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This table is the second round in the 'bamboo-steel chair' collection we introduced at the 2011 Milan Salone. Bamboo furniture is often created by cutting notches into the wood then bending it, or by inserting pieces into other pieces to connect them. We chose another technique in which a length of bamboo is sliced vertically into thinner lengths which are then woven together to create legs and a tabletop from a single piece, and applied this method to a steel pipe. The result is structural balance and a new design sensibility until now nonexistent in steel furniture.