Wicker Heywood-Wakefield
The most famous maker of wicker furniture in America was the Heywood-Wakefield Company. Cyrus Wakefield was the clever Boston grocer who realized that discarded rattan was suitable for furniture. Just before his death in 1873, he incorporated the Wakefield Rattan Company.
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