Pamela Anderson releases rattan furniture line informed by seaside childhood

Canadian-American actor Pamela Anderson and Los Angeles furniture company Olive Ateliers have collaborated on a 40-piece furniture collection designed to be "a little French, a little wild".

The Sentimentalist collection includes outdoor sofas, lounge chairs, tables and baskets primarily made of natural rattan and blue and white-striped upholstery, all informed by Anderson's memories of "her grandmother's farm along the Salish Sea".

"This collection feels like home to me," said Anderson, who lives on her own coastal property on Vancouver Island in Canada. "It's unpretentious, a little French, a little wild. It's meant to be used, worn in, and lived with."

"I grew up by the sea. I remember our tiny cabin on the dock, the wood turned silver from years of salt and weather. I've always been drawn to things that age and soften; furniture that holds you at dawn, that grows more beautiful the more you live with it."

The collection features classic silhouettes, with barrel-shaped backrests on the lounge furniture, and straight backrests with a woven diamond in the centre on dining chairs.

It also contains a weathered teak dining table. Like the rattan, the teak was chosen to weather and patina over time, in keeping with Anderson's nostalgic design brief.

The collection is the first outside collaboration for Olive Ateliers, a furniture design studio and workshop based in Los Angeles, which was founded in 2021 by entrepreneurs Kendall Knox, Ben Knox, and Laura Sotelo.

"When we chose to embark on our first-ever design collaboration, it had to be with someone we truly admired, someone whose presence has remained timeless by staying entirely authentic," said Kendall Knox.

"Pamela and I are both innately nostalgic. We've connected over the rituals that shape our days: jazz, time in the garden, and a deep appreciation for objects with history. The Sentimentalist feels like the most natural reflection of that shared sensibility".

The collection also includes 100 per cent olefin furniture covers to protect the pieces from the outdoor elements.

The project is another in a slowly growing trend of celebrities dipping their toes into furniture and object design. Most recently, American musician A$AP Rocky and his design studio Hommemade furnished a Paul Rudolph guesthouse and British musician Robbie Williams created a chair with Dutch furniture brand Moooi.

The photography is by Michael PH Clifford unless otherwise stated

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