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veragouth e xilema
Veragouth e Xilema è la definizione attuale di un’azienda protagonista in Ticino da quasi un secolo nel settore della falegnameria e carpenteria edile.
18.2.26
Daniel Saraceno
CAP – Project Manager Carpentry
7.1.26
Season's greetings, full of projects
A glimpse into the charm of the unfinished
11.12.25
Christian Oliva
ALLEGRA – ALLEGRA manager
4.12.25
Matias Di Giuliano
RPR – Carpentry Production Manager
24.11.25
Giulia Patelli
CAP – Project Manager Joinery
19.11.25
Art, materials and thoughts in dialogue
An evening dedicated to shared beauty
14.11.25
The restoration of Caffè Federale
Architect: Architetti Tibiletti Associati
14.11.25
Valerio Casati
RVE – Carpentry Sales Manager
7.11.25
A wooden artwork at high altitude (2275 m.a.s.l.)
Geometria Alpina by Alex Dorici
23.9.25
Martina Barboni
HRA – Human Resources Administrative Manager
5.9.25
We present Hand in Glove
A new collaborative design project in wood
5.9.25
A new headquarters for the Division of Urban Spaces in Lugano
The expressive power of wood in large-scale public architecture
31.7.25
Hawa: inhabit your dream
6,358 m2 park, 1,785 m2 forest, 2 architectures, 15 flats
25.6.25
Andrea Bevacqua
Project Manager – Carpentry Division
8.6.25
How our technical department works
From drawing to quality finished work. In between, the knowledge of those with direct experience of wood.
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
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
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
25.6.25
Team Veragouth and Xilema
Our team include 114 employees: 32 technical engineers, architects and draftsmen, 4 sector directors, 77 specialized 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
5.9.25
We present Hand in Glove
A new collaborative design project in wood
Hand in Glove is a project by Veragouth e Xilema, developed with the concept and creative direction of the Zurich-based art direction studio Unstated. Conceived as a platform for research and collaboration between designers and artisans, the brand annually invites both national and international designers to engage with wood—a raw material that becomes a ground for experimentation and dialogue. The resulting limited editions merge artisanal expertise, meticulous attention to detail, and a constant drive toward innovation.
The name Hand in Glove—an English expression that evokes a relationship of perfect harmony and complicity—reflects the very essence of the project: a meeting between local tradition and global perspective, between the precision of craftsmanship and the pursuit of contemporary forms. The outcome is a series of refined, thoughtful objects, where the quality of raw materials intertwines with design imagination to give life to collections that are at once cultural testimony and markers of innovation.
Each year, Veragouth e Xilema hosts an artist residency, where the selected designer has the opportunity to develop their project while working side by side with skilled wood technicians and master artisans. It is an experience of dialogue, in which the designer is invited to explore the limits of production and to introduce new visions into the relationship with both artisanal and industrial knowledge.
Hand in Glove presents the first edition
Table and Chair by Ben Kicic
Ben Kicic designed Table and Chair for Hand in Glove. The two pieces originate from an assemblage of carefully selected fragments of wood: boards sourced from different trees, cut, milled, kiln-dried, and precisely joined together.
The jointing technique recalls tradition—the result of years of training and artisanal mastery—while the design belongs firmly to the present, expressed in a contemporary language. Crafted in oak, these objects embody the story of the material from which they were made and the labor that brought them to life: from the growth of the trees, to the hand of the artisan, to the spaces they will eventually inhabit. They are the outcome of gestures, growth, assemblage, and of time itself, reflected on their surfaces.
In October 2024, Ben Kicic spent a week at the Veragouth e Xilema headquarters: a period of exchange and prototyping during which Table and Chair took shape through a process grounded in dialogue between different skills and an unwavering attention to detail.
Hand in Glove at Lake Como Design Festival
14 – 21 September 2025
Contemporary Design Selection at the Chilometro della Conoscenza
Lake Como Design Festival is an annual themed event—an occasion for exhibition, reflection, and research with the aim of fostering dialogue between history, design, architecture, and art.
In a unique setting along the Chilometro della Conoscenza on Lake Como, this year’s edition explores the evocative power of the fragment. Participants present works that reflect on time, identity, material, and personal, social, and environmental scars, revealing how what is broken or marginal can generate new life and new meanings.
Hand in Glove takes part in the Contemporary Design Selection, presenting for the first time the works of New York–based designer Ben Kicic: two furniture pieces that transform wood into a narrative of memory and recomposition, born from the encounter between technique, material, and design vision.
Ben Kicic Biography
Ben Kicic is a New York–based designer with a strong passion for research and innovation.
His work is rooted in the belief that design is an activity founded on simplicity, attention to detail, livability, and practicality. From this approach, he creates furniture and objects that establish a dialogue between functionality, art, culture, and the history of materials.
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Photo: Nicolas Polli, Jenn Roberts
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