The poetry of imperfection
Imperfettolab is both workshop and gallery: a living space, shaped by a daily practice that does not separate creation from life. It is, first and foremost, a family, where each member takes part in an ongoing creative process, nourished by everyday gestures. The Imperfettolab collection exists outside of time and trends: an uninterrupted sequence without dates, suspended between an archaic past and an as-yet-unwritten future. Its formal alphabet is born from nature and from primary shapes, essential and ancestral, reinterpreted in a contemporary key and carrying memory, but also a tension toward what is yet to come. From this vision emerge furnishings and objects that do not seek reassuring beauty or instant love at first sight: they prefer to question, provoke, make one reflect. They enter memory as presences, not as mere furnishing elements.
The character of the works is sharp, free of hypocrisy, faithful to a stubborn ethic of black or white, with rare metallic accents. The curved and sinuous lines, often out of scale, generate immediate emotional reactions. The works play with contrasts: plastic material redraws nature in a dreamlike form; solid geometries dare to propose balances that are only seemingly impossible; scale, even when exaggerated, becomes illusion and generates unexpected lightness, as if objects that appear to weigh tons could move through space with delicacy.
There is also the ability to desacralize the classical: ancient forms are broken down and reinvented, and an ancestral heritage resurfaces in contemporary, functional, innovative pieces, capable of inhabiting a villa or a loft, a museum, a Renaissance palace or a glass penthouse above the rooftops of Manhattan. In this poetic vision, beauty is revealed through imperfections: not defects, but traces of the finest craftsmanship on matter. A tactility that evokes living material, that which time consumes and makes more precious, here refined to the point of becoming absolute luxury.
Born from the over twenty-year-long symbiosis between Verter Turroni and Emanuela Ravelli, Imperfettolab tells the eternal struggle between “nature” and “technè”, between the natural and the artificial. It does not matter who wins: it is the tension between the two poles that generates works destined to last, immune to fleeting trends and capable of crossing decades without losing their singular beauty. This continuous research finds today a new stage in VESTIGIA, the latest collection designed by Verter Turroni for Imperfettolab. A work of continuity with recent creations, which are desacralized and reworked, sometimes lightened, sometimes stripped of details, to give form to new visions.
Inspired by imagined relics of the past, Vestigia contaminates their history with a light and modern material. The works remain contemporary yet distant from technology and its simplifications: an expression of artisanal work and inexhaustible ideas, increasingly in opposition to automation that standardizes everything. The material retains an archaic, hard, imperfect appearance, but allows itself to be shaped into mutable and unexpected forms. The result is an unmistakable design, sculptural, both wild and metaphysical: objects that seem to come from a remote time and that, precisely for this reason, appear more current than ever.