Lorenzo Erbetta is a young designer who graduated from Istituto Secoli in 2025
Borgomanero, Italy, 2003
@lolloerb_ | @virtumaison
Designer to Watch with the “Qualcos’altro” collection
The collection is inspired by the idea that form is “Something Else” compared to simple matter: it does not coincide with the thing itself, but communicates beyond what it contains. It cannot be reduced to the material that constitutes it, because it expresses a surplus of meaning capable of surpassing and transforming the object. Within the block of marble, the form is not created, but revealed: it is already present, hidden within the matter. The artist does not add, but subtracts, eliminating the superfluous to make visible what was invisible. The block thus becomes the site of a tension between what emerges and what remains concealed, between matter and latent form.
