Architect Luca Bombassei's 15th-century Palazzo Contarini Corfù overlooking the Grand Canal belongs in a category all its own. It is nearly 6,500 square feet of light-flooded rooms, three exposures, and five centuries of Venetian memory, reimagined by a collector who refuses to let any single...
"Classicism is health." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Classicism is not a single style but a recurring instinct. It is the belief that order, symmetry, and the architecture of antiquity are the truest expressions of power and taste. In France, this instinct surfaced again and again across...
Summer is especially magical in Venice. The light turns thick and golden over the lagoon and on the island of Murano, a maestro is pulling a molten ribbon of color from the furnace that will outlast the season by a century. At Jean-Marc Fray Antiques,...
https://www.instagram.com/p/DZe4HVAipff/ Throughout his life, artist David Hockney made the act of looking an act of joy. Across seven decades, simple spaces such as a swimming pool, a hedge, or a friend's living room could become, in his hands, a small revelation about how human eyes actually...
"Beads fill the spaces between things. They don't get in the way." — Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker There is a particular kind of summer book for when we most want to be transported. For those of us who love the water and light of Venice, the...
"Glass is not a craft. It is a language." — Adriano Berengo Venice has had a long relationship with glass. For centuries, the furnaces of Murano have shaped the city's identity as surely as its canals and campanili. This year, Glasstress will take place in Venice...
With summer setting in, we at Jean-Marc Fray are drawn to the colors and textures of the season. Especially inspired by the beaches of southern France and Italy, the tones of summer can be found throughout our gallery. The hues of the water, the sky,...
A sculptor, metalworker, and visionary decorator, Jean Dunand transformed ancient techniques into some of the most celebrated objects of the twentieth century and became synonymous with the pinnacle of Art Deco craftsmanship. His lacquered vases, monumental screens, and lavishly appointed interiors remain among the most...
Walnut: The Wood of the French Countryside At Jean-Marc Fray Antiques, we are drawn to objects that carry more than beauty, we are drawn to the ones that carry meaning. Pieces whose wood, joinery, and proportion tell a longer story than any single owner could. Among...
"Art is a space for connection, imagination, and sharing." — Koyo Kouoh, curator of the 2026 Venice Biennale and head of Zeitz MOCAA Venice has a way of making everything feel charged with meaning. With the light off the water, there is a sense that centuries of...