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In a design landscape that often favors the pristine, Pamela Anderson is making a case for something a little more undone. “I am obsessed with wicker,” she says. Not the perfectly preserved kind, but pieces that are used hard and often—dragged outside, worn in, and folded into everyday rituals. “It’s meant to be lived with.”
That ethos anchors The Sentimentalist, a 40-plus-piece indoor-outdoor collection in collaboration with L.A.-based lifestyle brand Olive Ateliers that leans heavily on rattan, teak, and performance fabrics. The pieces are meant to soften, silver, and settle into your life over time, much like the environments that shaped Anderson herself.
“I grew up by the sea,” she says. “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.” That sensibility traces back to her grandmother’s farm in Ladysmith, British Columbia, along the Salish Sea—a place Anderson still owns and has been slowly restoring. The property, once an auto court of cabins along the water, remains a kind of emotional blueprint for the collection. “She had a bit of a wild taste,” Anderson recalls of her grandmother, describing coral geraniums and climbing quince roses that still frame the buildings. “I’ve been living my own dream for decades.”
If that dream has a through line, it’s this: nothing should feel too precious. Even the most romantic pieces in the collection—curved rattan armchairs, woven coffee tables, generously sized loungers—are designed to be used, not admired from afar. Or, as Olive Ateliers cofounder Kendall Knox puts it, “It was always about how something would live [like] a chair you return to each morning.”
That idea of “how something lives” became a guiding principle throughout the brand’s first-ever collaboration. Knox describes Anderson as deeply attuned to ritual, where she drinks her coffee, how she reads, or where objects land at the end of the day. “Every decision returns to that rhythm,” she says.
And it shows. There’s a looseness to the collection that feels intentional: pieces that move easily from sunroom to garden, from porch to living room, from morning tea to late-night wine. Laura Sotelo, Olive Ateliers’ cofounder, describes her ideal day with the furniture as “a slow one…a chair you settle into with bare feet, a table that gathers lunch, flowers, candles, and the people you love by evening.”
Still, if there’s a hero material, it’s wicker.
For Anderson, wicker isn’t just aesthetic; it’s autobiographical. She speaks about it the way some people talk about heirloom jewelry or an old car. “My wicker has been through it,” she says. “I’m excited to read and lounge on wicker that isn’t falling apart. I’m ready to live on new pieces and build my own memories.”
Even the inclusion of a dog bed (Anderson has three labs) feels less like a product add-on and more like a continuation of the same philosophy: everything in the home should be used, loved, and slightly undone. Or, put more simply, it makes a strong case for dragging your wicker chair outside and staying there a while.
