This artistic collaboration continued with the use of these views to decorate menus, invitations for events, conferences, weddings & celebrations. A large greeting card of the hotel with their logo was used for a variety of events. For correspondence purposes we designed and produce a dedicated envelope and letterhead. As a smaller gift idea, we produced a set of bookmarks of the hotel chain including the Danieli. This project concluded in an exhibition at Magazzini del Sale, Padiglione 5, from 3rd September to 2nd of October 2016, exhibiting and showing the artistic portrait of The Danieli alongside the views of Piazza San Marco personalised together with details of the Sestiere of Castello.
We are still offering and supplying our gift boxes to the Danieli.
Palazzo Dandolo – Danieli
The palace was built at the end of the 13th century in Calle delle Rasse faces the Riva degli Schiavoni. The owners of the palace were the Dandolo, a noble Venetian family which boasted four Doges in the family tree. The building was one of the most opulent and richly decorated in the city, home to a busy social life. In the sixteenth century, the ownership went to the Mocenigo and the Bernardo families. In 1822 Giuseppe Dal Niel, nicknamed “Danieli”, rented the second floor and turned it into a hotel. Just three years later, thanks to the great commercial success he was able to buy the whoel palace and undertook careful restauration with no expense spared.
On ground level there were several shops and boutiques and a contemporary photograph dated 1857, shows it as the “Coffee Brigiacco” In 1895 the Hotel again changed ownership and underwent a new renovation, to introduce all modern services: electricity, steam radiators, elevators and other luxuries. The building next door was added to the hotel and connected to it with a bridge between the first two floors.
On 17 March 1906 the Hotel Danieli was bought by the Italian Grand Hotels Company (ownership of Count Volpi). At that time the shops, houses and a cinema in the ground floor were eliminated. The restructuring was made by the famous architect Francis Marsich. The most recent restructuring was realised between 1946 and 1948.. Of interest is the fact that in the past the main entrance was the one from Calle della Rassa
Staying In Venice
VENICE, always open to all kinds of guests, was a focal point of trade and commerce, a cosmopolitan city and a capital for the traveller who is still to this day greeted with the utmost care. A brief history of accommodation in the Serenissima is not easy – the story begins as far back as the Middle Ages. In the mid 14th century there was an organisation of accommodation providers called the cameranti, they met every Monday in the church of San Matteo di Rialto.
To open a hotel in Venice few formalities were necessary, – just a simple authorisation from the Great Council, a sign which had to be displayed and a fee was payable. Each guest was recorded and equipped with a “certificate ” of residence, without which a guest was liable to be arrested.
In the hotels – in order to avoid hidden forms of prostitution – female staff under 30 years of age could not work and of course, courtesans/prostitutes could not be accommodated. It seems that often the hoteliers in Venice viewed these laws with disdain and offered the “garnished, bed”, which was equipped with everything: dinner, heating, and pleasant company. The Inns would welcome the Masters, also the service personnel and many horses: for this reason, since the sixteenth century almost all Inns were equipped with stables. From the seventeenth century the number of Inns began to increase as especially on the Grand Canal, as many existing palaces were converted into hotels and became extremely profitable. One of the most famous Inns was the Palace dedicated by Leone Bianco, to the Holy Apostles, formerly Palazzo da Mosto, whose sign is clearly visible in a painting by Canaletto, which was home to even Emperor Joseph II in 1769. In 1782 the heirs to Russian throne Paul Petrovich and Maria Teodorova, stayed here in Venice for the Carnival. In the nineteenth century the owner Giuseppe Dal Niel left the old Venetian-Byzantine Palace and moved his business to another building on the Riva degli Schiavoni and founded the renowned “Royal Hotel Danieli”. By the mid nineteenth century new hotel complexes were opening, better equipped to the changing needs of the traveller. The customer had become wealthier and more exclusive, – the inns became hotels or Grand Hotels. In the nineteenth century sea baths were introduced, a new tourist attraction, which brought many new guests. Some hotels put in place new systems for salt and fresh water bathrooms. Venice was now transformed from a “hotel of all nations,” as we defined it initially by quoting a traveller in 1505, to a city hotel, a role that is widening still further year by year. The perennial attraction it exerts on romantics and art enthusiasts created the Venice we know now with a number of magnificent hotels of all kinds. However there is just one hotel that can boast of having hosted Kings and Queens, music, film and art stars, continuing its tradition as one of the most famous hotels in the world, possible the most famous, that is THE DANIELI.
The Exhibition Venue – Magazzini del Sale – Padiglione 5
Built in the early fifteenth century as a warehouse for salt, the only key local product for the Venetian economy, was salt.
The façade is flat with only nine major portals surmounted by as many half-moon windows. Restored in the 1830s by Alvise Pigazzi retaining the original beams. The historic Royal Society “Bucintoro Rowing Club” has its headquarters and museum of the Venetian rowing within its walls. The exhibition space of the Fondazione Emilio Vedova also occupies a part of the Magazzini