AbstractFor a fixed K > 1 and n ∈ ℕ, n ≫ 1, we study metric spaces which admit embeddings with distortion ≤ K into each n-dimensional Banach space. Classical examples include spaces embeddable into log n-dimensional Euclidean spaces, and equilateral spaces.We prove that good embeddability properties are preserved under the operation of metric composition of metric spaces. In particular, we prove that n-point ultrametrics can be embedded with uniformly bounded distortions into arbitrary Banach spaces of dimension log n.The main result of the paper is a new example of a family of finite metric spaces which are not metric compositions of classical examples and which do embed with uniformly bounded distortion into any Banach space of dimension n. This partially answers a question of G. Schechtman.