Doorstep at Harry’s Bar in Venice
To serve is first to love.
ARRIGO CIPRIANI
Grand Canal, Venice
VISION
To be the best hospitality company in the world.
MISSION
Inspired by our Italian heritage and traditions, our hospitality is, and always will be, an expression of love.
Authenticity Simplicity Elegance OUR PILLARS
Culture
OUR PILLARS
CULTURE
Art, history, and literature inspire everything we create.
Paul Newman at the Vittore Carpaccio exhibit in Venice
Duke and Duchess of Windsor
Queen Elizabeth
Giuseppe Cipriani Sr. and Ernest Hemingway
Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall
Truman Capote at Harry’s Bar
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton
AUTHENTICITY
Our smile reflects what’s inside.
We don’t just look, we see.
Ernest Hemingway, Giuseppe Cipriani, and barman Ruggero Caumo at Harry’s Bar, Venice, Italy.
SIMPLICITY
In simplicity there is freedom.
Our service creates no impositions.
ELEGANCE
We complement the essence of our guests with the finest ingredients, materials and service.
Casa Cipriani Milano, Signature Suite
To serve is first to love
VISION
To be the best hospitality company in the world.
MISSION
Inspired by our Italian heritage and traditions, our hospitality is, and always will be, an expression of love.
OUR PILLARS
Culture
Art, history, and literature inspire everything we create.
Authenticity
Our smile reflects what’s inside. We don’t just look, we see.
Simplicity
In simplicity there is freedom. Our service creates no impositions.
Elegance
We complement the essence of our guests with the finest ingredients, materials and service. By being cultured, we are authentic. By being authentic, we know how to see. By seeing, we know how to serve. In our simplicity, there are no impositions. Without impositions, the human being is free to fill every room.
Vittore Carpaccio, Presentation of the Virgin, 1502/1504, oil on canvas, at Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan
CARPACCIO
“Countess Amalia Nani Mocenigo had been told by her doctor to maintain a very strict diet. She was not allowed to eat cooked meat and so, to please her, I thought of thinly slicing a fillet. The meat, by itself, was a bit bland; but there was a very simple sauce I called ‘universal’, because of its adaptability to meat and fish, of which I put a splash, on the meat. To honour the painter whom there was a lot of talk of in Venice that year, due to the exhibition, and also because the colour of the dish, which recalled the shade of the artist’s red, I called it ‘Carpaccio’. Inventions always come by chance.”
-Giuseppe Cipriani Sr.
Madonna of Red Angels, Giovanni Bellini, 1480-1490. oil on pan, at Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan el
BELLINI
In creating what was to become known as the Bellini cocktail in 1948, Giuseppe Cipriani was once again inspired by a painter, the fifteenth century Venetian artist Giovanni Bellini. Sweet, white peaches were in abundance throughout Italy from June through September, and he experimented by pureeing them and adding some Prosecco. Those who tested this new concoction gave it rave reviews. He named the bright and sweet cocktail Bellini and from that day on, the drink became part of Harry’s Bar culture and that of all Cipriani restaurants around the world.
You must read trying to understand. You must absorb the diversity of our towns, our regions and the people who live there.
-ARRIGO CIPRIANI
Suggested reading from Arrigo Cipriani
ITALIAN AUTHORS
Italo Svevo (1861-1928): Zeno’s Conscience
Leonardo Sciascia (1921-1989): To Each His Own, The Day of the Owl, Christ Stopped at Eboli
Italo Calvino (1923-1985): The Baron in the Trees, The Nonexistent Knight
Tommasi di Lampedusa (1896-1957): The Leopard
Primo Levi (1919-1987): If This Is a Man
Elsa Morante (1912-1985): History: A Novel
Giorgio Bassani (1916-2000): The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Goffredo Parise (1929-1986): The Beautiful Priest
RUSSIAN WRITERS
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904): The Stories
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881): Crime and Punishment, The Demons
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910): The Death of Ivan Ilyich, War and Peace, Anna Karenina
GERMAN WRITERS
Erich Maria Remarque (1898-1970): All Quiet on the Western Front, The Black Obelisk, The Last Spark
FRENCH WRITERS
Victor Hugo (1802-1885): Les Misérables
Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870): The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo
Emile Zola (1840-1902): J’accuse
Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880): Madame Bovary
AMERICAN WRITERS
Herman Melville (1819-1891): Moby-Dick
John Steinbeck (1902-1968): Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath
William Faulkner (1897-1962): The Sound and the Fury
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940): The Great Gatsby, Tender Is the Night
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961): A Farewell to Arms, The Old Man and the Sea, The Complete Short Stories, The Sun Also Rises, Across the River and Into the Trees
Truman Capote (1924-1984): In Cold Blood, Other Voices, Other Rooms, Breakfast at Tiffany’s
J.D. Salinger (1919-2010): The Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zooey, Nine Stories, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters
Raymond Carver (1938-1988): Cathedral, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, Where I’m Calling From, Short Cuts
Jack Kerouac (1922-1969): On the Road
Philip Roth (1933-2018): Portnoy’s Complaint, American Pastoral
Saul Bellow (1915-2005): Henderson the Rain King
Woody Allen (1935-): Side Effects, Without Feathers, Getting Even
ENGLISH WRITERS
William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Othello, Hamlet
Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927): Three Men in a Boat
(To Say Nothing of the Dog)
P.G. Wodehouse (1881-1975): A Jeeves Book of Your Choice
Charles Dickens (1812-1870): Oliver Twist, David Copperfield
Alan Bennett (1934-): The Clothes They Stood Up In, The Uncommon Reader, The Lady in the Van, Talking Heads
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894, Scottish): Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
SOUTH AMERICAN WRITERS
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927-2014, Colombia): One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera
Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986, Argentina): Ficciones, The Aleph
Isabel Allende (1942-, Peru): Eva Luna, City of the Beasts, The House of the Spirits
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