The World of Atelier Vime

""The founders of Atelier Vime, Benoît Rauzy and Anthony Watson, have revived the art of wicker weaving and spurred a remarkable resurgence in the craft. Their first book dives into the history of wicker, their own artisanal practice, and beautiful homes across France featuring wicker in all its many forms."" — FREDERIC MAGAZINE  ""Their new book, The World of Atelier Vîme, a Renaissance of Wicker and Style (Flammarion), reveals the partners’ signature style in their homes across France—whose interiors have been restored by local craftsmen using regional materials and techniques. These provide a romantically textured backdrop for their curvy rattan and soulful rope designs, not to mention their extensive collections of ceramics, classical and modern paintings, and vintage textiles."" — YOLO JOURNAL  ""Benoît Rauzy and Anthony Watson founded their design studio, Atelier Vime, after discovering an abandoned wicker workshop in their 18th-century hôtel particulier in Vallabrègues, a Provençal village on the left bank of France’s Rhône river. They became fascinated with basket-making and wicker furniture, collecting antique designs by everyone from Adrien Audoux to Charlotte Perriand, offering them to customers along with their own decorative accessories, created with the designer Raphaëlle Hanley. Now their obsession and aesthetic are on display in a new book, “The World of Atelier Vime: A Renaissance of Wicker and Style.” The pages feature imagery largely shot by the couple themselves, with tours of their homes (including their latest acquisition, a Louis XV-era château in Normandy), a survey of their designs — from the woven Medici column vase to the fish scale-inspired E´cailles screen — accompanied by profiles of the artisans who forge them, and a look at the roots of wicker in Vallabrègues."" — NEW YORK TIMES (UK)