Rossi 1931, an historical Florentine firm, is proud to offer prestigious paper and stationery from a vast range of printing techniques to its clients.

Throughout the 90 years of activity, we have refined and perfectioned every instrument and process used to realize our famous and prestigious decorative paper and cards collections.

Even though the world has undoubtedly changed since our founder Cav. Antonio Rossi set up the business back in 1931, our dedication to the excellence and perfection of our printing is still very strong. Whether we use the antique printing techniques or the more modern ones.

As follows we would like to describe all of our unique and unusual printing processes that have characterized the production of our prestigious Italian decorative paper throughout the past three generations.

Powdered Gold Print:

This difficult, semi artisanal technique, consists in setting a small quantity of gold (bronze powder) on specific details on the decorative paper designs.
Making these more precious, particular and unique in their field.

Rossi 1931 is known in the world for having perfectioned this technique and having used it on many of its stationery products.

On Rossi 1931’s prestigious decorative paper, in the Florentine style in particular, golden finishes represent without doubt an added value to the paper, both in terms of fashion and of sophistication. That’s why they’re one of the most loved by the market.

Hot Stamping Foil:

Bright and shiny, the hot gold stamping foil can give an extra touch of refinement to stationery.
Whether it is used by itself or in combination with any other printing process, hot stamping gives the design a special glow.

As a technique, it’s based on the combination of heat and pressure. Gold is the most common color, but many others can be used with this printing technique. Examples include: silver, copper, pearl etc…

The classic ‘metallic shine’, if properly used, can give stationery collections a very special touch. Rossi 1931 uses this technique for the realization of the ‘Holiday’ collection, both for cards and for decorative paper.

Relief Printing:

Printing machines can create beautiful and peculiar details on stationery, without the use of ink.
Both ‘blind embossing’ and ‘blind debossing’ techniques are done without the use of ink, pressure is applied onto the surface of the paper to imprint designs or texts.

The ‘blind embossing’ technique creates a design in relief, just like Braille. On the other hand, the ‘blind debossing’ technique creates depressed designs, just like footprints on the sand.

Both techniques, alone or combined with other printing processes, can give more depth and visual appeal to stationery.

Relief printing is used by Rossi 1931 in many of its products, thus giving them a discrete elegance and a very sophisticated look.

Also in this case, high quality raw paper has to be utilized so as to have the best final result. As such, Rossi 1931’s prestigious stationery is made using soft and beautiful cotton paper.

Typographic Printing:

Marvelously tactile and exquisitely a bit retro, stationery printed using this antique technique has to be appreciated and loved. Developed in the fourteenth century, typographic printing is an antique printing technique that requires several years to put to perfection.

Antonio Rossi started learning the art of typographic printing at a very young age when he used to work as an apprentice in a very small local typography.

Colors appear intense and rich in tone, with a very luxurious opaque finish. The printing process requires a lot of time and hand labor.

Prints are realized one at a time, each having a different variation of ink covering and imprinted depth.

Typographic Printing requires, even in this case, a raw paper of a very high quality and generally heavier so that the process doesn’t tare or thin it.

Rossi 1931’s prestigious paper have a high percentage of cotton, thus being ideal for this technique, as its fibers are soft and they facilitate the clichè and the dense ink’s imprint.

Typographic printing is for Rossi 1931 the perfect option to create precious decorative paper and cards with more extravagant designs rich in color.

Additionally to the peculiar printing techniques used, Rossi 1931 characterizes itself by the quality of the raw materials alongside their unique and inimitable designs.

Only top quality paper

Rossi 1931’s prestigious stationery products are realized using only raw paper of the highest quality, so as to guarantee the best printing results, like its soft and refined cotton papers 100% made in Italy.
Rossi 1931’s decorative paper is available in two sizes: 20x28 inches and 28x40 inches.

Unmistakable Design:

The most extraordinary and precious Italian collection. There are more than 350 different designs including: Decorative Paper, multi use ‘Varese’ Paper and Domino Paper, all ready to be shipped to you!

This vast and varied collection is exclusively produced at the Rossi factory in Florence’s countryside. Designs are mainly inspired by traditional Florentine renaissance decors, but the collection also includes some more modern and innovative designs.

In addition to the standard gift wrapping use, Rossi 1931’s paper is perfect for many other projects, including: stationery and binding, creative and artistic hobbies, scrapbooking, origami, DIY, decorations and découpage.

Some ideas on how to use Rossi 1931’s multi use decorative paper:

Rossi’s paper is therefore perfect to wrap gifts in a magnificent and original manner, but it can have many other uses.
Let’s discover some of these!

Rossi 1931’s prestigious paper can be used to bind or line notebooks, diaries and books. By choosing the designs that you’re attracted to the most (between the over 350 designs) one can give a new life to ugly or old covers. In the case of book lining, pay great attention to the sizes of the book. Always leave one centimeter of paper in excess on the edges, so that you can fold this inside the book’s cover and fix it with some vinyl glue. If you want to do a painstaking job, just like a real binding artisan, you can apply a strip of fabric (possibly the same color of the design) along the spine of the book.

If you don’t know what to do with empty shoe boxes, by using for example the Florentine classic Rossi paper, you can line these boxes to create practical and beautiful box containers. With a bit of creativity, you can stack boxes to create useful structures such as desk shelves. In this case, you only need to stack two or three boxes without a lid on and the job is done!

Also furniture and drawers, especially if they’re antique, can be decorated and lined using Rossi 1931’s precious paper. For these projects, the ‘Varese’ multi use papers are suggested. After a thorough cleaning of the wooden surfaces you can attach these using a specific wood glue, or alternatively, you can use a more natural and ecologic option by making a water and flour mixture.

Finally, Rossi 1931’s prestigious decorative paper can be used to line and cover photo albums or frames.

Patrizia Margheri is a versatile artist with great talent and extraordinary technical capabilities. She has been able to communicate these throughout her numerous works, her love for art and the Florentine tradition.

In the first half of the eighties, Patrizia Margheri started an exclusive collaboration with the Rossi 1931 firm.
There are numerous ‘Florentine style’ painting art boards created by Patrizia Margheri throughout her tens of years of activity.

Flowers, fruits, column capitals, cherubs and many other iconic subjects were the protagonists of this style, but they have always been reworked with a modern twist by Patrizia Margheri, thus creating a new, personal and well recognisable artistic expression.

The majority of Patrizia Margheri’s works are published by Rossi 1931 and used to realize a vast collection of prestigious stationery products including: decorative paper, writing paper, different cards and much more.

The golden color, constant and indispensable, prevails and triumphs throughout the illustrations of the artist. Rossi 1931 reproduces this color by applying copper powder on paper with a very challenging printing technique.

The famous ‘gold’ powder, is a very peculiar and nobel technique that highlights the raw materials by giving the Rossi 1931 products distinctive fashion and refinement.

Copyright and Author rights.

To this day, Patrizia Margheri has painted hundreds of illustrations, designs and art boards while working as the Creative Director of the Rossi 1931 business.

All of her works, including some unpublished ones, are rigorously cataloged and conserved in the Rossi 1931 archive and at the SIAE (Italian Society for Authors and Editors) in Rome. All rights reserved.

Customizations.

Following particular client requests, Rossi 1931, makes available his graphics office inside the Rossi factory and offers personalizable prints and packaging.

Furthermore, Rossi 1931 can re-print designs which have been discontinued.