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Ca’Øriginale
Carta e Segno
Art·Venice, Italy · Veneto

Carta e Segno

Letterpress and marbled paper, by the lagoon.

Why it’s a hidden gem

In a damp ground-floor studio that floods twice a year, two printers keep a craft most museums only display. They marble paper in a tray of size and pigment, each sheet a one-time event, then print on a cast-iron press older than the Republic of Italy.

The "seal" aesthetic of this whole project — the stamp, the carved mark — owes a debt to their work.