Batoe

The Batoe Lounge Chair is an intricately woven natural rattan seat, its name meaning ‘rock’ in a past Indonesian language. The name, along with the laborious 6 day construction period, represents the complex struggle of the Cirebon home craft community to maintain their traditional methods of rattan production, against a background of pressures from colonialism to the monetary crisis of 1998. With its smooth undulating curves, this is an inviting piece with a nostalgic quality. Batoe is available in both natural rattan for inside and a synthetic version for outdoor living.