It’s not that your sitting space is stuffy – the windows are open, the lighting faces south, you’ve even got linen throw pillows for crying out loud. So why does the room still feel so serious?
There’s a chance you’re missing rattan: the once-boho, now broadly irresistible material designers are weaving into living rooms every which way for 2026 living room trends. Because it can be webbed, braided, scalloped, looped, or fashioned into cane as intricate or playful as you like, brands are reinventing unassuming silhouettes with increasingly creative spins that tack on the texture.
Some are musing on the glamour of rattan’s swankier ’60s and ’70s Palm Beach past (Anthropologie recently released a flamingo-shaped daybed seemingly designed for lounging theatrically with a cigarette holder in hand), while others, like Joanna Gaines' Magnolia, are feeding the current whimsy obsession with scalloped trays and bowls that make bookshelves read, literally and figuratively, less repressed.
So no, rattan isn’t just for hippies or patio furniture anymore. These 24 pieces have significantly more design chops than your hand-me-down sunroom set ever did.
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