Holding Shape at Signor Blum

Signor Blum has been part of Venice for almost fifty years. A small workshop and shop where objects take shape somewhere between craft and play.

A few years ago, three partners — Luca, Guido and Matteo — took it over. They come from architecture. They studied and worked in Venice, and in 2023 chose to step into something more physical, more direct.

They didn’t change everything. They refined it.

Everything starts from sheets of poplar wood, about two centimetres thick, cut by hand with a scroll saw. Piece by piece.
Everything you see is made in a workshop just a few hundred metres away.

Inside, the space feels open and bright. Colour is everywhere, but always under control. Nothing spills over. A quiet precision runs through everything — you feel it before you even notice it.

There are boats, animals, Venetian buildings. And then smaller worlds: playful, colourful, slightly unexpected. Among them, a small balancing game called Mototopo — named after a traditional Venetian transport boat — built from leftover pieces. Simple elements that shift, tilt and find their own equilibrium.

A place like this invites you to enter slowly. It doesn’t try to convince you.
Spend a few minutes inside and something changes — the way you look, the way you touch, the way you choose.

In a city that often turns into surface, Signor Blum stays material.

www.signorblum.it
Campo San Barnaba, Sestiere Dorsoduro, 2840, 30123 Venezia
+39 0414192692