Designer Mark D. Sikes's New Rattan Collaboration

Ask Mark D. Sikes about rattan furniture and the Los Angeles decorator gets practically evangelical. “Mark Hampton, Michael Taylor, and Marella Agnelli all used a lot of rattan in their rooms,” he enthuses. “Yet most people still think of it as an outdoor element.”

To help correct the situation, he teamed with London-based furnishings firm Soane Britain to devise the Lily collection of woven wonders for indoor use, each fetching piece handmade by English artisans. “I have an all-American aesthetic, but I’ve always been a huge admirer of Soane,” Sikes explains. “The company’s work exemplifies impeccable craftsmanship and also has a sense of whimsy. It’s a complete art form.”

Named for the designer’s French bulldog, the Lily line was launched in May at Sikes’s wildly admired dining room for the Kips Bay Decorator Show House in New York. Deployed amid wall-to-wall red gingham, the table and chairs—lightweight creations Soane cofounder Lulu Lytle calls “airy but solid”—brought a casual West Coast vibe to the manorial space.

Among the pieces in the range are an armchair whose eye-catching base brings to mind breeze-rippled fabric, a drum table informed by garden stools, and a tailored slipper chair in the manner of American style icon Billy Baldwin. Additional models, including a sofa and a dog bed, will be released in November. [soaneo.uk

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See some of our favorite pieces from the collection.