FGL International is inspired by Paolo Uccello's art for his approach

A reconstruction of the triptych 'The Battle of San Romano' guides the conception of the new collection of the company of chemical tanning and the setting up of its temporary show-room at Simac Tanning Tech

Art as heritage and source of inspiration.

The headquarters of FGL International is less than 4 km from the site of the Battle of San Romano depicted by Paolo Uccello on three beautiful plates that are now kept at the Uffizi Museum in Florence, the National Gallery in London and the Louvre Museum in Paris. It is from this masterpiece of Florentine birth that the company was inspired to develop its new collection of leather,
exhibited from 19 to 21 September at the Simac Tanning Tech exhibition at Fiera Milano Rho.

The Battle of San Romano is a triptych painted by Paolo Uccello, a mixed technique on panel, dating from around 1438. The battle is represented in three episodes on as many panels: Niccolò da Tolentino at the head of the Florentines, Disarcionamento Bernardino della Carda, Decisive intervention alongside the Florentines by Michele Attendolo. Paolo Uccello was famous for his daring prospective experiments. In this triptych of tables there are more vanishing points, but the viewer of the work as a whole had been imagined in the center. The arrangement of the works involved a sort of immersion of the observer in the battle itself, a centrality that the FGL International set-up wanted to reconstruct also in a symbolic sense. The temporary show-room of Simac Tanning Tech (Fiera Milano Rho 19-21 September) is in fact conceived according to a "customer centric" logic: the customer at the center. This is an approach to a perfect use of the stand, but also a concept that has always accompanied the company.

"For many years now FGL International has provided its expertise and professionalism to its customers in the tanning industry and now it can do it even more - commented CEO Francesco Lapi -. Since the integration with the activities of Finikem, the company has increased its services and is able to follow the customer at every stage of processing, with chemicals for the wet phase and for finishing. A wide range of solutions that are largely (over 200 products) included on the ZDHC Gateway portal Level 3. Responding as effectively as possible to the customer continues to be our central objective".

"The affinity between FGL and the work of Paolo Uccello can be interpreted in many ways - adds Francesco Lapi -. The relationship to art is not new for the company. For years, the Lapi Group has supported artistic projects, creative contests on the territory involving school children (such as "Respect in color"). The leather collection developed for the Fall-Winter 2024/25 season is itself the result of artistic inspiration. The shades and colors reflect the shades of the panels of the triptych thanks to research work that has been
very interesting".

The link with its Tuscan origins brings FGL International to this great painter of the Florentine art scene of the mid-fifteenth century. The importance of heritage does not limit, but rather strengthens, the international vocation of the company: just as art has no borders and speaks a universal language, the attention to detail and the widespread assistance that FGL offers to its customers are appreciated and spread all over the world. Just like The Battle of San Romano, divided into three distant places, but of the highest value.