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Fairfi eld table lamp, $506 C eramic plates with wicker- pattern borders are made in Italy by artisans at the historic Este Ceramiche workshops, which the late ceramicist Giovanni Battista Giorgini acquired in 1955. The factory's warehouse is a trove of ancient ceramic molds that his son Giovanni Battista Fadigati uses as inspiration for new designs. Este Ceramiche e Porcellane Wicker plates, set of four from $280, set of 12 $1,170, at artemest. com. Victorians filled their solariums with wicker furniture and used ornate wicker stands to display botanical specimens and ferns brought back from global collecting expeditions. Sister Parish rarely designed a house that didn't have a sunroom decorated with wicker furniture, and philanthropist Bunny Mellon loved wicker baskets so much that she hung them by the dozens from the ceilings of her many houses, even devoting an entire building at her Oak Spring Farm in Virginia to storing them. Wicker, woven from lightweight willow, raffia, and straw or sturdy rattan palm, is part and parcel of the design patois of Mark D. Sikes, Amanda L i n d r o t h , T o m Scheerer, and Sarah B a r t h o l o m e w , t o name a few, who d e s i g n b r e e z y rooms in Harbour Island, Lyford Cay, and L.A. Wicker plates, set of four from $280, set N ashville interior d e s i g n e r S a r a h Bartholomew has designed the Cape Collection with Mainly Baskets Home, a 43-year-old Atlanta company beloved by designers; sizes, colors and fabrics all customizable. Cape Collection by Sarah Bartholomew, $433 to $2,398, at mainlybaskets.com. P aolo Moschino for Nicholas Haslam weather- proof Elba rattan furni- ture collection, above and right, is based on historic Edwardian-era designs evoking summer afternoons in the English countryside. Paolo Moschino for Nicholas Haslam, $800 to $3,500, at nicholashaslam.com. P aolo Paolo Moschino for Nicholas Haslam Elba rattan collection Este Ceramiche e Porcellane wicker plates THE WICKER VERNACULAR Mark D. Sikes room at Kips Bay Sarah Bartholomew for Mainly Baskets Chatham footstool, $661, and Tisbury armchair, $771, at mainlybaskets.com BY REBECCA SHERMAN Sarah Bartholomew for Mainly Baskets collection Paolo Moschino for Nicholas Haslam Soane Britain Drum shade 92