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It was usual by the end of XIX century wealthier families, usued to cover the chestnut wood floors and also the walls of the rooms they treasured, with fine leathers cut into shapes, precisely retained with tannin coming from the wood of the same tree… Some master tanners, craftsmen of the region, knew how to handle the few hides available, with absolute patience and care, applying the secret recipes they ad worked out, in order to provide the leather resistance and coloring which the inhabitants of those days most appreciated.
Vincenzo Espósito was one of them, a handsome young man much prized by daughters from families in Solofra in marring age, devoted himself to an activity relating to the tannery industry – the assembly and setting up of these sheep-leather floors. In 1905 Vicenzo arrived in Argentina for the first time, together with his Giuseppina, who was also a tanner’s daughter from the same town, he decided to decorate his humble house in Avellaneda, in the same way he had learned in Solofra. He realized that here in his note motherland, leather was plentiful, and that from some sheep-leather varieties not well known in Italy, he could obtain similar results to the ones he had obtained in his faraway land, although chestnut trees were not as plentiful as they were in the woods of his beloved Italy.
His children acquired this centennial skill from him, and they kept it carefully watchfully preserved, as the treasure of Espósito`s family practice. Recently, almost a century after Vincenzo`s arrival took place, a member of Esposito`s family considered dusting off and developing these ancient recipes for the tanning of leather suitable for covering floor surfaces which had had remained undistributed for so long, amending them for cattle leather, with processes and technology currently available in tannery so as to supply modern day’s needs and create a totally new and useful product – leather floors.
A team (made up by technicians, engineers, designer and others) was summoned, and they set themselves to work, according to precise instructions.
The instructions were created a useful product, easily installed, adjustable to designer requirements and above all to leather and its nobility.
This is the origin of PAMPA TILES, the leading exporting company of cattle-leather finished whole-hide leather in Argentina, Antonio Espósito S.A., which is also one the main exporters of manufactured leather products, under ISO 9000 standards.
PAMPA TILES, a legacy preserved by generations.
It was usual by the end of XIX century wealthier families, usued to cover the chestnut wood floors and also the walls of the rooms they treasured, with fine leathers cut into shapes, precisely retained with tannin coming from the wood of the same tree… Some master tanners, craftsmen of the region, knew how to handle the few hides available, with absolute patience and care, applying the secret recipes they ad worked out, in order to provide the leather resistance and coloring which the inhabitants of those days most appreciated.
Vincenzo Espósito was one of them, a handsome young man much prized by daughters from families in Solofra in marring age, devoted himself to an activity relating to the tannery industry – the assembly and setting up of these sheep-leather floors. In 1905 Vicenzo arrived in Argentina for the first time, together with his Giuseppina, who was also a tanner’s daughter from the same town, he decided to decorate his humble house in Avellaneda, in the same way he had learned in Solofra. He realized that here in his note motherland, leather was plentiful, and that from some sheep-leather varieties not well known in Italy, he could obtain similar results to the ones he had obtained in his faraway land, although chestnut trees were not as plentiful as they were in the woods of his beloved Italy.
His children acquired this centennial skill from him, and they kept it carefully watchfully preserved, as the treasure of Espósito`s family practice. Recently, almost a century after Vincenzo`s arrival took place, a member of Esposito`s family considered dusting off and developing these ancient recipes for the tanning of leather suitable for covering floor surfaces which had had remained undistributed for so long, amending them for cattle leather, with processes and technology currently available in tannery so as to supply modern day’s needs and create a totally new and useful product – leather floors.
A team (made up by technicians, engineers, designer and others) was summoned, and they set themselves to work, according to precise instructions.
The instructions were created a useful product, easily installed, adjustable to designer requirements and above all to leather and its nobility.
This is the origin of PAMPA TILES, the leading exporting company of cattle-leather finished whole-hide leather in Argentina, Antonio Espósito S.A., which is also one the main exporters of manufactured leather products, under ISO 9000 standards.
PAMPA TILES, a legacy preserved by generations.