The poetry of imperfection
Imperfettolab is both a laboratory and a 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 person takes part in a continuous creative process, nourished by everyday gestures.
The Imperfettolab collection exists outside of time and fashion: a dateless sequence, suspended between an archaic past and an open-ended future. Its formal alphabet is rooted in nature and in primary, essential, and ancestral forms, reinterpreted through a contemporary lens—bearers of memory, yet also charged with a tension toward what is still to come.
From this vision emerge furnishings and objects that do not seek an accommodating beauty or love at first sight. Instead, they choose to question, provoke, and invite reflection. They enter memory as presences, rather than as mere decorative elements.
The character of the works is uncompromising and free of hypocrisy, faithful to a stubborn ethic of black or white, punctuated by rare metallic accents. Curvilinear and sinuous lines, often out of scale, generate immediate emotional responses.
The works play with contrasts: plastic material reimagi-nes nature in a dreamlike guise; solid geometries dare ba-lances that are only seemingly impossible; scale, even when pushed to extremes, becomes an illusion and gives rise to an unexpected sense of lightness, as if objects that appear to weigh tons could move through space with delicacy.
There is also a capacity to desacralize the classical: ancient forms are dismantled and reinvented, allowing an ancestral heritage to resurface in contemporary, functional, and innovative pieces, equally at home in a villa or a loft, a museum, a Renaissance palace, or a glass penthouse overlooking the rooftops of Manhattan.
Within this poetic vision, beauty reveals itself through imperfections—not as flaws, but as traces of the finest craftsman-ship impressed upon the material. A tactile quality that evokes living matter, shaped and enriched by time, here refined to the point of becoming absolute luxury.
Born from the more-than-twenty-year symbiosis between Verter Turroni and Emanuela Ravelli, Imperfettolab narrates the eternal struggle between natura and technè, between the natural and the artificial. It does not matter which prevails: it is the tension between these two poles that generates works destined to endure, immune to fleeting fashions and capable of crossing decades without losing their singular beauty.
This ongoing research now finds a new chapter in VESTIGIA, the latest collection designed by Verter Turroni for Imperfettolab. A project rooted in continuity with recent creations, which are desacralized and reworked, sometimes lightened, sometimes stripped of detail, to give shape to new visions.
Inspired by imaginary relics of the past, Vestigia contaminates history with a light, modern material. The works remain contemporary yet distant from technology and its simplifications: expressions of artisanal labor and inexhaustible ideas, increasingly opposed to the automation that homogenizes everything.
The material retains an archaic, rough, and imperfect character, yet allows itself to be shaped into mutable and unexpected forms. From this emerges an unmistakable, sculptural design, at once wild and metaphysical: objects that seem to come from a remote time and that, precisely for this reason, appear more relevant than ever.