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Stefania Giannici

Stefania Giannici Paper worker
Contact
Italian, English
Hours:
Monday to Friday 10:30 - 18:00; Saturday 11:00 - 17:00 (April - October)
Phone:
+39 0414761974
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Papers with a strong personality

  • • Stefania is a self-taught paper artist
  • • Her creative method is experimental
  • • She uses papers from all over the world

In her paper art studio and shop in Venice, Stefania Giannici creates home design objects, boxes, notebooks, toys, jewels, origami, custom pieces and even some Venice landscapes “in a box”. Bewitched by paper and its huge creative potential since she was a child, Stefania attended origami, bookbinding and decoration courses while studying communication and art events management. Only years later, has paper become her job. Now Stefania designs and makes original articles, renowned for being enchanting and resistant at the same time, starting from the choice of the paper, among a wide variety of precious productions from all over the world: “Every kind of high quality paper has its special personality I have to listen to”, she says.

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Works

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  • ©Stefania Giannici
  • ©Stefania Giannici
Photo: ©Shana Carrara
Iconic collar: Kinkakuji 2

This sophisticated and very light lace is created with paper beads. Conceived, designed and made by hand, with attention to the smallest details, all collars are unique pieces, with the distinctive mark of Stefania Giannici’s hand. Crafted from over 200 paper beads made with a quilling technique and mounted to form a lace, every collar is as tight as a classic choker and adjustable.

Diameter 13 cm

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Mini block-notes

The binding of these hand-bound block-notes have been left visible according to the Japanese tradition. The cover is covered with traditional hand decorated “paste paper”.

Length 6 cm
Width 8.5 cm
Height 0.5 cm

Photo: ©Stefania Giannici
Two totem

Two totem: Thinking to Wes Anderson are twin boxes conceived, designed and made by hand, with Finnish cardboard and covered with two different qualities of Japanese paper – outside a “salt air” satogami paper, inside a coral red Chiyogami patterned paper.

Length 20 cm
Width 20 cm
Height 24 cm

Photo: ©Stefania Giannici
Venice in a box

This series comprises three-dimensional paper miniatures of Venetian monuments, palaces, churches and places within a cardboard box. This particular reproduction of the Bridge of Sigh is made with ink on paper. Venice in a box is part of Stefania Giannici’s “Kintsugi collection” that shows the fragility of this city and suggests that is necessary to take care of it.

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