Pia's picks: Why I'm having my garden furniture woven now
20-4-2026
Translation: machine translated
I used to weave as a child. The result was a potholder that my mum politely ignored. Now someone else weaves for me - and the result is on my patio.
Garden furniture with a woven pattern has completely won me over this summer. Not the familiar wickerwork that frays and turns brown after two summers. It's furniture where rope or synthetic rattan is woven at right angles in an over-and-under pattern - like on a weaving frame - and the result looks so precise that you forget where you're sitting for a moment.
The potholder was right after all
Woven patterns work because they are not just decorative. They stabilise, they breathe, they dry quickly. A woven rope is no softer than solid wood - instead it is springy, light and uncomplicated. And depending on the weave density, the over-under grid casts shadows on the floor in the sunlight like a small work of art.
The «Sedalis» table from Kave Home gets to the heart of the craft. The aluminium and steel frame is wrapped in hand-woven rope, while the round table top itself is made of aluminium.
Source: Kave Home
Source: Kave Home
«Sedalis» is robust enough for any weather and light enough to move on the spur of the moment. Thanks to the corrosion protection, rust can't get a hold of it - not even in places you can't see. It is also available as a side table, which is almost more useful on small patios than the large one.
Chair or woven art?
The «Kazoun» chair from Woood is at the other end of the spectrum: multicoloured instead of monochrome, polypropylene instead of rope. It sounds like less, but it is more because the shape itself carries the weave pattern. The surface is textured, the metal frame is powder-coated and the weight is low.
Source: Woood
Hanging and weaving
In the «Saliga» hanging chair from Kave Home, the weaving pattern becomes the main structure: synthetic rattan over an aluminium frame, UV-resistant, with chain and carabiner included. The trick with hanging chairs is always the weight. With this one, it's light enough that you really can put it up and take it down every day if you want to.
Source: Kave Home
Woven garden furniture is not a compromise between indoors and outdoors. They combine the best of both worlds: material that would be too good for indoors and craftsmanship that really comes into its own outdoors.
The pot holder was just the beginning. It's nice that someone has made more out of it than just a kitchen cloth.
Garden chairs
Mendler Garden chair HWC-H56b, weatherproof Rope wickerwork Rope wood acacia - green Cushion cream
Bloomingville Calana
−11%
EUR159,– was EUR179,–
Woood Garten
Mendler Garden chair HWC-H56b, weatherproof Rope wickerwork Rope wood acacia - green Cushion cream
Kave Home Dandara
194 cm
La Redoute Interieurs Briana
200 cm
Cane-line Peacock Rope Gartensessel Mit Teakfüssen
Kave Home Saliga
180 kg
Kave Home Sedalis
Kave Home Sedalis
In the series «Pias Picks» you can regularly see my favourite finds that I don't need but adore anyway.
Header image: Kave Home
Pia Seidel
Senior Editor
Pia.Seidel@digitecgalaxus.chLike a cheerleader, I love celebrating good design and bringing you closer to everything furniture- and interior design- related. I regularly curate simple yet sophisticated interior ideas, report on trends and interview creative minds about their work.
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