Paolo Olbi: Preserving Venetian Bookbinding
The complex patterns and brilliant colors are the first things you observe when visiting Paolo Olbi’s bookshop in Venice, Italy, next to the Ca’ Foscari bridge. His meticulously arranged handmade books, notebooks, and stationery are like antique postcards. Paolo Olbi, a 78-year-old native Venetian who is well dressed and groomed, is both a caregiver and ...