Officina Aldina di Paolo Olbi

Profiles from Venice Original and Homo Faber place Paolo Olbi’s work in Venetian bookbinding. Homo Faber’s narrative, attributed to Olbi, dates the beginning of his artistic craftsmanship to 1962.^[1,2]

A first-person account reproduced by Venice Original places another milestone in 1975, when Olbi says he began a Venetian line of artistic bookbinding gift objects. The account connects the craft to an object-making practice rather than to a single format.^[1,3]

The workshop makes diaries, notebooks, photo albums and folders in leather or eco-leather and marbled paper. These examples show the breadth of objects associated with Olbi’s bookbinding.^[1,3]