Born in Venice in 1972, Leo De Carlo is a designer whose career has been shaped by both Italian precision and French sophistication. After graduating in Industrial Design from the Milan Polytechnic in 1998, he joined the legendary Philippe Starck’s studio in Paris, contributing to projects that spanned furniture, lighting, and interiors. The experience refined his ability to balance aesthetic experimentation with functional clarity. In 2003, De Carlo returned to his native Venice — where light, water, and reflection intertwine — and began translating the spirit of his city into contemporary design language. His work is a poetic study of contrasts: solid yet fluid, minimal yet expressive, timeless yet modern. It is this sensitivity that led him to collaborate with Arte Veneziana, a brand that shares his reverence for craftsmanship, materiality, and emotion.

The result of this collaboration is the Canocia Console, a striking piece from De Carlo’s acclaimed MELT Collection. The collection is a metaphoric interpretation of Venice’s surrounding waters, capturing the chromatic changes of the lagoon from dawn to dusk, from one season to another. In the Canocia Console, baked glass tops in layered midnight blue and translucent silver evoke the rippling surface of water, while polished nickel supports give the design its architectural grounding. Every irregular edge, every shifting hue, and every silvery reflection embodies De Carlo’s fascination with Murano’s glass-casting heritage — a craft that transforms fusion and irregularity into beauty. Through this piece, he translates the lagoon’s reflective depth into form, creating furniture that feels almost alive — soft in shape, organic in surface, and deeply Venetian in spirit.

At Arte Veneziana, every creation is a story of mastery and passion — where craftsmanship meets creativity and tradition embraces innovation. The brand’s enduring mission is to preserve the ancient art of Venetian glassmaking while reinterpreting it for the modern world. Each piece is handcrafted in its Venetian atelier, following a process that mirrors a tailor’s bespoke approach — precise, personal, and profoundly human. Their artisans and designers work together as a finely tuned orchestra, where the conductor is quality itself. Rooted in history yet forward-looking, Arte Veneziana continues to define what it means to create haute couture furniture — works of art that illuminate interiors across the globe, proudly carrying the essence of Made in Italy. Made in Venice.