Small vintage wicker trinket box

"I love wicker and collect it — I use it for storing jewelry, medicine and so much more," Patricia Wells says of the pieces she has gathered over the years from Parisian brocantes and markets. This small lidded wicker box is one such find, picked up at a brocante in Paris and kept in the Wells apartment there. Woven from rattan in a flat, open weave across both the body and the fitted lid, the box has a tighter, more structured border framing each surface. The cane has deepened to warm honey and amber tones with age, and a small twisted loop at the centre of the lid serves as the handle. Compact enough to sit on a bedside table, bathroom shelf or dressing table, this is the sort of object that organises daily life without making a fuss about it. Use it as Patricia does — for jewellery, small medicines, hair pins or anything that tends to scatter — or let it sit as a considered piece of texture and craft in a room that values the handmade.