14.07.2026
Champagne under the stars
Celebrate Bastille Day with a champagne tasting at Sessius1622.
For July 14th, we invite you to experience an unforgettable evening in the enchanting setting of this 17th-century residence and its charming garden. For the evening, all guests will be seated together around one large celebratory table, embracing the warm, festive spirit of this special date.
Alain Coudurier, passionate œnologue and owner of Caveau de Cessy, will guide you through a refined selection of champagnes, generously sharing his expertise and deep knowledge of these great wines. Each cuvée will be elevated by pairings specially crafted by Chef Thierry Perrault, creating food and champagne pairings as subtle as they are elegant.
Whether you’re a seasoned connoisseur or simply looking for an original and convivial way to celebrate July 14th, this evening promises a true journey into the heart of French art de vivre — shared around one table, as one celebrates among friends.
We look forward to sharing this moment of gastronomy and conviviality with you.
Date: July 14th, from 7:30 PM until the fireworks
Location: Sessius1622, 573 Rue de la Mairie, Cessy
Reservation required: info@sessius1622.com / +33 6 85 72 06 44
Our past events
16.04 – 26.04.2026
Kamasutra by Ionna Vautrin
We are proud to host an exhibition of illustrations by Ionna Vautrin, a French designer whose creations combine softness and precision of lines for public and private spaces. Ioanna explores drawing as a space of freedom. Under the lively strokes of her felt-tip pens, a tribe of frail and expressive bodies comes to life, embracing each other and playing with balance. Acrobats, dancers and tightrope walkers become joyful figures of light eroticism, tinged with humour and poetry.
Published by Flammarion in 2017, this selection of drawings are on display at Sessius 1622. The 100 illustrated aphorisms in this Kamasutra celebrate, playfully, the infinite variations of love.
Find out more about Ionna Vautrin and her studio
5.12 – 14.12.2025
The Sacred Dimension of Chocolate
We are proud to host an exhibition developed by the Weiss chocolate factory in partnership with students from the Master’s program in Object Design at the Saint-Étienne Higher School of Art and Design. They approached chocolate as a precious resource to be preserved and reimagined in response to the scarcity of cocoa. Their projects highlight a meaningful, ethically engaged chocolate infused with sacred, mythical, and ritual elements while rethinking traditional uses. The designs also emphasize local heritage and craftsmanship, celebrating Weiss as a living heritage company and drawing inspiration from Saint-Étienne’s traditional tools and the raw materials of chocolate, such as cocoa beans and pods. The exhibition was conceived for the 2025 Saint-Étienne International Design Biennale.
5.12 – 7.12.2025
Holiday Gourmet
Market
Our traditional festive market returns, featuring panettoni crafted by leading Italian chefs alongside a curated selection of artisanal products from small, quality-driven producers.
A joyful gathering for epicureans, celebrating taste, tradition, and sustainability.
14.03-16.03.2025
Exhibition: Peace, White on White
This group exhibition explores peace in all its forms: inner, spiritual and universal. The exhibition brings together artists from Pays de Gex, Geneva, Neuchâtel, Zug and Zurich, offering a diversity of perspectives on the theme of peace. Through sculpture, photography and painting, they explore the many facets of tranquillity and renewal, creating an immersive space where viewers are invited to feel, meditate and let themselves be carried away by the purity of white.
14.11-17.11.2024
Luis Marques solo exhibition
For our Artists’ Pop-up Studio, we’re thrilled to host Luis Marques, a Portuguese-born artist based in Geneva. His work explores a deep passion for drawing, enriched by his background in architecture. In his series of drawings, titled The Silver Planets, Marques set himself the challenge of creating a continuous line of graphics, almost like a meditation. Each line, shaped by a previous thought, influences the next. This practice becomes a ritual of managing fullness and emptiness, controlling the pace and focus of each gesture.
26.03-27.03.2022
Camélias en Fête
The Festival of Camellias presents a special selection of camellias, rhododendrons and azaleas from a specialized nursery in Tuscany. All plants come from a small nursery managed by Mr Andrea Antongiovanni, appointed by the government of Tuscany as official custodian of historical cultivars of camellias from the region. Andrea has been working exclusively with camellias, rhododendrons and azaleas for the past 25 years in S.Ginese di Compito, in the Lucca area. His selection includes historical camellias from Lucchesia together with new cultivars created by himself and he will be happy to share his experience and advice.
In the Kitchen with Montalbano: A Sicilian Story
12.12 Reading | Società Dante Alighieri, Rue du Perron 16, 1204 Genève
Join Mara Marino for a special evening dedicated to award winning author Andrea Camilleri. Learn about Camilleri’s and his fiction character Montalbano’s food preferences, recipes and eating habits.
Time: 18.30
Free admission
More information: https://dantealighierigeneve.ch/
14.12 Cooking Class | Sessius1622
Enter the fragrant, sunlit world of Andrea Camilleri’s Sicily, where every meal tells a story and every recipe carries a memory. In this special cooking class, Chef Marisa Bentivegna invites you to step into the pages of Commissario Montalbano’s adventures and discover the dishes that so often tempted the famous inspector away from his cases. Together, you’ll prepare a full menu of traditional Sicilian recipes — simple, generous, and full of character — inspired by the beloved foods described in Camilleri’s novels. At the end of the class, participants will gather around the table to share the meal they’ve created — as friends, as cooks, as fellow travellers through Camilleri’s Sicily.
Time: 10:30 – 15:00 hrs
Price: €140 per person
Participation limited to 6 people and includes lunch
