Flumen Side Table Basket by Sika-Design

"Flumen" is a decorative basket with soft, organic shapes that is perfect for dried or artificial flowers. The basket is handwoven from natural rattan, so slight variations in color and shape may occur.

This item is handmade from rattan, a climbing plant that grows like vines on trees in the Indonesian rainforest. Rattan is often confused with bamboo, but unlike hollow bamboo, rattan is a solid material. This makes rattan products very durable and virtually indestructible.

After a steam treatment lasting 10 to 15 minutes, rattan can be shaped by hand using old traditional crafting techniques and a few simple tools. There are 600 different varieties of rattan, and at Sika-Design we use exclusively the two highest-quality types, known as Tohiti and Manau.