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redazione 15/07/2024

Geminiano Cozzi Venezia 1765: 250 years of refinement

A famous Venetian porcelain workshop, and the passion of an entrepreneur who decides to bring it back to life. A story of style

The name Geminiano Cozzi has strong ties with a precise idea of style and beauty, combined with entrepreneurial courage and a genuine passion for research. The narrative begins in the 1700s: born in Modena, a skillful potter, towards the middle of the century Cozzi moved to Venice. At the time the city was the only European state, besides Germany, that produced hard-paste porcelain, which until the early years of the century had been a monopoly of China. A “white gold” that in the courts of the western world was a symbol of luxury and refinement.

La collezione “Striche” per la prima colazione
sulla terrazza dell’Hotel de la Ville a Roma

In 1765 Geminiano Cozzi founded his workshop, located in the Cannaregio district. He immediately defined its style: very refined decorations, rich colors, bold aesthetic research ahead of the times. The workshop closed in 1812, 15 years after the end of the Venetian Republic, and the objects it produced are now conserved in leading museums, or sold at exclusive international auctions. Tonino Tognana, an erudite businessman active in this sector, had decided to write a new chapter for the firm, bringing it into the present but without forgetting its glorious past. Geminiano Cozzi Venezia 1765 celebrates the excellence of the material, producing objects for the table and décor in fine bone porcelain, while opening the way for collaborations with haute hotellerie, premium restaurants and lifestyle brands of reference on a worldwide level, formulating totally customized projects.

Piatto della collezione “El Leon” realizzata per Jesurum Venezia 1870

Il decoro “Feston e Cadena”, scelto dall’hotel 5 stelle Grand Hyatt Kuwait

Progetto custom per il ristorante
Il Platano dell’hotel Villa d’Este
a Cernobbio

Villa Passalacqua, hotel affacciato sul lago di Como, ha scelto la collezione “Venezia 1600”

The catalogue features five collections – Bianco Puro, Tradizionale, Decori Moderni, Tailor Made, Art Collection – sharing in an idea of style capable of crossing over time. Its symbol could be the pattern known as “Striche” (Venetian for ‘stripes’): an essential geometric figure born in the 1700s, and a forerunner of refined neoclassical and modern simplicity.

Today the products bearing the signature of Geminiano Cozzi exist in a world of refinement, know-how, culture and taste. Where the ideas of a brilliant man with a taste for experimentation, who lived over two centuries ago, become the starting point for new explorations. Always seeking beauty and paying homage to a totally Italian art of living.

Firenze, Grand Hotel Lungarno: apparecchiatura per due con il decoro “Intrecci” e vista sul Ponte Vecchio

“Striche” in verde e il “Rinfrescatoio” (glacette) usato come portafrutta a Villa Sola Cabiati, sul Lago di Como

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