My Art, Your Cart: Falling for Venice M'Art

Part concept store, part art gallery, part very stylish corner shop, Venice M'Art is the retail soul of The Venice Venice Hotel. Golden Goose sneakers, a striped Moka pot and a boiler suit you will absolutely convince yourself you need.

Most hotel gift shops are where good taste goes to die. A rack of scarves, a shelf of overpriced fridge magnets, maybe a branded pen if you are lucky. Venice M'Art is the glorious opposite of all that, and it is one of the few shops in Venice where you might genuinely walk out with something you will still love in ten years.

Let us start with the name, because it tells you everything. Venice M'Art. Say it out loud and it does three things at once: it is a market, it is "my art," and it is a wink at the whole idea of a hotel mart being anything as ordinary as a shop. That triple pun is peak Postvenezianità, the anticipatory design philosophy that runs through The Venice Venice Hotel, the Grand Canal palazzo revival dreamed up by Alessandro Gallo and Francesca Rinaldo, the couple behind Golden Goose. If you have read our Francy's piece, you know the address. This is the same building's retail alter ego, tucked into the Sottoportego gallery under a bold red and white stripe treatment that pulls you off the calle and straight into the fun.

It opened in August 2024, and it behaves less like a boutique and more like a gallery that happens to let you buy things. The vibe is industrial bones with pop-art flair, a bit of streetwear edge, and just enough Venetian mischief to stop it feeling like an airport lounge. You can browse the art, poke at the design pieces, grab a coffee and an informal aperitivo, and leave with a tote you did not know you wanted. It is open to anyone wandering past, not just guests, which is exactly as it should be.

Now, the good stuff. Naturally, there is Golden Goose, including limited editions you will not find in every high-street window, given whose shop this technically is. But the joy of M'Art is the company Golden Goose keeps. There are Converse Chuck 70s in lovely muted colourways (Twilight, Thyme Again, around €125 to €135), American workwear from cult label Camber USA, K-Way, the stationery obsessive's beloved Penco, flags from Oxford Pennant, and a house line under The Erose that swings from a €39 beanie to a €3,900 Abbot Stool without blinking. There is even a Carl Hansen & Søn CH20 Elbow Chair in an exclusive edition, for the shopper whose hand luggage is a shipping container.

But the objects that made me smile most are the small, silly, perfect ones. The special-edition Bialetti Moka Express, done up in M'Art stripes and starting around €35, is the single most giftable thing in Venice and I will not be taking questions. There is a Venice M'Art Carry Bag at €95 that does the quiet-flex thing beautifully, a Cicheti Bowl at €13 and a Dinner Plate at €19 for anyone building the dream Venetian table, a Cappuccino Cup at €21, and an M'Art pennant to pin above your desk like a design-nerd trophy. There is a Brass Bòcolo Pin at €85, named for the little rose Venetians give each other on Saint Mark's day, which is the sort of local detail that shows someone here actually cares.

And then there is the Bakery Corner capsule, a run of sweatshirts, tees and beanies (roughly €35 to €75) built around a fictional bakery that exists purely as an excuse for excellent merch. The beanie sells out. Of course it does. If you want the boiler suit at €395, that is a commitment, but it is also the most Venice-M'Art thing in the building: workwear reframed as an object of desire, sitting a few feet from a chair that costs more than your flight.

What ties it all together is that nothing here feels like a souvenir and everything feels chosen. It is a merchant's crossroads reimagined for people who care about design, which is the oldest Venetian story going, just with better sneakers. Go in for a coffee, tell yourself you are only looking, and try, really try, to leave without the striped Moka pot. I did not manage it, and I regret nothing.

Explore the full range at venicemart.com.

Venice M'Art is the concept store inside The Venice Venice Hotel: Golden Goose, striped Bialetti pots, Converse, Camber USA and design pieces, all with pop-art swagger.

Venice M'Art storefront with giant red three-dimensional

A person layered in a stack of Venice M'Art sweatshirts in grey, navy, cream and black, topped with a straw boater hat banded in Venice M'Art ribbon, against a dark green panelled wall.

Brick-wall display at Venice M'Art showing