Allow Me to Introduce Tat London's First Collection

25th April 2025

Charlie Porter, Photographed With The First Tat Collection, Photographed By Jasper Fry

For eight years, Tat has celebrated the artistry of others—championing their imagination, their craftsmanship, and the enduring beauty of objects that thumb their nose at passing trends. It’s not the quickest route to riches. Not even close, but it is, I think, an honourable and delightful way to make a living. To find beauty in the overlooked, to recognise the skill of those who came before us, and to give the discarded a second act, it has and does bring me great joy.

What I’ve come to realise is that the best designs have heart. They were made with necessity and ingenuity, and showed their connection to their maker through the mistakes and oddities that modern production would smooth out in a heartbeat. The earliest things I sold—flawed, occasionally unhinged—had soul. Some might call them gauche. But they weren’t pretending, they stood proud in their gaudy human made form.

For years I hesitated to put the Tat name to something new. The idea loitered. I flirted with it, and then would shy away. Then, as these things go, a late night conversation in Milan nudged it from daydream into reality. A partnership was struck and a plan took shape.

From the outset, one thing was certain: the pieces had to be made in the UK. My admiration isn’t for those who drain industry dry, but for those who put something back—who invest in the skills and communities that keep it alive. We’re lucky here; there’s real talent under our noses. It would have been lunacy not to use it. Tat may not yet be the Medici of manufacturing, but one must start somewhere.

We chose pewter, a material I’ve always had a soft spot for. Plenty of it has passed through Tat’s hands, and its appeal has never worn thin. Pewter changes with age—it softens, darkens, deepens. It records a life lived. The designs are pulled from here and there—mostly European—and brought to life in the Midlands with a combination of machine and hand.

Tat has always been about honouring what lasts. And now, finally, we’ve made something of our own which we pray might pique your interest.

These products will be released on the 30th April 2025, as good a date as any.

Sconce o1, Bookends o1, Candlestick o1 - Photographed by Jasper Fry

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