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Elegantly sociable, the round Matetsi table is a fine place to while away an evening with good friends and a bottle of Cape wine. Even the beautifully grained table top made of the world’s hardest timbers becomes a conversation piece. The table has a central turned pillar allowing unhindered leg room. Should you require a slimmer version, we will happily oblige with a more slender 30 millimetre (inch and a quarter) top and scaled down central pillar.
Our standard diameters are:
- 4 feet (1.2 meters) (4 seater) or
- 5 feet (1.5 meters) (6 seater).
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This piece is available in Reclaimed & Harvested Zambezi Teak. Click on Images to Enlarge:
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Reclaimed African Hardwood Table
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Harvested Zambezi Teak Table
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Elegantly sociable, the round Matetsi table is a fine place to while away an evening with good friends and a bottle of Cape wine. Even the beautifully fissured table top made of the world’s best reclaimed timber becomes a conversation piece! The table has a central turned pillar allowing unhindered leg room. Should you require a slimmer version, we will happily oblige with a more slender 30 millimetre (inch and a quarter) top and scaled down central pillar.
Manufactured from ancient African hardwoods that have been reclaimed principally from railroads, the timber used was harvested fifty to a hundred and fifty years ago by early colonial settlers. We purchase the railway sleepers, or ties, as they are replaced by concrete. They are now a very rare commodity, and therefore a unique investment. Because of the rarity of the resource, only a limited number of tables can ever be made. Their value is enhanced by the fact that they are from a fully reclaimed, or recycled, source, allowing you to enjoy the beautiful grain and texture of probably the finest furniture wood in the world without any guilt that a tree may have been cut down to afford you the pleasure!
Because of the years spent on the railway line where the timber is exposed to the full fury of the elements and massively heavy trains thundering overhead, it develops a particular character or ‘distressed’ look. This happens to varying degrees depending on the length of time the timber has been down, its position on the line and so on. This character only adds to the beauty of the wonderful timber from which it originated.
An investment of a lifetime that will last for many lifetimes.
The timber used to manufacture this masterpiece is probably the finest timber utilised anywhere in the world to make furniture, extremely hard with a fine, close grain and deep, rich natural colour. Zambezi Teak is a very dense, and therefore hard, wood. It is sometimes mistaken for Asian, Indian or Indonesian teak, which is a completely different species. Our Zambezi Teak is very much harder and more difficult to work. However, because it is so hard it is extremely resistant to biological attack and physical ware and tare, and will last, if looked after, for many hundreds of years.
Each piece is checked for quality no less that six times during the production process and no piece is allowed out of the factory without a final, thorough, check by the Senior Management Team.
Our designs reflect our practical methods of construction of the tables, while enhancing the natural beauty, colour and grain of the timber used. The massive turned legs of our Matetsi tables compliment the solid strength and beauty of the timber.
Our tables are designed to be dismantled with the removal of a few bolts and brackets to allow for ease of transportation and to drastically reduce freight charges while providing an extremely strong and durable construction.
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