For her silver wedding anniversary with the Serenissima, author Servane Giol opens the doors of Palazzo Falier Canossa, her childhood home on the Grand Canal, known for its Gothic allure. A 15th-century residence marked by the legend of a cursed doge…
She says she has “the most beautiful office in the world, overlooking the Grand Canal,” but strangely enough, her desk turns its back on her. “Otherwise I wouldn’t be able to concentrate on writing my books. My eye would be constantly drawn to the navigation, the light moving across the water and its swell.” Servane Giol has just finished rereading the proofs of her latest work, The Queen of the Dolomites: Living in Cortina d’Ampezzo, dedicated to her family’s uber-chic Italian ski and winter resort. “I spend long afternoons on this ‘liagò,’ a Venetian balcony that is now closed from the outside. In the Middle Ages, it was one of the palace’s two open terraces. You can still see the sloping ground surface that was used to drain rainwater.”
The office of Servane Giol, here dressed in a luminous Saloni dress, is located in a “liagò”, a former terrace…
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