An independent practice, on the client’s side.
Gibson is the project management practice of Mateus Gibson, based in Venice and working for clients anywhere.
Projects rarely fail for lack of talent. They drift in the space between people.
A brief that each party reads differently. Decisions left open while the work moves on. Quotes and changes accepted without being weighed. And nobody holding the whole picture.
That is where Gibson works: on the client’s side, keeping designers, makers and contractors to one plan, checking the work where it happens, and saying plainly where things stand.
The whole project held together, from Venice.
Most of that space is about people: knowing whom to call, how a counterpart reads a request, when a yes really means yes. Mateus Gibson is settled in Venice and works in English and Italian, at ease with both Italian and international ways of doing business.
His training is in architecture and project development. His experience includes coordinating design teams across countries on high-end projects in Italy, among them five-star hotels. The method carries to any project: a clear brief, the right people, follow-through to the end.
- Based in
- Venice, Italy
- Working
- Across Italy and internationally
- Languages
- English · Italiano
- Background
- Architecture and project development
Discreet, senior, present when it matters.
Discreet
Client matters stay confidential by default. Gibson does not publish client names, and a confidentiality agreement can be signed before anything is shared.
Senior
Led from start to finish by Mateus Gibson, with the right specialists brought in as the project needs them.
Present when it matters
Close to the project at every stage, and there in person for the moments that decide the outcome: a site meeting, an approval, an installation, a delivery.
Venice leaves nothing to chance.
Every delivery comes by boat, almost every building is protected, and a date can depend on the tide. Working here means thinking each step through before it is taken, and that care goes into every Gibson project, wherever it is.
By water
Materials, furniture and artworks travel by boat, through narrow canals and over bridges, in slots set by tides and traffic rules. Schedules are built around access before anything else.
On heritage
Most buildings carry centuries of history and the protections that come with it. Work on them takes conservation specialists, the right approvals and long lead times, known from the start.
Among makers
Glass, terrazzo, stone, plaster and textiles are made by hand in and around the city, and the furniture and manufacturing districts of the Northeast are a few hours away.
In front of the world
The Biennale, the exhibitions, the fairs and the hotels bring international clients here every year. Working across languages, time zones and expectations is part of the everyday.