ones: for its biennale debut, Carpenters Workshop, in partnership with Lombard Odier, has brought a further 14 of its designers to Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca’ d’Oro, a palazzo with a big presence on the Grand Canal.

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