The Bottega Veneta atelier, located in a historic 18th-century villa in Montebello Vicentino, about an hour’s drive from Venice, is a valentine to haute artisanal values. Villa Schroeder-Da Porto, as it is formally known, is the architectural embodiment of the famously logo-less company’s catchphrase, “When your own initials are enough.”

The sprawling campus, which underwent a major renovation in 2013, is as lacking in superfluousness as the label’s perennially popular, unadorned Cabat bag. A mainstay of the Bottega Veneta universe, the Cabat has been reimagined over the years in various sizes and guises, including mini, small, medium, and large versions; this year, there is a new frayed-edge iteration.

Introduced in 2001 by then creative director Tomas Maier, the unlined, rectangular-sh

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