By Hand

hen Lulu Lytle, founder of Soane Britain, took off on a road trip throughout England, she was in search of (Rizzoli, $65). Soane’s mirror frames, chairs, breakfast trays, barstools, drum tables, vases, and other objects are mainstay ingredients used by today’s leading interior designers. What begins as a vinous plant in Southeast Asian jungles, winds up, literally, in some of the most stylish and durable pieces of furniture one could have in a home. And because of Lytle, the weaving of the material is, once again, a flourishing industry. As the talented design writer and editor Mitchell Owens writes in the foreword, “Lulu Lytle not only knows rattan, she is putting it on a pedestal for the world to admire anew.”