After our breakfast, we walked over to the Fortuny Museum. It's a pretty unusual museum. The Fortuny family is one of the leading fabric families of Venice, and is still a pretty big player in the upscale fabric world, especially in the upholstery arena. The museum includes changing exhibits along-side the permanent collection. The walls are draped in historic fabrics, and there are paintings of and by family members. There are a few garments here and there, and family knickknacks, including models of their countryside estates. The rotating exhibits included several photography exhibits, a fascinating color space exhibit "Redshift", an exhibit that combined interior design with art objects, and an exhibit of the collaboration of a modern artist and the fabric production house, including super-high-end textiles.
We passed by this artist's pigment shop on our way to the south of town.
We crossed over Accademia Bridge on our way to the Guggenheim...
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