Three shops, all original. The 1840 pastry-shop, with its painted furniture, is in Caruggio XXV Aprile, Sestri Levante; the 1900 one, with shellac-varnished pitch-pine furniture, a Liberty-style mirror and Art Nouveau Baccarat vases, is in Via Dante. The statues of the Four Seasons in the window were ordered from Paris by grandma Emilia Costa, who designed the shop. The pastry shop in Riva Trigoso, designed by the architect Giulio Rossignotti, grandpa Giacomo’s brother, dates from 1929. Custards and pastries, cannoli and countless torroni and torroncini entranced Roosevelt, Garbo and Marconi. Six generations.