Cesa 1882 – Greggio

Le collezioni

Simplicity of the classic and sinuous lines, the harmony of the profiles is enhanced by the scrupulous craftsmanship.

Kallicrate

Elegia

Quirinale

The essence of artisan culture

The elegance that accompanies every gesture.

A prestigious and more than a hundred years old history, crossing as much as three centuries. A biography abounding in success, acknowledgements like no other brand. CESA 1882 has a much wider scope, that of History with capital H, because it has never pursued passing crazes.

Beauty and quality have always been CESA 1882’s great passion, ever since the beginning.
Classical passion, the heritage of Greek and Roman civilizations which have always nourished the cultural and artistic traditions of the Western World.

History

It is in 1882, in Alessandria, that the story of Cesa begins, indeed the story of the silversmith sector’s most influential brand in Italy. An intriguing, three century-long story made of art, beauty, style, good taste, quality, tradition, innovation and success.

A clear head, entrepreneurial skills, creativeness all come together and, in 1898, the renowned Cesa 1882 cutlery production takes shape, outlining some distinctive features of the Company’s silverware production, that is: precious metal, made even more precious thanks to the additional value of art, and to a meticulous attention to details.

It is then in 1920 that, at the end of First World War, when the pleasures of good life and the beautiful things life has in store can be rediscovered, that Cesa 1882 purveys the Royal House of Savoy with a flower-decorated Rouban style service, by which the brand name is further acknowledged its increasing prestige.

The classical spirit and as well the history of art, fully understood and revisited with a very rare, sensible taste.

Still in 1989, a year studded with extraordinary historical events with the fall of Berlin wall on top of all, Mr Mikail Gorbachov is invited
to a dinner held at the Quirinale, during which the table is set with
Cesa 1882’s Rinascimento cutlery pieces. In the same period, Cesa 1882 offers some samples of its precious creations within some very exclusive settings like Grand Hotel Excelsior in Venice, or the Savini Hotel in Milan, without forgoing the chance to step aboard the Orient Express, the legendary train of kings and gorgeous women.

Places where beauty, quality, luxury and joie de vivre are celebrated in perfect tune with Cesa 1882’s spirit. The project for the Italian Embassy in Austria is finally carried out, resulting in the marvellous Elegia collection, which will also be introduced on the Italian market. The collection clearly shows how the essential, masterly execution including chisel and burin engraving successully fits into a more complex industrial process.

SFOGLIA IL CATALOGO

Once upon a time was a castle...

A lead-in like this makes memory and imagination spread the wings, following the fairy suggestions of sleeping beauties and daring knights, of impossible love stories and of duels to the last blow.

A castle is enough to make us fancy gothic and romantic stories. But not only. Let’s take Masino castle for instance, the residence of the Counts of Valperga, heirs of Arduino d’Ivrea the first king of Italy, for ten centuries. Arduino’s mortal remains now rest in this castle, yet their story deserves to
be told.

They were first purloined from the monastery of Fruttaria and scattered all over a deconsecrated ground, later exhumed and transferred to the palace of Duke Filippo di Aglié, a residence subsequently inherited by the House of Savoy.

The story shows just how Masino castle has witnessed some crucial historical events, and as well the different cultural and taste seasons following one another in time, which have been preserved thanks to the jealous care of succeeding generations, with a full respect for traditions.