{"id":7933,"date":"2014-04-27T11:30:15","date_gmt":"2014-04-27T09:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.giberto.it\/departures-magazine-murano-glass\/"},"modified":"2020-07-08T10:49:03","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T08:49:03","slug":"departures-magazine-murano-glass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.giberto.it\/it\/departures-magazine-murano-glass\/","title":{"rendered":"Venice A Glass Of Its Own – DEPARTURES"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]HOME DESIGN – DEPARTURES<\/strong>
\nSpring 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

By Carla Sersale<\/strong><\/p>\n

In a private top-floor apartment, owner Count Giberto Arrivabene Valenti Gonzaga\u2019s treasure trove of antiques and family artifact soffers a true glimpse of life inside Venice\u2019s most important residence.[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

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[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A PALAZZO ON THE GRAND CANAL <\/strong><\/p>\n

Count Giberto Arrivabene Valenti Gonzaga (\u201cGibi\u201d to friends) and Countess Bianca\u2019s attic apartment in Palazzo Papadopoli on Venice\u2019s Grand Canal<\/strong> is a visual testament to their work as keepers of the family archive.<\/p>\n

Brimming with art, furniture, engraved glass and silver objects (many designed by Gibi himself), the imposing 16th-century residence changed hands several times before it was acquired in 1864<\/strong> by the Papadopoli family and turned into a neo-Renaissance masterpiece.<\/p>\n

By way of inheritance (Gibi\u2019s grandfather was a Papadopoli), the Palazzo came to the Arrivabenes; Gibi spent his childhood days in the salons of the Giambattista Tiepolo \u2013 frescoed piano nobile. He, Bianca and their five children have made their home up-stairs since the \u201880s, as various businesses have occupied the lower floors.<\/p>\n

Even so, maintaining a 50,000-square-foot palace is no small task, and last June the palazzo became the Aman Canal Grande Venice<\/strong> after Gibi agreed to rent the property to Aman founder Adrian Zecha for 30 years with one stipulation: that the Arrivabenes remain in their unassuming fifth- floor home as guardians of the family\u2019s noble legacy a top the new age hotel. Herewith, a peek inside Il Palazzo Papadopoli.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\"\"[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row”][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

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