Luca Bombassei
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BELLA VENEZIA

With an outlook stretching across the canals of Venice, the centuries-old apartment of architect Luca Bombassei serves as both a place of respite and an endless source of profound inspiration.

Homes are not meant to be static. They are living, ever-changing totems to the lives who inhabit their spaces — not only their aesthetic choices, but the steps they have taken, the windows they have looked out of, the walls they have touched, their very breath.

Architect and art collector Luca Bombassei knows this to be true, and his three-bed, five-bath home in Venice’s Dorsoduro district, which spans two levels over the second noble floor of Palazzo Contarini Corfù, is a testament to this vision. “Palazzo Contarini Corfù is a historic Venetian palace whose origins date back seven centuries,” he says. […]

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