NEW YORK – Cosulich Interiors is closing its Manhattan showroom and transitioning to an online-only model as it returns to Europe to work directly from there, the company announced in an email this week.
The company, which was established in Italy in 1982 and has been in the United States for 40 years, operates a showroom in the New York Design Center at 200 Lexington Avenue, where it offers 20th century Italian art pieces and exclusive Venetian Murano glass pieces, as well as lighting in many forms: lamps, pendants and chandeliers. The company also has a base in Italy, where it fulfills requests for European projects on-site.
The company opted not to renew its lease at 200 Lex, which expires in January, Managing Director Fabienne Cosulich told Home Accents Today. “Another five years would be too long for us,” she said. “Secondly, we import everything from Italy, and it would be easier to follow production and logistics from over there.”
Its 2,000 square-foot showroom at the New York Design Center, which opened in 2017, offers a customizable assortment of Murano glass lighting as well as furniture, mirrors and decorative objects. “We felt it was our mission to sustain Italian craftsmanship,” Cosulich said. Cosulich Interiors also sells antiques and vintage pieces.
The company was founded by Franco Cosulich, who as a child lived in Italy, Ethiopia, Brazil and Argentina. He opened an antiques store in Arezzo, Italy, and exhibited throughout the U.K. before opening an Italian design gallery in Chicago in 2003. It arrived in New York in 2006 with a store on East 60th Street that later shuttered during COVID.
Fabienne Cosulich serves as managing director for the company and her daughter, Sara Bonacina, serves as director of sales.
The company is currently holding a 45% off sale on everything in the showroom. “It’s the first-ever sale in more than 40 years,” Cosulich said. “We’ve been very successful and never had the need for a sale. .. We hope to sell everything before we move back to Italy.”
The sale will run until the end of the year and it will continue to add products to its website.
It will also hold an Open House during What’s New, What’s Next 2025, which will be held at the New York Design Center next week.
