Developed for indoor spaces through Activa Leisure
A handwoven rattan accent chair developed as part of a category-development program built to carry an outdoor furniture business through its off-season. With revenue concentrated in the patio season, the company looked to indoor furniture as a counter-seasonal line — and to a national warehouse-club retailer, where it already held an outdoor relationship, as the route in. The brief was to analyze the retailer's existing indoor assortment and find the opening. The analysis surfaced a clear one: rattan and wicker were absent from the floor entirely, at a moment when woven natural materials had moved decisively from the back patio into mainstream interiors — carried through 2019–2020 by the broader boho and natural-materials direction running across both specialty and mass retail.
The chair was drawn to read as more crafted than the channel's typical indoor seating while staying buildable to its cost and dimensional constraints. The frame carries a deliberate thick-to-thin transition, giving the piece presence at one end and lightness across a single continuous silhouette. Handwoven rattan panels form the seat and back, doing the visual and textural work, while a cotton-blend cushion supplies the sit. A charcoal finish against natural rattan keeps the read modern rather than nostalgic — bringing the material's warmth in without the grandmother's-porch association that had kept it off the floor.
The Sachs Harbour Accent Chair translates a rising material into a piece engineered for the channel — woven warmth composed with quiet structural restraint.