Welcome to Joseph Cozza Salon and Skin Care. We offer a complete array of hair, nails, makeup, and skin care services performed by our professional staff. Joseph Cozza Salon and Skin Care is located at 77 Maiden Lane, one block from Union Square, and a boutique salon in the Four Seasons Hotel two blocks away. We hope to see you soon at San Francisco’s most exquisite and exceptional salon and skin care spa.
Open Tuesday - Saturday
Joseph Cozza
Joseph Cozza celebrated his 25th year in the business with the opening of his new salon at 77 Maiden Lane -- the largest full-service salon in San Francisco.
One of eight children, Joseph Cozza was raised in upstate New York, and moved to San Francisco in 1981. Cozza began his career in 1985 at the I. Magnin salon, where he met the renowned John diPietro, who immediately recognized Cozza’s exceptional talent. Cozza followed diPietro to his new salon at 77 Maiden Lane, and again when diPietro Todd opened on Post Street. diPietro Todd quickly became San Francisco’s top hair salon, and Cozza was one of its top stylists, requested by the city’s elite as well as by visiting celebrities such as Rudolf Nureyev, Tipper Gore, Laura Bush, Gloria Vanderbilt, and Beverly Sills, to name but a few.
In 1995, Cozza and his partner, Joe Bisazza, started their own salon above Gump’s at 30 Maiden Lane. It was a small, exclusive “jewel box” of a salon, but quickly gained a big reputation, growing within a few years to three times the original size. To build his staff, Cozza sought talent from outside San Francisco, developing an international team of stylists and colorists who had trained at the best schools all over the world. Cozza knew how to nurture new talent, and many of his original employees remain with the salon today.
In addition to San Francisco’s socialites and local celebrities, Cozza’s clients include Queen Noor, Caroline Kennedy, Tina Brown, Kathy Bates, Cybil Shepard, Arianna Huffington and others. In 2001, Joseph Cozza expanded to the new Four Seasons Hotel, opening a boutique salon inside the Sports Club/LA.
Today, in addition to maintaining a roster of clients, Cozza is a sought-after innovator in the industry. In the mid-1990s, his was the first (and only) Northern California salon to carry Kerastase products. Kerastase’s parent, L’Oreal, tapped Cozza to help develop its new luxury high-end line, Shu Uemura Art of Hair, which is now carried in only 500 stores in the U.S., including Joseph Cozza Salon.
