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Veragouth e Xilema è la definizione attuale di un’azienda protagonista in Ticino da quasi un secolo nel settore della falegnameria e carpenteria edile.
10.4.25
Swissnex Window #5: Synthetic Interactions. Swiss Design meets AI and robotics
Exhibition on the occasion of Osaka EXPO 2025, April 10–May 6
10.4.25
GGQ2 Fire Protection Specialist
Marius Pabst is the key point of reference within the company
10.4.25
The hand and its “fingers” will save the world
By Riccardo Blumer
10.4.25
Interview with architect Marco d’Azzo
by Chiara Fanetti
10.4.25
Unternehmenstag Holz Biel 2025
Collaborations for the future
9.4.25
Asia Savino
RAS – Head of Support
6.2.25
Andrea Oleggini
Chief Project Manager for Carpentry and Sales
7.1.25
Edouard Drollinger
Stage at Veragouth e Xilema
19.12.24
Season's Greetings, Full of Stories
17.10.24
Laura Colombo
Real Estate Developer
23.8.24
Resale: doors and windows
Fenestration for every specific requirement
22.8.24
A half-century journey in Veragouth and Xilema
Conversation with Mario Vanini
12.8.24
Paul Liposchi
Optimising production processes to enhance efficiency
12.8.24
Avart Men
The new concept store in the heart of Lugano
5.6.24
Paolo Calzana
Facing complex negotiations between new materials and regulations
20.5.24
Dylan Arena
An apprentice's experience at Veragouth and Xilema
10.5.24
Hawa: inhabit your dream
6,358 m2 park, 1,785 m2 forest, 2 architectures, 15 flats
1.5.24
The New Porsche Center in Pambio Noranco
The Strength of Wood Between Speed and Precision
1.2.24
Internship life
An interview from Jura with our Paul
25.1.24
Prospettiva 1042
Meeting at the factory
1.12.23
Where your talent finds a home
Grow with us, build your future
1.12.23
Hockey Club Ambrì Piotta Stadium
Mario Botta's new project for the territory
29.11.23
27° International Holzbau Forum
Innovation and sustainability, our journey
29.11.23
Pazola at Andermatt
The elegant new building in the heart of the Alps
12.10.23
Girondella, between contemporaneity and memory
Video interview with architect Mario Cucinella
12.10.23
School gyms in Gordola and Bellinzona
Large wooden exoskeletons as a paradigm of flexibility
11.7.23
Apprenticeship target
Consolidate a community with the power of ideas
11.7.23
Tomorrow's climate
The project "Guidelines for Building South of the Alps"
11.7.23
For an ecosystem of doing together
Discover the new Inedit platform
5.5.23
A new exclusive finish
Milan Design Week 2023
11.4.23
Veragouth and Xilema for Studiopepe: Omphalos, Campo Base
Milan Design Week 2023
20.12.22
The beech
A solid guardian
8.9.22
How our technical department works
From drawing to quality finished work. In between, the knowledge of those with direct experience of wood.
23.3.22
Avart boutique
The new multi-brand shopping experience by Studiopepe
23.3.22
Reka. Swiss Travel Fund Cooperative
Innovation and comfort in your next holiday
23.3.22
Prefabricated modular bathrooms
The challenge for an optimal and certified solution
23.3.22
Lugano municipal master plan
An installation for the future of our city
30.9.21
Team Veragouth and Xilema
25 professionals including engineers, architects, designers and draughtsman, 4 sector directors and over 70 specialised workers
23.3.22
The Walnut
Or the tree of Jupiter
25.6.21
Our partners
For a 360° high-quality service
14.2.21
Veragouth and Xilema adopts Minergie
The top choice in terms of environmental sustainability
13.2.21
Oak
The main wood in carpentry
9.2.21
Simone Cavadini
Still life for Veragouth and Xilema
8.2.21
A pavilion in green surroundings
Casa al boschetto
6.2.21
Custom-made joinery
Quality recognized at first glance
2.2.21
Inserts custom-made and the warm oak wood colour
Casa alle vigne
15.1.21
Veragouth and Xilema, industrial partners in research projects
Responsibility for the future
25.10.20
New agronomic research station
Agroscope
20.10.20
Large coplanar windows, the choice of Swiss technology
Casa agli Orti
10.4.25
The hand and its “fingers” will save the world
By Riccardo Blumer
What’s the difference between a carpenter and an Egyptian scribe from 5,000 years ago?
I believe carpenters were more advanced. Some tools found in their “travel archives” (i.e., their tombs) were already very similar to ours, both functionally and aesthetically, apart from a few metal alloys that were not yet fully developed at the time. The saw, the chisel, the awl, the hammer—the full set of tools for working wood—already existed.
Scribes, on the other hand—aside from the alphabetic writing system, which hadn’t been invented yet and whose impact is comparable perhaps only to the invention of spoken language—had to deal with extremely long rolls of paper made from the papyrus plant, unrolling in just one direction: always forward. To go back, correct, add, or modify something was nearly as difficult as rewriting the entire scroll.
The same applied to reading. Scrolling through a papyrus roll was evidently very slow, and trying to rewind or leaf through it in both directions, even skipping parts as we do with books, was impossible. In fact, we’re looking at an invention which—like all the greatest in history—imposes a cultural shift, a radically different relationship with how each of us constructs our understanding of the world. That’s why a book, as a machine or a tool not just for transmitting knowledge but for producing it, has a massive impact—thanks to its portability, its protection through covers, its binding techniques, and the way its pages are composed or recomposed in sequence, in an alternating and numbered system that might only be comparable to great theatrical or musical scripts. Its impact is immense.
Now, the question is: can we compare an invention of such magnitude to that of the cutting saw? It’s hard to imagine that the saw was invented by imitating the only cutting tool our body has—our teeth. But teeth don’t cut—they tear. This movement of material removal through alternating smoothing in two directions isn’t even comparable to a flint point. Perhaps the saw’s origin lies in the invention of the blade.
As with the book versus the papyrus, between a continuous-edge blade and one with alternating teeth, an entire world has changed. And it’s useless to argue that a book holds more value than a wood saw.
The transformation—or creation—of the world is now more “embodied” than ever, especially today, in the era of extreme digitalization. Cutting wood, like making a book, is a project inseparable from our physical condition as a “body.” There is no writing without a hand to hold the pen; there is no wooden furniture without a toothed blade to shape its parts.
Both of these actions—and the mind that directs them—are part of a single system: the body. And if the body doesn’t work in unity, it breaks. That is why we say the hand—and its “fingers”—will save the world.
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Photo: Simone Cavadini