Canto Dining Table

The table that makes the dining room feel like India's most considered room.
There are dining tables that hold the gathering and there are dining tables that make the gathering feel like an occasion. The Canto was designed to make every meal an occasion. A deep black stained wood top — softly rounded, generously wide, the grain of the timber visible beneath the darkness — sits above six columns that are the entire story of the piece: natural cane and black fluted alternating in a considered rhythm, each column banded with dull gold rings at regular intervals, all six rising from a single undulating gold brass base that flows between the column feet like the base of a temple or the roots of something ancient and entirely resolved. The cane brings the woven craft heritage of Indian making. The fluted black brings architectural precision. The gold ties them together.
The Canto takes its material story seriously — three materials, each one chosen for what it brings that the others cannot.Wood gives the top the authority of a surface designed to hold the best meals and the most important gatherings. Natural cane gives the columns the warmth and texture of Indian craft tradition at its most considered. Dull gold brass gives every junction — the bands, the base, the column caps — the quiet luxury of a material that carries richness without ostentation. A dining table designed in India, for the home that understands the most considered dining rooms are always the ones where the table was chosen as the most important piece in the house — because it is.