Serica Lombarda
SERICA LOMBARDA, SILK FABRIC PRODUCER COMPANY ESTABLISHED IN 1926 BY SERAFINO LONATI, LUIGI BERRA AND Carlo Pozzi.
Company producing silk fabrics, founded in 1926 by Serafino Lonati, Luigi Berra, and Carlo Pozzi. Two years later, they started making fabrics for ties in Cavallasca in the province of Como. In the second half of the 1930s, other shareholders underwrote the company’s capital, among them Marco Canepa, Ambrogio Pessina, and his son Gaetano, who owned the dye-house of the same name. From the end of World War II until 1966, Serica Lombarda was run by Marco Canepa’s sons, Giovanni and Franco. With their father as chairman, Giovanni oversaw the technical and creative side of the business and Franco looked after the administrative side.
IN 1966, GIOVANI CANEPA LEAVES THE COMPANY
In 1966, Giovanni left to set up his own firm Tessitura Serica Giovanni Canepa. Franco, however, stayed with the company until his death in 1968, when it was passed on to other members of the family. It was the heirs who orchestrated the move to Gironico, also in Como, in the early 1990s, and changed the name of the company to Serica Lombarda-Lambrugo.
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