Case Study
Dekton tops Cape Town furniture designer’s premium outdoor table collection
Haldane Martin
Location
Woodstock, Cape Town (South Africa)
Material
Dekton
Application
Table tops
Photography
Lindsay Rae
Architecture/Design
Haldane Martin
Colour
Radium, Kreta, Somnia, Neural, Umber, Nacre, Argentium, Micron
Thickness: 8 mm
20 mm
Stylist
Lana Friedericks
Haldane Martin, the multi-award-winning furniture and interior designer behind the eponymous Cape Town-based brand responsible for some of South Africa’s most iconic furniture designs, is renowned for his innovative outdoor leisure pieces designed for the ultimate living experience.
Martin believes that ‘designing meaningful objects and spaces helps us understand ourselves and creates a sense of belonging to our time and place’ — a statement that reflects the brand’s powerful sense of identity and relationship with nature.
Haldane Martin’s Plat-O Collection is a range of sleek, expansive tables topped with 20mm slabs of Dekton in a variety of earthy hues.
Svelte sophisticated tables
With a name inspired by the word ‘plateau’, the Plat-O Collection of tables from Haldane Martin employs upward-slanted geometric bases and stone tops to emulate the sleek appearance of flat land bounded by an escarpment.
Sophisticated and functional, the Plat-O Collection comprises round and oval tables with clean rounded edges atop table bases in powder-coated stainless steel. The full Plat-O offering ranges from elegant two-seaters to generous 20-seaters, as well as server tables and bar tables.
Tables topped with durable and luxurious Dekton
For the designers at Haldane Martin, the Plato-O tables required a surface that could handle extreme elements while maintaining a clean and sophisticated look and feel. Enter Dekton, Cosentino’s ultracompact stone that epitomises beauty and functionality.
Dekton is made with Sinterized Particle Technology, an exclusive high-tech process that mimics an accelerated version of the metamorphic change that natural stone undergoes subjected to high temperatures and pressure over thousands of years. The result is a surface with practically zero porosity, making it highly resistant to water, staining and chemical products, and an excellent choice for the outdoors.
The Plat-O Collection comes in a range of Dekton colours: Radium, Kreta, Somnia, Neural, Umber, Nacre, Argentium and Micron.