Bottega for Bottegas 2025: A toast to the workshops
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January 08, 2026
Bottega for Bottegas 2025: A toast to the workshops
Just in time for the festive season, Bottega for Bottegas returns. This 2025 selection honours artisanal excellence in places that have profoundly shaped the House, while celebrating the much-loved aperitivo hour that is a staple of Italian culture and the festive season.
An Enduring Commitment to Craft
2025 marks the fifth consecutive edition of Bottega for Bottegas, first born as a solidarity project in 2021. With many small-scale artisans significantly impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic, Bottega Veneta partnered with 12 small, independent bottegas across Italy, and shared with them the visibility of the house’s advertising spaces, website, newsletters, and store windows.
From Amatruda in Campania, which has a 750-year history of papermaking, to Pastificio Martelli in Tuscany, renowned for its artisanal pasta, the project recognized independent artisans across the country who shared in Bottega Veneta core principles of craft and creativity, while lending support and solidarity to small, independent retailers in a particularly challenging climate.
A Christmas carol of craft
Since 2021, Bottega for Bottegas has evolved into an annual showcase of artisanal excellence and innovation. In 2022, the project featured artisan products from around the world who drew inspiration from Italian culture, including a gelato scoop by Rockledge Farm Woodworkers in Vermont and espresso mugs by Japanese ceramicist, Yoshiaki Imamura. In 2023, Bottega for Bottegas spotlit artisans who preserve unique craft traditions, from the traditional kites Bangpae Yeon (방패연) to intricate Chinese woodwork. In 2024, the House returned to its roots and brought together artisans from in and around Venice, including the brass foundry of Fonderia Artistica Valese and the Murano glass artisan Bruno Amadi.
Silver, paper, and spirit: the 2025 Bottega for Bottegas selection
For the 2025 edition of Bottega for Bottegas, the House further recognizes artisanal excellence from Venice, alongside creatives in two other cities integral to Bottega Veneta’s story: New York and Milan. It was on Madison Avenue in New York that the House opened, in 1972, its very first store.
From this inaugural boutique, Bottega Veneta reached new levels of cultural recognition while forging formative relationships with the creative scene, not least Andy Warhol Studios and his Interview magazine. In the late 1990s, Bottega Veneta moved its design office from Vicenza to Milan, where it continues to house its headquarters and host its shows.
Honouring these three cities, the 2025 Bottega for Bottegas collection includes two silverplate glasses by Ganci Argenterie in Milan; Sterling silver cocktail sticks, with a knot detail, by Heath Wagoner in New York; and a handbound notebook by Paolo Olbi in Venice, imagined as a journal for drink recipes or evening reflections.
The bottega as a shared place
As epitomized by this winter initiative, the artisanal workshop is at the heart of Bottega Veneta, whose name translates to “Venetian workshop”. Eschewing logos and the names of founders, the House chose instead to identify with a shared place, rooting itself both in the richness of the Veneto region and in the collective space of craft, creativity, and collaboration that is the “bottega”.
The ethos of the “bottega” distinguishes Bottega Veneta’s making to this day. At the House’s atelier in Montebello Vicentino, near Vicenza, artisans work together at intergenerational tables, nurturing the exchange of skills and ideas, and ensuring the protection and transmission of the brand’s precious savoir-faire from one generation to the next—a commitment to craft that Bottega for Bottegas now celebrates in workshops beyond its own walls.
