Word: squero
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...more efficient, what has most rekindled craftsmanship across Europe is the growing market for something distinctive in a world of sameness. It is this, together with newfound respect for those who made great works without great machines, that has Thom Price, a 31-year-old American, working in a squero, a traditional Venetian gondola workshop. Or that finds Australian enologist David Baverstock producing award-winning wines from old grape varieties found only in Portugal...
When Thom Price arrived in Venice in 1996, he didn't know much Italian. He did, however, know the word squero - the workshop in which gondolas are made - and searched the phone book...
...found absolutely nothing. Not even under "boats" was there any hint of gondolas. So he began wandering around the city. He eventually stumbled across the Squero San Trovaso, and with the help of a translator told the men working there that he had experience building wooden boats and that he'd like to learn how to make a gondola. The craftsmen informed this smart American kid that they didn't have time for on-the-job training. "Their attitude was that if I had graduated from college, I obviously didn't know how to work with my hands," recalls Price...
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