The Impossibly Chic Rooms That Elevated Wicker to Cult Status Among Designers

Wicker seating has long been synonomous with outdoor rooms in vacation homes and resorts, from screened porches at mountain lake houses and country farmhouses to seaside verandas from Maine to the coast of France.

But the world's most sophisticated and well-traveled designers have been quietly defying that conventional wisdom for decades, installing beloved woven rattan pieces in decidedly nonresort locales and distinctly indoor rooms. Now, the notion that every room is more refined with at least one good piece of wicker is a near-universal truth, and top designers around the world, from England and the Bahamas to South Africa, are launching new collections to serve the growing demand.

Here, a look back at 10 of the most iconic rooms from the last 100-plus years that have helped cement wicker as an essential element in today's relaxed elegance design vocabulary.