The Silver Book by Olivia Laing Peter Hujar the studio where Casanova’s Venice

the studio where Casanova’s Venice will be ingeniously assembled

The Last Basket Makers from Risa refers to a lineage of artisans producing the enigmatic Hedared basket—from Lennart

Designed as a field handbook

these texts combine the subjective and analytic

an errand boy

The Silver Book by Olivia Laing Peter Hujar the studio where Casanova’s VeniceIt is dangerous to want someone this much. He has always known it, from the very first night. It is September 1974. Two men meet by chance in Venice. One is a young English artist, in panicked flight from London. The other is Danilo Donati, the magician of Italian cinema, the designer responsible for realising the spectacular visions of Fellini and Pasolini. Donati is in Venice to produce sketches for Fellinis Casanova. A young and beautiful