Legatoria d’arte Giovanni Codina
The pleasure of creation. The love for the paper object. The art of bookbinding. Masterpieces, unique pieces from the Guinness Book of Records in an artisan laboratory.
Since 1951.
The Legatoria d’Arte Giovanni Codina, founded in 1951 by Giovanni Codina and his wife Anna Lapenna, for over seventy years has been providing the services of very high quality in every shape and period style, elegant and harmonious in the classic decorations, essential and sober in modern linearity. The long experience allows the company to create products on an artistic level and not only in binding the single volume, but also in the conception, planning and execution of series editorials, created by Tiziano, Michelangela and Natale, owners today. The quality is seen in the workmanship of precious leathers and parchments, dry inlays and embossing, engravings ornaments titles, gilding of edges by hand in pure gold, artistic virtuosity, French boite, bookcases, hand-marbled papers, conservation, restorations and repairs, creative design and samples. The craft of the craftsman is difficult, argues Natale, because it is necessary to “know, know how to do and let people know”. As he always loves to repeat to those who enter the laboratory quoting the dedication to his father Giovanni: “the craftsman, first to move hands wisely and creatively head, has already moved the best part of himself, which is the Heart, for the passion he has for his work”.