This book tells an uncommon story about one of the most famous places in the world. The city of Venice, with its wealth of water and marble, owes its birth expressly to wood, to the thousands of logs supporting the weight of its palazzi and churches, its shops and museums. On this photographic and textual journey, the reader will discover the at times invisible presence of this material and its various transformations that pervade the urban Venetian landscape: a setting composed of gondolas, altane (roof terraces), bricole (pilings), forcole (oarlocks), landing stages, doorways, furniture, squeri (gondola yards) and the many other riches that this city has given the world.
Aline Cendon Boeken
