Colour, iconic decors, Italian style
Accademia, Ducale, Vignole, Cocò.
The new fabrics express Italian style and elegance.
A tribute to great fashion designers and to the peculiarities of our land.
Venice, art city and cultural melting pot, recounts the new Italia Lounge fabric collection. As the world’s home of beauty, Venice has a rich history of artists, international merchants and popular traditions. Each of its buildings preserves an historical memory and promotes the Italian culture of beauty, the heritage of shapes and colours that Venice has given to the world over time.
The architectural complex of Santa Maria della Carità, the current headquarters of the Gallerie dell’Accademia (a museum gallery of pre-19th-century art) and previously headquarter for the Accademia di Belle Arti, has contributed to the diffusion of an international culture, making an artistic heritage of immense value available to the public since its establishment.
The surprising simplicity of a building like the Scuola Vecchia di Santa Maria della Misericordia, which today is home to the laboratories, offices, and archives of the Gallerie dell’Accademia, inspired the choice of the new Accademia fabric, refined and elegant in its simplicity: a heavy double satin in pure cotton with a soft, silky feel.
More characteristic is the The Doge’s Palace (Italian: Palazzo Ducale), a masterpiece of Gothic art. Heart of the political and administrative life of the Republic of Venice, this building can be considered a symbol of the city’s heterogeneity. The sequence of different domination in the city of Venice influenced the different architectural styles of construction of the palace, which was frequently renewed mostly due to extensive damages caused by numerous fires and to a multiplicity of functions that these spaces have assumed over time.
The new Ducale chenille pays homage to this palace, one of the most important symbolic places in the Veneto region. Chosen for its ability to adapt to any environment, it can serve as a focal point to the décor instead of merging with the existing interior style.
Over the centuries, however, Venice has not only been a venue for meetings devoted to culture, politics, and economic exchange. This is demonstrated by the island of Vignole, originally a place of leisure and holiday for the inhabitants of the mainland, then used as a support for the military post on the island of Sant’Andrea and entirely dedicated to farming, as it still is today. An island that reflects its traditional and rural character also in the small bell tower of the chapel of Sant’Eurosia, whose architectural simplicity makes it a unique example in the Venetian lagoon.
The new two-tone structure Vignole is a tribute to rural life: its texture, in fact, recalls that of the fields used for various crops, seen from the top of the bell tower, with their alternating natural colours.
Venice is not just a city: it is a serene harbour, a magical place of inspiration and dialogue that attracts and has attracted over the centuries many of the world’s most illustrious, renowned, and influential people. Among them was Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel, who found solace there after the loss of her beloved Boy Capel. Already a famous designer at that time, she accompanied her non-conformist clothes with bags and jewellery. His stays in the lagoon played an important role in the design of these accessories. The opulence of the domes, gold, mosaics, and cabochon in St. Mark’s Basilica influenced his aesthetic sense in the creation of jewellery, which constantly took on a Byzantine charm.
Cocò is the new houndstooth decorative fabric by Italia Lounge that celebrates the undisputed style of a fashion icon, suitable to characterise and make sumptuous the coolest living rooms, just like those that Cocò Chanel attended during her stays in Venice.