Torcello, Evan &Brown's homage to the beauty and exoticism of Renaissance Venice, combines the period's wood block, textile-printing techniques with the traditional symbol of hospitality, the pineapple. Venetian merchants plied the trade routes returning with extradordinary wares from Persia, the Ottoman Empire and China which inspired Venetian artists to create unique, opulent patterns in celebration of the wealth and power of their empire.