15 Best Shopping in Venice, Italy

A tiny bottega near Campo San Polo is run by a team of young goldsmiths and jewelry designers specializing in inlaid stones and mosaic tesserae. The work on display in their shop is exceptional, and they also create customized pieces.

Exquisite earrings, rings, necklaces, and brooches are studded with diamonds, rubies, or emeralds in this shop owned by the Nardi family since the 1920s.

This fascinating shop stocks antique jewelry from Europe and Asia, along with stunning Venetian glass beads.

One stop might fit the bill when you've got last-minute gifts to buy: American Theresa works only with Murano artisans and offers an abundant, tasteful selection of reasonably priced beads, vases, goblets, and jewelry, even mirrors and chandeliers.

Celebrated brothers Daniele and Stefano blend and weave copper and silver wire with Murano glass beads to render stylish, contemporary pieces with a timeless feel.

American-born but Venetian by choice, glass-bead artist Trina Tygrett opened her studio after completing her studies at the city's Academy of Fine Arts. She married into one of the oldest surviving families of traditional Venetian glassblowing and was able to study some of the older techniques founded on Murano. Her signature jewelry is a breath of fresh air as she mixes her beads with materials such as metal fabric, silver, and precious stones to create unique and eclectic pieces. A second shop is only a few steps away at Dorsoduro 167.

Name a gemstone—aquamarine, garnet, jade, amber, opal— and you will almost certainly find it here, in both classic and unique settings from traditional to gorgeous. This is the ideal place to find a special piece featuring your birthstone.

This is the retail outlet for Leslie Ann Genninger, an American from Ohio who was the first woman to enter the male-dominated world of Murano master bead-makers. She established her own line of jewelry, called Murano Class Act, in 1994 using period-glass beads, and when she could no longer find antique beads she started designing her own.

Classic handmade jewelry here includes pieces made with semiprecious stones.

Creative earrings, brooches, and necklaces are done in colored resin that looks as fragile as glass but is as strong and soft as rubber. Silk shoes can be custom "garnished" with jewelry.

French-born owner-designer Claudia Puschi travels across Europe to fill her store with eclectic and intriguing home accessories and jewelry. Her unique items can't be found anywhere else in the city; in fact, she herself designed many of the purses you'll see in the store—which she deftly and stylishly transformed from a former butcher shop.

The beautiful and elegant glass jewelry of Marina and Susanna Sent has been featured in Vogue. Look also for vases and other exceptional design pieces. Other locations are on the Fondamenta Serenella on Murano and in San Polo under the Sotoportego dei Oresi at Rialto.

The enticing selection of tasteful Murano glass accessories, figures, and chalices at Rose Douce includes jewelry made with antique Murano beads and braided gold.

Established in 1857, Salvadori features sparkling diamonds and other precious stones set in the shop's own designs. They have two other shops in Piazza San Marco that specialize in watches: Boutique Rolex (Piazza San Marco 44) and Panerai Venezia (Piazza San Marco 47).