About an hour’s drive from Venice, just between the cities of Vicenza and Verona, is Villa Schroeder-Da Porto: a giant 18th-century palazzo that sits within a remarkably verdant 55,000 square metre park. This is the impressive home of Bottega Veneta: a building which houses the scores of master artisans who construct the intricately-formed knot clutches and hand-woven intrecciato totes upon which the brand has built its name. Wandering through the pristine corridors (complete with…
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