Pio and Tito Toso are brothers, born in Venice in 1973 and 1971, who graduated in architecture in Venice in 1998; their studio dates from 1996. Their practice is primarily architectural, at national and international scale, and extends to exhibitions, retail spaces, offices, visual identity and the design of furniture and lighting. They take part regularly in design competitions and have exhibited in Europe and the United States, receiving distinctions including the Red Dot Design Award and the Good Design Award. For Varaschin they designed PLINTO, which began as a series of table bases and has grown into a broader outdoor family. Its form draws on a tree trunk and its roots, a model of stability: an extruded aluminium stem rises from a die-cast aluminium base, both powder coated, supporting dining tables, low tables and coffee tables of different sizes.
