Contemporary dining table CARTAGENAS

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A feast for the eyes serves ames with the new Cartagenas dining table, which joins the collection now. Designed by Sebastian Herkner, the table’s intricate webbing in strong colours matches the existing dining chairs of the series. Its obround tabletop is made from sleek metal or marble, balancing out the vivid colours of the base. This collection is an ode to Cartagena, the lively coastal metropolis on Colombia's Caribbean coast. It has long been an energetic melting-pot, where Colombia’s diverse ethnic communities live side-by-side, creating a city landscape where various cultural backgrounds merge with each other. When walking through its streets and alleyways, new colours, patterns, and perspectives await behind every corner – just like these pieces reveal a new side from every angle. Like the rest of the Cartagenas collection – which includes dining chairs, lounge chairs, and a cocoon chair – the tables' webbing is hand-woven in ames ateliers in Bogota, Colombia’s capital. The skilled craftspeople work with coloured strings made from recycled PVC and tie them artfully around a steel frame. It takes them up to 30 days to complete one table base. Material PVC strings made from recycled plastic. Galvanized and powder coated tubular steel frame. Nero marquinia unito marble. German designer Sebastian Herkner is a long-term collaborator of ames and has visited Colombia multiple times to experience the country’s cities, nature and people first hand. He also visited many of the ateliers that ames has partnered with to learn about the unique traditional crafts of Colombia’s regions.