Ferdinand Bol and Rembrandt van Rijn captured them in the 17th century portraits of aristocrats. In the 20th century, the Persian carpets on top of the table emerged to the average households and disappeared in the nineties. The contemporary collection Café 6116 is inspired on this. The full collection contains a dining table, three coffee tables and floor tiles in which actual Persian carpets are processed. That carpets carry memories and secrets in them. Those memories are captures. The construction comes in two colours; anthracite steel and a hand polished bronze.

Ruben van Megen (1984) graduated in 2012 from the Design Academy in Eindhoven (the Netherlands). His passion for design and fascination for material research are a guarantee for high profile and unique work. The work of Ruben is internationally showed on a regular basis. For example at the Salone del Mobile, during the London Design Festival and at the Dutch Design Week. The collection Café 6116 is part of the collection at different international galleries and to be seen in the Red Dot Museum in Essen (Germany) until May ’18. Please visit www.rubenvanmegen.com for further information.

Our designs are 100% Dutch. They are skeched up and made in our own studio and workshop. Every piece we designe with love and attention. Characteristic for our designs is the experimental character and new materials. Due to a wide range of interests and thorough schooling, Ruben works with different kind of materials, techniques and machinery.