Haldane Martin
Introducing the iconic South African designer Haldane Martin’s premium outdoor brand collection, designed in Cape Town, for urban-chic outdoor-living.
Haldane’s multi-award winning furniture & interior designs are heralded as culturally significant contributions to the South African design language.
“Designing meaningful objects and spaces helps us understand ourselves and creates a sense of belonging to our time and place.” – Haldane Martin
Minimalist round bar and polka dots define Haldane Martin’s iconic Polka collection. This fun, feminine café table collection will drive you dotty! As shown above. Inspired by Cape-Town’s foodie culture and the South African outdoor lifestyle, Polka is the ideal outdoor cafe collection for premium hospitality environments.
Attractive and colourful, the radiant Polka collection brings flair to cafes, restaurants & bars.
Just like our Cape Town girls, these thin, leggy Polka tables would look pretty on a rooftop for cocktails in the Summer sun or charming with a coffee on the sidewalk.
Featuring circular tabletops with perforated steel polka dots, the cleverly spotted table tops allow rain water to pass through the surface while creating stunning swirling optical patterns. Visually skinny but functionally strong, the long-legged Polka tables are manufactured in stainless steel solid rod and coated in UV resistant pure polyester – a match for the African elements – come rain, wind or sunshine!
Quirky with 3-legs and naturally stable on unlevel ground or standard 4-legged options with their adjustable ball feet, the Polka café tables are balanced 2-4 seaters with three diameters (600 mm , 750 mm or 1m). The proudly South African Polka outdoor collection comes in heights to suit a range of settings. Standard café tables at 750mm, 650mm low dining height to fit lounge chair seating - great for laid back tapas style eating and bar tables 1m high for those after work drinks.
In a multitude of delicious colours, Haldane Martin’s Polka café table collection is a sweet treat for the Cape Town culinary circuit.
Haldane Martin’s Cha-Cha tables create the illusion of movement, dancing as the eyes glide around the closely spaced stainless steel rods that form line Moire patterns on the columnated base. The optic effects of the fluted base contrasts with simplistic table tops – slivered disks in monochromatic colours from laser cut stainless steel – to form minimalist Memphis-like plinths.
They’re compelling expressions of intense colour that work as both sleek stand-alone pieces or playfully combined to form customizable compositions. The Cha-Cha table collection comprises of varied heights & diameters and comes in a full spectrum of chi-chi colours or modish electro-plated stainless steel.
The occasional tables’ (above) functional fabrication makes them idyllic statement pieces for the modern interior or outdoors. Made from stainless-steel and coated in UV-resistant pure polyester with a luxurious satin ferro-grain finish, they are a paragon of beauty & versatility. As in the name, the Cha-Cha tables move easily from one form to another - The drinks or snacks table on a metropolitan patio, flamboyant display tables in the art hotel, a centre-piece in the urban monochromatic living-room or functional plinths in the public garden.
Designed with the South African lifestyle in mind, the Cha-Cha occasional tables are suited to outdoor living, handling the African elements & durable in extreme environments.
Location: Ilkley Crescent, Sea Point, Cape Town
Furniture Design & Art Direction: Haldane Martin
Photography: Henrique Wilding
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