TATO’s motto is “Dreamed and Made in Italy”, because it was conceived to do things well. There’s a deep knowledge arising from the practice. Doing things well, for a company producing lighting design and furnishing items, means to express a way to be and a precise attitude. It means to purposely design a personal idea of what freedom is in an understated way; a personal idea of new, of something you don’t look for, because you live with it every day.
It’s not just about good design: it’s about a more complex vision of the world, of things and of living, it’s about an attitude that brings together a network of knowledge including the hand-made and machine-made and that is related with the more anthropological aspects of craftsmanship and industry.
TATO aims at the rediscovery and preservation of the artisanal skills and the noble taste that are an important part of modern and contemporary Italy.

The main goal of TATO’s products is to be high quality, to last a more than a lifetime so they can be passed on from one generation to the next. We achieve this by relying on the best Italian artisans: marble producers from Carrara and other parts of Tuscany, glass from Venice, and the best metal workers of northern Italy.
Our lighting elements are all retrofittable (upgradable and future-proof to newer industry standards), so technology is welcome but doesn’t get in the way of the design.

We aim to rediscover old projects by great Maestri such as Gio Ponti, Ignazio Gardella and Corrado Corradi Dell’Acqua, and also create new products with a strongly evocative vibe. In this case the main inspiration is the post-war style, born from the need to find furnishing solutions capable of establishing a dialogue with the emerging new structures, especially in a city like Milan, in which all of our designers have deep roots. TATO features a growing collection of lighting items, with finishings that go from all the variations of brass, to chrome, to bronze and other materials able to satisfy our lovely spoiled customers.

More recently, furniture elements and ceramic accessosires were also added to the collection, reintroducing classic works from the past. A highlight is Ignazio Gardella’s “Piedi Regolabili” table, designed in 1951 for Altamira in New York.
Also, TATO’s oldest product to date, the Alzabile floor lamp by Ignazio Gardella (1948), is featured in the permanent collection of New York’s MoMA (Museum of Modern Arts).