Dezeen Showroom: South African designer Haldane Martin used industrial dairy tubing to create the oversized legs of the Dombolo outdoor table range, released through his own brand Haldane.

Named after the plump dumplings from Xhosa culture that are popular in South Africa, Dombolo dining and coffee tables feature sculptural rounded legs paired with imperfectly circular tabletops.

The intentionally oversized, sculptural legs are made from dairy tubing – a type of standardised stainless steel pipe used in the dairy industry – while the tops are made from Consentino’s Dekton Kraftizen, an engineered stone with a tactile, plaster-like surface effect.

The shapes and materials give the Dombolo tables an overall soft and organic character that Martin has likened to amoeba cells, and that he says create a relaxed feel well-suited to the outdoors.

“Dezeen Showroom: Haldane says “A Dombolo dining table overlooking the ocean is the embodiment of the Cape Town lifestyle, an expression of the brand’s ethos blending nature and culture,”

The Dombolo range is available in a range of sizes. Unique colour combinations can be created by mix-and-matching from a choice of 10 neutral Dekton Kraftizen hues for the tops and a rainbow of 24 powder-coated shades for the legs.

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