"There are places in Venice where ingenuity, calm, and patience are key to keeping a tradition alive"
Roberto is the father and Marta the daughter, respectively the second and third generation of Vergombello (after the grandfather, Guido) who have been creating jewelry in Venice since 1932. This is a goldsmith's workshop located in a "corte sconta" a stone's throw from St. Mark's Square, which the owners themselves define as "a small workshop, not easy to find but hard to forget". Here they create the famous "moretti", a typical Venetian production in ebony and precious stones, but also rings with special opening mechanisms as in the novels of yesteryear: unique pieces of fine jewelry, with attention to every small detail, small miniature sculptures. In the eyes of these master artisans shines the passion for this craft while they share the technique of "lost wax casting" - a technique now used in place of the more ancient "cuttlebone cast" - and for which they use tools as old as files and hacksaws as well as hundreds and hundreds of tips of different sizes used to shape and set their creations.