Pamela Anderson, best known for Baywatch, is moving into home design with her first furniture and objects collection, The Sentimentalist, created with Los Angeles design house Olive Ateliers. The line is made from natural materials, especially rattan, and includes more than 40 pieces for indoor and outdoor spaces.
Anderson said the collection was inspired by childhood memories of her grandmother’s farm on the Salish Sea in British Columbia, Canada. The key starting point was an armchair in her grandmother’s sunroom, which she says she used for years to read in and that became worn in a comforting way. The collection also uses full teak wood, durable fabrics, and soft shades such as classic ivory and sea blue stripes. Among the items are reading chairs, rounded rattan sofas, teak dining tables, woven baskets, lamps, and even a designer dog bed.
“I am always drawn to things that age and soften,” Anderson said, describing furniture that embraces you in the morning and grows more beautiful over time. The line is meant as a rejection of fast furniture, much like fast fashion, and is designed to be lived with, not just displayed. Kendall Knox, co-founder and chief brand officer of Olive Ateliers, said the collaboration grew out of their shared nostalgia, love of jazz, gardening, and objects with history, and called the collection a natural reflection of that feeling.
The collection is being sold online at oliveateliers.com and at Olive Ateliers’ flagship store in Los Angeles. Prices range from $75 to $3,495. The source article also notes that a separate gallery of products includes the featured sofa priced at $3,495.
