Rattan can be wicker, but not all wicker is made from rattan, although the terms are often confused.
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A few feet away sat the rattan couch (which, naturally, had palm leaf-print cushions) and the glass-topped rattan coffee table.
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Rattan pieces come in every shade of taupe and tan imaginable; the peacock chair, a throne-like woven vessel, is arguably the trendiest, most celebrated example of rattan.
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BackYard Furniture Chesterton 5 Seater Deepseating Rattan Garden Lounge Set
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Wicker and rattan earned a bad rap after midcentury overuse.
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But to talk about rattan, we should first talk about wicker.
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Rattan, and wicker in general, is a staple of tropical climates.
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But rattan and the bohemian aesthetic associated with it are everywhere.
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Billowy tapestries and rattan rugs add to the bohemian-den feeling.
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Just a handful of Europe's rattan ateliers are still in operation.
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All rooms have air conditioning and leaf-shaped rattan ceiling fans.
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Keter Pacific Rattan Style Outdoor Cool Bar Ice Cooler Table Garden Furniture
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Now, in the swing of summer, rattan will only become more popular.
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A group of men on low rattan stools were studying the Bible.
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But that's rattan in its natural state — it's better known in furniture form.
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Opt for one made with wicker, rattan, or rope for a bohemian accent.
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And there, hunched with a script in a rattan cafe chair, sits Armie Hammer.
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In the complex, young professionals sip Starbucks outside on rattan chairs and glass-topped tables.
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And Purse for the People ships hand-woven rattan handbags nationwide all from Butte, Montana.
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It refers to the process of weaving rattan together, which creates a distinct open pattern.
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But this hearty, fast-growing plant has become an economic stronghold in parts of the world, with an estimated global economy valued at $60 billion a year, according to the International Network of Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR), an intergovernmental organization promoting bamboo and rattan.
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The International Network for Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR) has now established an office in Addis-Ababa.
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PAS wants adulterers, for example, to receive as many as 100 lashes with a rattan cane.
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As I eased back in my rattan chair, men in suits stopped for coffee and cigarettes.
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The bed, with its artistic wood and rattan headboard, was quite comfortable and conducive to sleep.
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I peeked inside and the vibe was perfectly Parisien with checker tile and rattan cafe chairs.
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Its origins, disappointingly, are far from fantastical; the bright red resin is made from rattan palm trees.
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Up front, semi-closed-off booths feel like private rooms, with light filtered through rattan mats hung above.
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The government will also relax rules on coal, palm oil and rattan exports, Lukita said, without providing details.
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Men do the hot, physical work of bending the thick rods of rattan, and women do the weaving.
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In the early 27s, wooden armrests lined springy, cushioned seats covered with rattan, a material similar to bamboo.
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She's seated in a rattan chair, a torch in one hand and a cane knife in the other.
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The J.Crew Rattan clutch is a favorite among the royal ladies — both Meghan and Pippa Middleton have carried it.
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The unnamed woman received nearly 30 strokes of the rattan cane for selling alcohol in the conservative Indonesian province.
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The setting combines exposed brick with pale wood, stone and rattan, and includes home goods and apparel for sale.
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Caning punishments in prisons in Singapore employ a rattan cane, and are carried out by a trained prison officer.
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Leaf-print wallpaper, layered rugs and rattan chairs from Article create a cozy, Bohemian vibe reminiscent of her master suite.
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Nostalgia—for the hammock, for the rattan rocker on the porch—colors everyone's judgment of how we should be reading.
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Windak and the servers add a flaky, buttery coconut shrimp garnish before placing the drink atop tiny rattan peacock chair.
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Or, curl up with a good book on the vintage-inspired Rattan Fallon Cocoon Chair With Cushion ($137.99, normally $229.99).
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Designer Michaela Smeaton works with artisans in Bali, who create these eco-friendly bags from plant-based materials, like rattan.
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The chair here feels like a stand-in for the artist, flying around the earth in this broken rattan seat.
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There's a group of bamboo and rattan sculptures by Sopheap Pich, the Cambodian artist, inspired by trees in his homeland.
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Keep the au naturel vibe going with this Rattan Fallon Cocoon Chair ($160.99, normally $229.99) and take a load off.
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What better way to display the beloved survivors than on a $161 wooden tray or in a $208 rattan basket?
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The men whistled at the women, cheering as the hooded executioner's rattan cane struck their backs with a solid thwack.
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Traditionally, hunters made snares from rattan and other natural forest products which were "relatively weak and decomposed relatively quickly," says Gray.
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But the "exotic" nature of rattan wicker remained enticing, and Western designers began incorporating it — in some cases, without proper credit.
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Rattan the material isn't subject to cultural appropriation, she says — but can the trend and style that uses it heavily be?
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In the early 1980s, the family survived by selling rattan it harvested in nearby forests and eating wild fish and game.
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There were some nice indigenous touches, though, like a carved teak-and-rattan settee and pair of chairs with curving armrests.
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Made of bird and wasp nests, rattan and other materials, the crawl-in burrow contains small felt sculptures of soil bacteria.
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They purchased the Angraves workshop in Leicestershire — at one time the heart of the British rattan industry, which reached its peak in the Victorian era — and rehired its two chief craftsmen, frame maker Mick Gregory and master weaver Phil Ayres, both of whom began working in rattan over 40 years ago, when they were still teenagers.
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It takes inspiration from Singapore's local culture to mimic a rattan shelter and is held up by columns that resemble tree branches.
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From marble floors and exposed limestone walls to brown rattan furniture and Oriental rugs, the décor exudes both Baroque and Mediterranean flair.
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There are many textures (metals, silks, leathers, rattan) and many styles, including kitsch (the metallic palm tree-shaped floor lamp in the bedroom).
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And, of course, we anchor our living rooms with rattan coffee tables and peruse Amazon's dedicated section full of similar items and wares.
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Rattan went from being found at garage sales and on Craigslist to the aisles of big-box stores — so much for counterculture, right?
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When I came on to Amazon, this bag was recommended to me in my rattan search and I ended up buying this instead.
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They sat, without formality, at bare tables, on rough rattan chairs, and ate these gorgeous, tasty galettes at any hour of the day.
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Not long after, she shared a blurry photo of him, sitting on a rattan chair at their family home, playing with their dog.
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The Papasan chairs are made with rattan, a material used to develop gondolas, hot air balloons, and suspension bridges, according to Pier 1.
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Local media said the orangutan, two geckos and four chameleons were allegedly found inside a small rattan basket in one of his suitcases.
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It's got cross-gender appeal, as well: little girls would love nothing more than stuffed horses they can dress in traditional rattan fighting garb.
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What it is: Rattan is what's most often used to create furniture that makes you feel as if you've entered a Tahitian beach resort.
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"High backs are very popular now," she said, singling out an armchair wrought in the sort of rattan that she had helped make fashionable.
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Wielding a shuttlecock-shaped basket attached to a long rattan pole, Mr. Pérez pointed to the sea urchins nestled in clumps near the rocks.
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Very few still wear traditional loincloths but the Penan maintain strong ties to the forest and forage for rattan for weaving and medicinal plants.
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Like bamboo, rattan is a strong and durable vine that can grow as a climbing or non-climbing palm primarily found in Southeast Asia's rainforests.
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The aforementioned rattan peacock chairs and similar seating pieces serve as stylish backdrops for businesses that want to benefit from consumers' love of Instagram playgrounds.
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The modern caning trend isn't limited to chairs, with retailers expanding into other kinds of rattan furniturePottery Barn currently sells this Dolores Cane Buffet Cabinet.
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The Kenji Rattan Chair ($111.99, normally $159.99) adds more island vibes and the Hammered Metal Cala Coffee Table ($230.99, normally $329.99) is the golden touch.
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The World Wildlife Fund, for example, sponsors sustainable rattan and acacia farming as buffer zones for beleaguered natural preserves along the western border with Laos.
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The rest of the sunny space came together with a little less elbow grease, and now sports rattan furniture, a pergola and a plethora of plants.
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"It grows without having to add anything," Dr. Hans Friederich, the director general of the International Network for Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR), based in Beijing, says.
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From oversized beach totes and itty-bitty woven baskets starting things off, handbag designers everywhere have adopted straw, wicker, rattan, and even bamboo into their collections.
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Kilims, antique sewing machines, a set of 1950s towels, and moldering linen imported from Europe and embroidered with the hotel's name, cascaded from large rattan trunks.
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Tuck it into the dollhouse attic, and if it grows tiresome, refurnish the entire room with rattan chairs, a shag rug and a soft pink palette.
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Together they hunted for touches justes, which include Pierre Frey palm-printed textiles and the antique rattan armchairs that sit on the rum bar's breezy terrace.
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In this instance, Thomas fluently interweaves cultural signifiers, like Huey P. Newton's recognizable rattan peacock chair and a silky durag, into her meticulously curated studio set.
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From rattan bags to textured sandals, rainbow-striped dresses to oversized sun hats, this summer's aesthetic is shaping up to be joyful, playful and brimming with color.
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That means it's time to retire your rattan, your palm prints, and your sweet floral candles in favor of decor that's a little more pumpkin-spice-flavored.
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Moore is a fan of this ZYER serving tray, as it "adds a touch of natural texture to any space" and is made with eco-friendly rattan.
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Perhaps best known for its rugs, the company also sells furniture and decor that offers updates on classic materials and patterns like rattan dressers and Persian runners.
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Others, like the Urak Lawoi on Rawai beach in Phuket, have a more settled life while fishing in the Andaman Sea with their traps of rattan and wire.
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Cocktails like the zingy Lemon-H (with homemade lemonade and bourbon) are served in the bright, airy parlor and outside — where rattan rocking chairs line the front porch.
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Tote bags full of slippers from the Moroccan souk, tasseled rattan pouches and piles of test patterns, all stored away in the nooks and crannies of the showroom.
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It contains a world map and a junk rattan chair, and it reminds me of the capsule of a rocket, which you see many times in Rauschenberg's work.
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Competition has come mostly in the form of imported cheaper pieces, which might be a fine thing, especially for the countries where rattan grows, like Indonesia and Malaysia.
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She is not just the owner, but the company's sole artisan, doing the physically taxing work of firing and shaping rattan with the help of just one assistant.
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By the 29s, the rattan on many seats was replaced with Velon, a type of plastic fabric, and in terms of comfort, it was mostly downhill from there.
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This will be true whether you have a seat on a rattan stool at either of the two counters or at a whitewashed table in the front window.
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There's a solid black headboard, which plays off the rest of the bed's sleek aesthetic and a rattan headboard that would add a more rustic feel to a room.
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The Serena and Lily South Seas Bar Cart is made of handwoven rattan that pairs perfectly with a natural, earth-tone backdrop, live potted plants, and a cucumber beverage.
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The pigment actually owed its intense redness to the resin secreted from trees growing on the islands of Socotra and Sumatra, especially the rattan palm and the Dracaena draco .
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In 2018 it is a jaw-dropping display of baskets made of rattan and wire by Native American inmates at the Iowa State Penitentiary at Anamosa in the 1930s.
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Otherland Rattan Sandalwood, Amber, and Moss candle, available at Otherland, $36Help bring relaxing energy into their new home with this hand-poured candle made from soy and coconut wax.
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It shows: in "The Tigers of Mompracem" Chinese sailors sport traditional bianzi haircuts, and the rigging on Sandokan's ship is made from rattan, a type of South East Asian palm.
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I spent two days writhing, sweating and feeling like my stomach was going to burst in a rattan-frame bed in an air-condition-less budget hotel in Phnom Penh.
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The International Bamboo and Rattan Organisation, an intergovernmental body based in Beijing, says the renewable, low-carbon alternative to plastics and timber is now "part of China's environmental leadership bid".
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Lindroth notes that while some rattan and wicker won't look right in homes in colder climates, many interior design companies are creating furniture that works in more urban environments too.
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A testament to a Swedish love of good and simple design, Larsson Korgmakare's style of seating is crafted almost exclusively from the larger rattan poles, incorporating almost no intricate weaving.
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The problem in Vietnam has become so bad that some people in tourist areas have started handing out reusable bags made from rattan, and use newspapers to wrap market produce.
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In her thesis on the history of wicker, Emily Morris explains that Europeans recreated the style of wicker rattan by using willow, which lent itself to the shabby-chic, country look.
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The second-floor gallery housing the exhibition radiates with riveting black-and-white photographs, but the most evocative object may be the bare beechwood deck chair with a ripped rattan seat.
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The country had little history of chairs and furniture but had a rich tradition of natural materials like bamboo and rattan, which Perriand adapted to designs extrapolated from the International style.
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Now the men strip rattan vines that women in the tribe weave into baskets or hammocks, to sell by the roadside along with orchids gathered by their children, Datu Lisano said.
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Ubud is the place Elizabeth Gilbert&aposs "Eat Pray Love" made us all want to go to start our lives over, and bring back a Rattan purse as proof we did.
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The outdoor garden featured fountains, climbing vines, and twinkle lights, and the bar itself was a standout with crimson topped rattan stools and an impressive piece of woodwork at the center.
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Reopened earlier this month, the Cheval Blanc, a beloved fashion- and art-world hangout, combines elegant minimalist interiors — all whitewashed walls and rattan furniture — with lush tropical surrounds (bougainvillea, banana leaf).
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Scroll on to find the chair that fits your summer-life adventures — from full-length loungers to chic rattan fold-ups, collapsible quads with armrest coolers, fully inflatable air sofas, and more.
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We also have our eyes on this adorable Kate Spade rattan drawstring satchel that&aposs currently 35 percent off and these cute taupe slingback sandals from TOMS that are 30 percent off.
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Last year, he was tapped by Ikea to design an entire collection that will debut in 2018, and he is contributing to Ikea's 2017 Jassa collection, which uses natural fibers and rattan.
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The trend is defined by gentle neutrals mixed with splashes of color (think deep emeralds and rusty oranges), houseplants galore, and, perhaps most importantly, natural materials — the star of which is rattan.
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Designer John Patrick McHugh "produced many designs that mimicked Asian rattan forms, and bestowed them with exotic (although non-Asian) names such as the Porto Rico Chair and the Panama Chair," she writes.
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The rising star Arushi Mudgal from New Delhi in a classical Odissi solo, the North Indian vocalist Rattan Mohan Sharma and a new program: "Dualities in Dance" featuring Mesma Belsare and Kiran Rajagopalan.
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"Jesus Christ," Dhillon, a Trump administration official, reportedly said to prosecutors, including Joe Brown, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Texas, and Heather Rattan, known for prosecuting members of drug cartels.
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Who puts feathers on the hem of a gardening tunic (also on sneakers and espadrilles, though they were removable) over some flared trousers and tops it all off with a giant rattan hat.
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A slew of rooms that seem to be designed with night life in mind are reached from the lobby, where rattan chairs sit amid jars of candy and portraits of men in cravats.
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Pull up a rattan bistro chair to dine on dishes including candied lamb shoulder with red onion pickles and grilled mashed potato pancakes, and line-caught hake with cabbage and white-wine fondue.
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Nilfisk C 120 bar Pressure Washer Bosch Rotak 32R Electric Rotary Lawnmower Hozelock Trico Flex Ultra Max Anti-Crush 30 m Hose Hozelock Flood Pump Self Priming Keter Pacific Rattan Style Outdoor Cool Bar Ice Cooler Table Garden Furniture Allibert by Keter California 2 Seater Rattan Outdoor Sofa Scancom Wood Outdoor Steamer Chair Intex 366 x 76 cm Metal Frame Pool Lay-Z-Spa Saint Tropez Hot Tub Char-Broil - 4 Burner Gas Barbecue Grill Char-Broil - 2 Burner Gas Barbecue Grill
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Scroll on for just a few of the items that are coming to Ikea this April, and take note: It's all about overcast days spent swaddled in bedsheets and lounging on updated rattan furniture.
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A fresh navy blue, white and pink color palette and a rope-trimmed mirror establish a nautical theme, while rattan furnishings and a slew of geometric motifs lend the outdoor room a boho vibe.
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"We're seeing such a resurgence of maximalism, and I think that rattan is just a great neutral to kind of balance out some of the bolder wall coverings we're starting to see," says Blakeney.
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It was July, and when I arrived at the café we'd agreed upon she was waiting—a textbook Parisienne with her coffee and her cigarettes and some great outfit, perched on a rattan stool.
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Though it's far from any passing foot traffic, within a matter of months the brand's wicker and rattan furniture had caught the attention of interior designers, including Pierre Yovanovitch, Charles Zana and David Netto.
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Here, highly skilled artisans create furniture the way they always have: by heating stiff poles of rattan into malleable rods that are bent on a metal frame and willed into functional works of art.
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It meant not only the loss of jobs and his family's business, but as the company was the last rattan-weaving workshop in England, forever losing the art of traditional wicker-making in Britain.
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"I found a 1920s haute couture hat in Paris, which was basically a Vietnamese rattan hat covered in white and red polka dots, and decided to do the entire hotel like that," he says.
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HONG KONG — Officers on the Indonesian resort island of Bali found a primate the size of a human toddler curled up in a rattan basket this weekend — in the middle of an international airport.
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Their brand of manliness was defiant and swaggering: peeping out the window with rifle in hand, perched on rattan chair toting a firearm and a spear, or raising a black fist mightily through the air.
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Home movies show me running excitedly through the hollow structure that would soon be filled with late '113s rattan furniture, the scent of my mom's cooking, and Rocío Dúrcal's voice coming out of the stereo.
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Bamboo is ideal for rebuilding in Nepal's mountainous terrain because it grows widely and is easier to transport than heavier materials, said Adhikary, Nepal's national coordinator for the International Network for Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR).
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The women, who were convicted of "sexual relations between women," were each struck six times with a rattan cane in front of witnesses in the Shariah High Court in the state of Terengganu, officials said.
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With few exceptions — an Atelier de Troupe leather sling chair, a pair of Italian high-back rattan chairs designed in the 1970s — there are hardly any furniture pieces in the apartment that aren't built-ins.
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There will usually be some cutting or slicing, often into exquisitely thin strands, and maybe some soaking beforehand; along the way rattan might be used for reinforcement and, toward the finish, lacquer may be applied.
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There, the expert overhauled the space, tossed outdated items, and recommended a list of new toys from luxury shops like Maisonette and Scandibørn, including a $2260 wooden vegetable set and a $212 rattan doll bassinet.
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Right now, you can snag this chic upholstered bed for more than half off, this full-size Tempur-Pedic mattress for $1,000 off, and this four-piece rattan outdoor seating set for over 60 percent off.
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Blakeney says in part, the renewed appreciation for rattan and the bohemian trend overall is tied to the resurgence of '70s fashion: Flare jeans, corduroy, and macrame are back — or maybe they never entirely went away.
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That will happen at this Sunday morning benefit, when the museum will offer shuttle rides between its platform and the Hoyt-Schermerhorn station on R-1/403 cars, 1930s models with rattan seats and ceiling fans.
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This includes lessons in husking coconuts, peeling rattan, opening thick-skinned fruits, sucking termites out of nests, using tools to obtain valuable honey, collecting swarming ants, opening beehives for the nutritious larvae within, and so much more.
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You'll find everything from animal-shaped rattan bar carts to a vibrant fruit-printed chairs, multicolored sea-grass coasters, hand-painted monogrammed tumblers, radiant indoor-outdoor area rugs, and even a chicly-tasseled beach umbrella or two.
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"In that sense," Dr. Rattan said, "this work suggests that your belief system about others can either be a barrier or a staircase where you can take that first step — even if it's just saying, 'I disagree.'"
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A good third of the gallery has been given over to bamboo and rattan mats gathered from across Thailand, on which gallerygoers can chill out for a spell; just make sure to take off your shoes first.
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Resting in a throne-like seat, the figure's stance is modeled after an iconic photograph of Huey P. Newton, which shows the Black Panther Party leader seated in a rattan peacock chair, grasping a rifle and a spear.
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Fathers, brothers, friends, and boyfriends shifted anxiously on the rattan love seat if you made them wait for you in the foyer as the parade of women walked by — sometimes snickering, always relishing how pained these menfolk appeared.
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Since the start of the Industrial Revolution, agricultural practices and animal husbandry have released an estimated 135 gigatons — 135 billion metric tons — of carbon into the atmosphere, according to Rattan Lal, a soil scientist at Ohio State University.
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Lytle revitalized the company's old-fashioned designs with playful updates of English country classics like tall barstools with diamond-patterned backs, petite side tables crafted entirely of tightly woven rattan and lampshades made in a traditional basket weave.
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Resembling the iconic image of Black Panther Party co-founder Huey P. Newton sitting on a throne with rifle and spear in each hand, a young man wearing sunglasses and a beret sits cross-legged on a rattan chair.
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Or it might be the new Grandstand stadium terrace, which has been made into a kind of open-air, tired-spectators' lounge, featuring rattan sofas, umbrellas, a cool breeze and views that take in Courts 8 to 10 below.
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The Thai men's team comprises 15 players for sepaktakraw, which sees players twist and turn their bodies in mid-air to send a rattan ball into the opposing court using any part of their bodies except hands and arms.
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Named for the practice of dining while sitting cross-legged on straw mats, they serve surprisingly complete rattan platters of flame-roasted beef or grilled duck, fish or pigeon, each with rice cakes or tofu, and a slab of fiery sambal.
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Where it is: Rattan furniture is flooding home decor Instagram, especially in the shopping Discover tab, where brands including (but definitely not limited to) Ikea, Urban Outfitters, Joybird, Anthropologie, and Target are advertising their tropics-influenced furniture and home products.
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Restoration Hardware's Chesterfield-style sofa, or West Elm's Parsons table, or a handful of usual suspects from Ikea: those pleasingly plain kitchen cabinets; those rattan chairs; that Malm bed, whose austere low-slung minimalism conjures the ghost of Donald Judd.
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And in "Citizen of World III," a young man sits in a chair that resembles the rattan piece Williams owned, its back forming a halo around the subject, while numbers float in front of him like points on a dart board.
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The Abbeys have enhanced this masterwork with two more of his pieces: a wonderful anomaly in the form of a perfectly bowled bowler hat in bamboo and rattan and a boxy yet gently swelling lidded basket for transporting tea ceremony utensils.
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The office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) has removed tariffs for five Indonesian products: laminated plywood, some thin plywood, dry onion, rattan handicrafts as well as artificial sugar, honey and caramel, Indonesian trade ministry said late on Tuesday.
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Buys from both categories, whether it's a rustic rattan bookcase or an eye-popping, floral green swivel chairs, conjure the fresh energy of long leisurely afternoons spent outside during much more mild weather than many of us are experiencing IRL at the moment.
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Book Ocean Key Resort & Spa starting at $296 per nightWith hues of lime, aqua, and turquoise plus rattan and wicker accent furniture running throughout both guest rooms and public spaces, Ocean Key Resort & Spa, a Noble House Resort, truly honors its surroundings.
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The 18 stucco-walled suites and villas were also renovated — but the décor (spare but charming, with vintage botanical prints, rattan furniture and floral-patterned textiles) still feels wonderfully retro — and the Jareckis are helping to restore the damaged coral reef just offshore.
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Inside are potted palms, the bar area with rattan chairs and sofas, wallpaper with big green palm fronds, and you feel as if you are on a Hollywood set for a French colonial house in Vietnam, the movie scripted by Marguerite Duras.
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The classic cafes of Parisian boulevards — rattan chairs and their occupants facing the sun in all but the nastiest weather, waiters stepping nimbly over small dogs — are central to the city's street culture, but they're pretty marginal to its eating and drinking culture now.
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And indeed, the style is old — while wicker's apex was in the 113th century, when trade routes from Asia brought a steady supply of rattan to Europe, the art of weaving objects from natural fibers actually goes back at least as far as ancient Egypt.
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When Larsson decided to join the business, her father sent her to Malaysia for six months to apprentice in the harvest and processing of rattan, an experience she may pass on to her 11-year-old daughter if she decides to continue the legacy.
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In "A New Look for Familiar Forms" we encounter the exquisite custom-made cabinetry of Jacques-Émile Ruhlmann and a majestic gondola sofa by Marcel Coard, its cradling curve of base and arms made from rosewood carved to simulate rattan and edged in brass.
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SOMEWHERE, PERHAPS on a great-aunt's Thanksgiving table, or in the drawer of a rattan nightstand in that cottage you rented on the Cape or in a yellowed photo from an advertising supplement that an Etsy find came wrapped in, you have seen it.
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For this installation, Beasley lifted inspiration from two sources: the 17th-century Baroque altarpiece designed by sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini at the St. Peter's Basilica in Rome and a photographic portrait of the Black Panther Party co-founder Huey P. Newton sitting in a rattan peacock chair.
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" Their wedding planner, Karen Waldron of Ampersand Entertainment, says "the couple wanted romantic elegance with lots of natural elements, set against crisp white walls mixed with wood tables, hanging rattan light fixtures, an abundance of white and green floral, that kept it beautifully classic and fresh.
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So while we won't be packing away our winter wardrobes just yet, we will be warming our spaces up with an assortment of stylish and unique home buys — from woven-rattan bed frames to vibrant velvet poufs, soft modern lounge chairs, rustic mango-wood vanities, and more.
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It's more than this, though: Blakeney says interest in natural materials like rattan likely also has something to do with consumers' and manufacturers' attempts to move away from plastic, and that the popularity of online shopping makes rattan's lightness a benefit to businesses shipping these products.
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Along the way, Olowu, who splits his time between London and New York, was stopped in his tracks by an opulent window display at Soane Britain, the 23-year-old furniture, lighting and fabric maker that is particularly renowned for reviving disappearing artisanal techniques such as rattan.
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One of Ms. Lonning's pieces, a cone-shaped, black rattan basket big enough to hold a swaddled infant, is punctuated by ikat-style slashes of vivid color; more whimsical still is a spherical "hairy" vase, whose symmetrical protruding fibers evoke the geometry of a drawing made with a spirograph.
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Up I head to a waiting area that feels like a yoga studio, with rattan matting on the floor, semi-open walls with glimpses of palm thatch, a little reception desk, and an impressive amount of birdsong for an area whose rice fields are rapidly turning to villas.
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"It has been 18 years and a day we will never forget," read the show notes left on every one of the vintage white rattan fan chairs and iron park benches and wicker garden-party seats arrayed sparingly at one end of the cavernous space, like little clouds.
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The 33 rooms and two penthouses are decorated in a Nordic-inspired palette of white and charcoal, and there are hanging rattan chairs in the rooftop pool and bar area, where, come Saturday night, Sydney-based fashion designers enjoy prawn and crab bruschetta, beetroot burrata and cocktails. bannisters.com.
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In a first round of renovation, she knocked down a wall to create an open fireplace of stone and blasted oak in the drawing room, which she painted pale lemon yellow and filled with sofas upholstered in a geometric print by David Hicks and white-painted rattan furniture.
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Aneeta Rattan, an assistant professor of organizational behavior at the London Business School and Carol Dweck of Stanford found in a recent study that people who are optimistic and believe that others can change — that a bigot, with time, can change stripes — are more likely than the pessimists to say something.
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Here (much as in nature), nothing exactly matches, but everything fits: a Kashmiri silk bedspread embroidered with butterflies, a dresser inlaid with camel bone, lamps jerry-built from vases, chairs found decades ago at the Chelsea flea market in New York, their cracked Lucite seats replaced with weather-hardy rattan.
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Create your own summer getaway without ever leaving home by stocking up on any of the compact, durable, and under $150 essentials ahead — from earthenware plant stands that double as streamlined seating to canvas folding chairs you can easily tote or stowaway, retro lantern lights, water-resistant ottomans, rattan bar carts, and more.
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Sopheap Pich's "Cargo" (2018), which comprises two, six-meter-long shipping containers made out of bamboo, rattan, and metal commissioned by the gallery, suspended by wires several meters in the air, looms over the heads of guests and gives the sense of an alien light fixture before it registers as a work of art.
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"Did you spend thousands of dollars on the internet today?" he asks when he gets home from work and finds me with my pillows and hot-water bottles on the not-perfect couch where he left me in the morning, a low-slung rattan situation my parents bought as patio furniture in the early '90s.
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Gay men caned in front of cheering Indonesian crowd Gay men caned in front of cheering Indonesian crowd BANDA ACEH — The crowd hurled insults while the men winced their way through 210 lashes from a rattan cane on Tuesday as Indonesia's only province to implement Sharia law punished two young men for gay sex.
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Now that I'm done with it, I can't help but think of how it reminds me of how I hear members of the living history-focused Society for Creative Anachronism's describe the peculiar way they celebrate the Middle Ages and justify their penchant for beating each other with rattan sticks: "It's the past as it should have been."
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" Their wedding planner, Karen Waldron of Ampersand Entertainment, tells PEOPLE, "The couple wanted romantic elegance with lots of natural elements, set against crisp white walls mixed with wood tables, hanging rattan light fixtures, an abundance of white and green floral, that kept it beautifully classic and fresh," adding, "Touches of gold accents were mixed into the tables for just that splash of glam.
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The haul included glass-topped side tables, open bookcases, ivory leather bar stools, accent chairs with rattan panels, a sand-colored sofa that she really didn't think she needed — "I said my old one would be fine, and my stepmother said it wasn't going to work; she, of course, was right" — and a glass-topped round dining table that was a particular object of desire.
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At No. 19, Mahdavi sells Bishop (a twenty-two-hundred-dollar combination stool and end table that recently entered the permanent collection of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs), as well as plates, cushions, nesting bowls, peanut-shaped trays, folding chairs with seats woven from polymer thread, rattan mirrors that bring to mind space-age shamrocks, blown-glass lamps with rocket-like bases and ballooning shades in improbably gorgeous combinations such as caramel and gray.
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At the Mumbai innovation center of one of India's largest manufacturing firms, Godrej & Boyce, which produces everything from submarine parts to padlocks, Rowley joined a small team of designers tasked with cataloging every waste product the corporation produced, then recruiting local craftspeople to experiment with the discarded materials: She gave old raffia to rattan artisans, who wove it into chairs; disused copper wire went to ceramists, who crocheted it into patterns to adorn their pottery.
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Inside, it's the English interior designer Rita Konig's Hollywood fantasy: grass cloth on the walls; a Prada-green living room with a fireplace, honor bar and bold upholstery; a secluded little roof bar (open only to guests and their guests) with rattan chairs and cactus in pots; a reception desk that doubles as a wine bar (the clerk pours a complimentary glass during check-in); a bright yellow kitchen; and 23 uniquely designed guest rooms that have the air of an impossibly tasteful best friend's pied-à-terre.
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