Franco Maria Ricci opens first store outside the Labirinto della Masone in Venice

Franco Maria Ricci Editore is opening a new store in Venice inside the Bottega Cini, marking the first opening outside the Labirinto della Masone in Fontanellato, in the province of Parma. The initiative is in the context of the 61st Venice Art Biennale and includes an inaugural event scheduled for June 25, 2026, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Dorsoduro 862.

Since 2015, the year the Labirinto della Masone was opened to the public, the publishing house has maintained an exclusive link with that space, which has so far housed the brand’s only official bookshop. The new Venetian location thus represents a relevant geographical extension of the publishing network, without interrupting the relationship with the Emilian complex, still the identity center of activities.

The choice of the Bottega Cini is inserted in a central area of the lagoon city, in the so-called Miglio dell’Arte in Dorsoduro, a short distance from the Gallerie dell’Accademia and facing Palazzo Cini. The building is linked to the figure of Count and senator Vittorio Cini, former owner of the mansion, now home to the art collection donated by his daughter Yana Cini Alliata di Montereale in 1984. The initiative is the brainchild of Maria Giovanna Vielli, a professional with long experience in art publishing, in collaboration with Giovanni Alliata di Montereale, Vittorio Cini’s grandson and conservator of the Vittorio Cini Archive Foundation. The project involves the transformation of the Bottega Cini into a space dedicated to the publishing house’s editorial proposal.

The new store houses a wide selection of volumes, with an offering that includes not only art publications but also titles related to different areas of visual and literary culture. The publishing house’s editorial identity remains central, recognizable by elements such as black and gold silk bindings, the use of Bodoni fonts, Fabriano blue paper and a focus on typographic quality and graphic design.

Within the bookstore are the main historical series, including Signs of Man, Quadreria and Biblioteca di Babele. Alongside these are new publications, such as the volume Ertè. Style is Everything, linked to the current exhibition of the same name at the Labirinto della Masone, as well as some reprints of the Il Labirinto scritto series. Also present is the Dédale series, launched in 2025 in collaboration with L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts, which combines literary texts, including rare or little-known ones, with an illustrative apparatus created or selected for the occasion.

A specific space is dedicated to the FMR magazine, historically defined as “the most beautiful magazine in the world,” born in 1982 on the initiative of Franco Maria Ricci and resumed in 2021 with a new editorial course starting with issue zero. The various issues of the new series, including issue 18, scheduled for release to coincide with the summer solstice, are available at Bottega Cini. Bottega Cini is already reported to be open to the public and welcomes visitors and fans from different countries on a daily basis. The official opening on June 25 will include an evening gathering with a toast dedicated to publishing, offered by Freccianera Franciacorta, a wine company long linked to the history of the publishing house since the 1970s.

Franco Maria Ricci opens first store outside the Labirinto della Masone in Venice

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