Calaisio Baguette Basket

All Calaisio products are hand made by artisans, who reside and work in remote villages in the South Pacific. The vines they use to construct Calaisio items — called “vignes d’eau” or water-vines — only grow in remote mountain jungles and are very difficult to reach and challenging to harvest. However, once reaped, the vines grow back quickly, leaving no damage in their native forests. At a mere 3 millimeters in diameter — barely one-fourth as thick as typical rattan — the water-vine takes 1-7 days to hand-weave into a finished design but yields a substantially more durable, heat-resistant and elegant product.

Included with each design is a statement of authenticity attesting to the time it took to create, signed personally by the artisans who created it.