Drawing on bibliographic, archival, and oral sources, this essay explores the history of a company - Fulget, as it came to be known in the post-war period - founded in Bergamo in 1929 by the Capoferri brothers, plasterers and cement layers. The essay aims to identify the products introduced by the company to the construction market and to examine their adoption and success, bolstered by an advertising campaign in architecture magazines, especially Domus, and by relationships cultivated with some of the most prominent Italian designers of the time, including Gio Ponti, Marco Zanuso, Franco Albini, and Franca Helg. The products developed by the Capoferri brothers, which would go on to become widely used both in Italy and abroad, included grit plasters and small prefabricated cladding elements, known as Fulget, various sophisticated floor types, and a “new” material named Silipol, created at the request of Albini and Helg for the prefabricated cladding panels of La Rinascente in Rome (1957-61). In contrast to the persistence of niche productions and workshops in this sector, which continued to operate in a purely artisanal manner for a long time, the success of Fulget appears to lie in its deep roots in traditional craftsmanship and, at the same time, its openness to the modernization and industrialization of the construction sector.

Fulget: «tutti i tipi di marmi, leganti di ogni colore, permettono infinite combinazioni» / Barelli, Maria Luisa - In: Produrre per costruire / Barelli M. L., Volpiano M.. - ELETTRONICO. - Torino : Politecnico di Torino, 2024. - ISBN 979-12-81583-06-1. - pp. 475-494

Fulget: «tutti i tipi di marmi, leganti di ogni colore, permettono infinite combinazioni»

Barelli, Maria Luisa
2024

Abstract

Drawing on bibliographic, archival, and oral sources, this essay explores the history of a company - Fulget, as it came to be known in the post-war period - founded in Bergamo in 1929 by the Capoferri brothers, plasterers and cement layers. The essay aims to identify the products introduced by the company to the construction market and to examine their adoption and success, bolstered by an advertising campaign in architecture magazines, especially Domus, and by relationships cultivated with some of the most prominent Italian designers of the time, including Gio Ponti, Marco Zanuso, Franco Albini, and Franca Helg. The products developed by the Capoferri brothers, which would go on to become widely used both in Italy and abroad, included grit plasters and small prefabricated cladding elements, known as Fulget, various sophisticated floor types, and a “new” material named Silipol, created at the request of Albini and Helg for the prefabricated cladding panels of La Rinascente in Rome (1957-61). In contrast to the persistence of niche productions and workshops in this sector, which continued to operate in a purely artisanal manner for a long time, the success of Fulget appears to lie in its deep roots in traditional craftsmanship and, at the same time, its openness to the modernization and industrialization of the construction sector.
2024
979-12-81583-06-1
Produrre per costruire
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