Recycled plastic cachepot CIRCO

galvanised steel

The Circo Flower Pot in joyful colours offers a vibrant home to your plants. A design by Sebastian Herkner, the comfortable and lightweight piece captures Colombia's vibrancy and spirit with its intense colour contrast of fine webbing and steel frame. The pot comes in four colour combinations and four different shapes. Each pot is made in Santa Marta, a city on the Caribbean coast of Colombia, by local craftspeople. They weave the PVC strings, which are made from recycled plastic, around a powder coated tubular steel frame. The weaving technique the artesanos and artesanas use is called Momposino, a traditional method known for intricate patterns. Just the preparation of all the materials takes 20 days, while the production of each pot takes two days. 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. A sought-after contemporary designer and recipient of many industry awards, he has worked with many international design brands, creating intriguing pieces that showcase his intuition for interesting material, colour and texture combinations.