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Northshore October 2025
If there is such a thing as a “democratic” furniture style, wicker is it. At one time just about everybody’s life was touched by the handmade, finely woven, functional furniture pieces and decorative furnishings. During wicker’s fin de siècle glory days, it was ubiquitous—in parlors, sunrooms, and bedrooms, on porches, in railroad buffet cars, in front of fireplaces, at photographers’ studios. Wicker was used in baby strollers and wheelchairs for sunlit strolls in the fresh air. Ladies sat for tea on wicker chairs or lounged on wicker divans. Wicker sustained lamplight, supported plants, and framed photographs. Most households, a
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