Metamorphosing Venice
Floating somewhere between myth and legend, past and present, it is a sea-kissed dream of a city, a time-carved marvel that haunts the imagination. Venice. The Queen of the Adriatic, the City of Masks, the City of Bridges, La Serenissima. This multi-faceted Italian treasure was Pierre Toutain-Dorbec’s sanctuary and home-away-from-home, spanning the years 1968-2005, while he kept an apartment there from 1995-2000. Now, as both a chronologically diverse testament to the culture and complexion of Venice, as well as a valentine and homage to the city that’s been Toutain-Dorbec’s mistress and muse, comes this book of intimate “souvenirs.” Photographs, poems, and short stories reflect and honor the Floating City from countless angles and perspectives, while indelibly juxtaposing the classic and the modern, the timeless and the ephemeral. Metamorphosing Venice is one man’s inspired love-letter and tribute to a city that continues to exist as an immutable feast for the senses.