Stools and tables in limited edition to tell about love for the sea… an ancient seafaring tradition, and culture unite Venice and Genoa.
This year for the first time, Pieces of Venice, together with other outstanding companies, participated in furnishing the prestigious VIP Lounge area designed and curated byCircle Dynamic Luxury Magazine inside the Jean Nouvel pavilion during the 61st Genoa Boat Show.
A space that ensures visitors a perfect welcome, with a focus on exceptional quality and meticulous attention to detail.
The VIP Lounge areas
Our participation, actively encouraged by Margherita Celia Bertolotti, director of Circle Dynamic Luxury Magazine, was an opportunity for us to produce a limited series of 9 sets of stools and tables entitled Campo San Barnaba, some of which have also contributed to furnishing the exterior spaces of the Boat Show’s VIP Lounge.
Campo San Barnaba stools and tables
The tables are inspired by the exceptional work of the architect Edoardo Gellner, while the stools are a faithful reproduction of his designs: the only change is in the material. Here we have used wood from Venice’s oak ‘briccole’, reclaimed after years spent immersed in the waters of the Venetian Lagoon.
Edoardo Gellner
The name Campo San Barnaba was chosen to pay homage to the years architect Edoardo Gellner spent in Venice. He studied architecture at Venice’s IUAV and lived on the third floor of a building in Campo San Barnaba.
Edoardo Gellner was from the seaside town of Opatija and had a passion for boats – as a young man he worked hard to earn the money to purchase his own boat – a passion so great that he was chosen to compete at the Berlin Olympics in 1936, even if he didn’t go …
The church of San Barnaba
From the drawings found, his bedroom faced the canal, therefore presumably above the “sotto-portego” and also overlooked the facade of the church of the same name whose circular rose window is echoed in the shape of the stool.
The stools were produced between the late 1950s and early 1960s as furniture for the colony of Borca di Cadore (ENI Residential Village, commissioned by Enrico Mattei) where the church was designed in collaboration with Carlo Scarpa.
Michele Merlo
The three-legged coffee table was designed by Michele Merlo – who currently leads Studio Gellner – and is inspired by a series of furniture that Gellner made in the 1950s, when he worked with the carpenters of Cortina, and in particular refers to a table with a removable top (originally covered with parchment) that he had exhibited at the 1951 triennial.
This version of the coffee table by Merlo has a removable and reversible top so that it can either be completely flat or with the profile of a tray.
The two versions of the table top
Happy to have accepted the invitation to be part of this splendid space in which elegance, culture, glamor, lifestyle and innovation are the primary elements and characterize the concept of the VIP Lounge 2021, conceived as a meeting platform for new ideas and projects to be implemented in the near future, this year in particular embraced the theme of water and sustainability.
During the event held on 17 September, the architect Dante Benini opened the evening at the round table recounting the evolution of architecture and design relative to new lifestyle concepts, but above all inviting reflection on how every good project, to be defined as such, must start from the heart, go through the head and then arrive at the hand …
And, with this introduction, we at Pieces of Venice were also able to talk about our project – born from our love of Venice, for the environment and for people – and to present the new Campo San Barnaba collection, telling a story that connects love for the sea and for Venice with Edoardo Gellner.
Dante Benini and the guests at the round table – Karin and Luciano from Pieces of Venice – Arteria – Vito Lupo
This year we have also created new objects to decorate the table, a support for the culinary tastings and other events with which the VIP Lounge has delighted its guests, we also created small trays utilizing the famous briccola oak reclaimed from the Venetian lagoon.
Trays for Giorgio Rocchino’s cocktails and for chef Vania Trasatti’s dishes
Finally, a flexible wooden bookmark made exclusively for the splendid Circle Dynamic Luxury Magazine as a souvenir of this impressive edition.
New pieces of Venice, all with a focus on sustainability, a theme very close to our hearts and also the new direction in which this industry is heading…
When the Pieces of Venice project first started in 2017, the feeling that triggered the start-up was the deep love that connected Luciano and Karin – the founding members – to Venice. Luciano Marson designed the first item, Elica, which kicked off this original collection and captivated the admiration and participation of a team of …
When Pieces of Venice started, we wanted our project to be a circular economy project not only aimed at environmental sustainability, but also and above all at social sustainability. We wanted a new way of doing business that looked not only at profit, but at the environment and above all at improving people’s quality of …
Venice has always had to live with the water that surrounds it, and with the erosion that it causes, especially on the shores. That is why the latter are protected by white Istrian stone. In many cases entire areas of the lagoon have been filled in order to enlarge the building zones. Before starting to …
From Venice to Genoa for the VIP Lounge of the 61st Boat Show
Stools and tables in limited edition to tell about love for the sea… an ancient seafaring tradition, and culture unite Venice and Genoa.
This year for the first time, Pieces of Venice, together with other outstanding companies, participated in furnishing the prestigious VIP Lounge area designed and curated by Circle Dynamic Luxury Magazine inside the Jean Nouvel pavilion during the 61st Genoa Boat Show.
A space that ensures visitors a perfect welcome, with a focus on exceptional quality and meticulous attention to detail.
The VIP Lounge areas
Our participation, actively encouraged by Margherita Celia Bertolotti, director of Circle Dynamic Luxury Magazine, was an opportunity for us to produce a limited series of 9 sets of stools and tables entitled Campo San Barnaba, some of which have also contributed to furnishing the exterior spaces of the Boat Show’s VIP Lounge.
Campo San Barnaba stools and tables
The tables are inspired by the exceptional work of the architect Edoardo Gellner, while the stools are a faithful reproduction of his designs: the only change is in the material. Here we have used wood from Venice’s oak ‘briccole’, reclaimed after years spent immersed in the waters of the Venetian Lagoon.
Edoardo Gellner
The name Campo San Barnaba was chosen to pay homage to the years architect Edoardo Gellner spent in Venice. He studied architecture at Venice’s IUAV and lived on the third floor of a building in Campo San Barnaba.
Edoardo Gellner was from the seaside town of Opatija and had a passion for boats – as a young man he worked hard to earn the money to purchase his own boat – a passion so great that he was chosen to compete at the Berlin Olympics in 1936, even if he didn’t go …
The church of San Barnaba
From the drawings found, his bedroom faced the canal, therefore presumably above the “sotto-portego” and also overlooked the facade of the church of the same name whose circular rose window is echoed in the shape of the stool.
The stools were produced between the late 1950s and early 1960s as furniture for the colony of Borca di Cadore (ENI Residential Village, commissioned by Enrico Mattei) where the church was designed in collaboration with Carlo Scarpa.
Michele Merlo
The three-legged coffee table was designed by Michele Merlo – who currently leads Studio Gellner – and is inspired by a series of furniture that Gellner made in the 1950s, when he worked with the carpenters of Cortina, and in particular refers to a table with a removable top (originally covered with parchment) that he had exhibited at the 1951 triennial.
This version of the coffee table by Merlo has a removable and reversible top so that it can either be completely flat or with the profile of a tray.
The two versions of the table top
Happy to have accepted the invitation to be part of this splendid space in which elegance, culture, glamor, lifestyle and innovation are the primary elements and characterize the concept of the VIP Lounge 2021, conceived as a meeting platform for new ideas and projects to be implemented in the near future, this year in particular embraced the theme of water and sustainability.
During the event held on 17 September, the architect Dante Benini opened the evening at the round table recounting the evolution of architecture and design relative to new lifestyle concepts, but above all inviting reflection on how every good project, to be defined as such, must start from the heart, go through the head and then arrive at the hand …
And, with this introduction, we at Pieces of Venice were also able to talk about our project – born from our love of Venice, for the environment and for people – and to present the new Campo San Barnaba collection, telling a story that connects love for the sea and for Venice with Edoardo Gellner.
Dante Benini and the guests at the round table – Karin and Luciano from Pieces of Venice – Arteria – Vito Lupo
This year we have also created new objects to decorate the table, a support for the culinary tastings and other events with which the VIP Lounge has delighted its guests, we also created small trays utilizing the famous briccola oak reclaimed from the Venetian lagoon.
Trays for Giorgio Rocchino’s cocktails and for chef Vania Trasatti’s dishes
Finally, a flexible wooden bookmark made exclusively for the splendid Circle Dynamic Luxury Magazine as a souvenir of this impressive edition.
New pieces of Venice, all with a focus on sustainability, a theme very close to our hearts and also the new direction in which this industry is heading…
Photo credits: copyright Circleluxurymagazine / I Saloni Nautici VIP Lounge 2021
Related Posts
Save Venice one piece at a time. Participate in cleaning up the city with us.
When the Pieces of Venice project first started in 2017, the feeling that triggered the start-up was the deep love that connected Luciano and Karin – the founding members – to Venice. Luciano Marson designed the first item, Elica, which kicked off this original collection and captivated the admiration and participation of a team of …
The collaboration with FUTURA FACTORY – a solidarity factory
When Pieces of Venice started, we wanted our project to be a circular economy project not only aimed at environmental sustainability, but also and above all at social sustainability. We wanted a new way of doing business that looked not only at profit, but at the environment and above all at improving people’s quality of …
Venice, surrounded by water, built on wood
Venice has always had to live with the water that surrounds it, and with the erosion that it causes, especially on the shores. That is why the latter are protected by white Istrian stone. In many cases entire areas of the lagoon have been filled in order to enlarge the building zones. Before starting to …