OUR HISTORY
There is something unique in our DNA. The obsession with a culture that defends quality and puts experience before objects, design before furnishings.
It’s our compulsive perfection disorder.
To some it may seem like a banal metaphor, or hyperbole to define a mental state. In reality, rhetorical figures have nothing to do with it. We are deeply convinced that perfection is «a path, not a destination». A path that we trace day after day not only by creating quality products, but also by trying to understand the past and look clearly to the future . Every object, every design, every phase of our production is the result of a constant search for perfection. We don’t take anything for granted.
The beauty of the world around us is our muse . Let’s take Luciano, our master dyer, for example, who when looking for inspiration for the colors of the materials gets lost in the pages of a huge volume dedicated to bark. “I use chemicals to dye, but perfect color combinations can only be found in nature.” And this applies to all materials: our philosophy is to intervene as little as possible to understand how they behave and what they can teach us.
But what exactly does a company with a compulsive perfection disorder tend towards? Simple: to sustainability. Arketipo thinks carefully about the sourcing of materials, he identifies with designers who strive not only to enhance the products, but also to make them immortal in every respect . As Giuseppe Viganò states, “ our heritage and our culture guide us towards a new era. Our unique voice derives from this assonance between old and new.”
Taking every single element of the materials and design and entrusting it to the skilled hands of our craftsmen is the only way to find the squaring of the circle and calm the compulsive disorder of perfection at least for a moment. Because ours is the culture of artisans, of those who know what it means to take care of something beautiful and excellent – and then create it, exactly comme il faut .
Every Arketipo product is a journey . A dive into history and culture , an open look at the future that does not back down in the face of challenges, but faces them with the courage to do things differently, in a better way!
