If you like lines you’ll love the table/chair ensemble that is Tato’s Diamante and Poli. That’s because these two pieces exhibit such a pronounced affection for bare geometry, such affinity for the pure form minimally embellished, such a reverence for doing more with less… that the clean, lithe lines fairly jump off the screen. The table is a celebration of linearity and negative space. Constructed of stainless steel or coated iron, the scaffold-like base is—in Tato’s description—a simple “upside-down trapezium” that “elevates and supports the table-top as if discreetly exhibiting a precious gem.” The lacquered wood tabletop features an underside that’s “lapidated,” or beveled such that its true thickness is obscured behind the table’s base.

Diamante Table and Poli Chair. Designed by Tato.

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The table is thus many times stronger than it appears, as the beveled surface verily vanishes, which simultaneously heightenins its razor-thin profile. And speaking of razor thin profiles, Tato’s Poli Chairs are a worthy counterpart. The same species of apparently delicate structure (thin polygons of steel) are connected to create the base for… more thin polygons of steel. The difference between the seat and seatback is the lightly padded slate upholstery that graces its polygonal contours, as Poli’s upper half is created by “joining upholstered steel polygons.” The concept creates a light, portable, and ergonomic chair that continues the theme begun in Diamante: all lightness and nice, clean lines.

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About the Manufacturer: Tato is a Brazilian design-build firm featuring the prodigious talents of principals Rodrigo Ferreira and Felipe Zanardi. The former was educated in industrial design at São Paolo’s Universidade Belas Arte, then went on to design for Decameron and Carbono, becoming a 2009 IF Award finalist for Sofa Block. The latter earned his stripes in product design at Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado, also in São Paulo, before collaborating with such luminaries as Fernando and Humberto Campana, Luciana Martins, and Gerson de Oliveira. In 2008, Zanardi’s Carpet-lounge received an Honorable mention by the 2nd. Concurso Artefacto de Design. In spite of these laurels, their best is yet to come as they’ve come together with Tato to create minimalistic and functional pieces with a pronounced connection to Brazilian culture… “to rescue tradition and cultural references and express them in a design that is audacious, cheerful, humored and exclusive, that generates desire and surprises on the details.”