{"id":25514,"date":"2015-06-24T07:19:33","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T14:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/?p=25514"},"modified":"2015-06-22T12:16:57","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T19:16:57","slug":"fair-trade-basket-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/accessories\/fair-trade-basket-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Fair Trade Basket Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baskets aren&#8217;t usually the first thing you&#8217;ll find in a modern interior, but this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefutureperfect.com\/objects\/fair-trade-basket-collection.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">Fair Trade Basket Collection<\/a> possesses a sharp, sculptural quality that would do well whether used as objets d&#8217;art or as functional storage pieces. Made from palm wood, these baskets would normally warp over time, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pietheineek.nl\/\" target=\"_blank\" >Piet Hein Eek<\/a> chose to specify thin slats strung together to allow for shrinking and expansion.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Each piece was handcrafted in a Vietnamese family-owned workshop according to the Fair Trade principles. The wooden slabs are tightened with wire and knotted using a technique developed by the village\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fisherman.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fair Trade Basket Collection\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/images\/boxwood-basket-low.jpg?w=513&#038;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefutureperfect.com\/objects\/fair-trade-basket-collection.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">Fair Trade Large Low Basket<\/a>, $263.00 <\/p>\n<p>From our archives; originally posted Aug 26, 2013. <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baskets aren&#8217;t usually the first thing you&#8217;ll find in a modern interior, but this Fair Trade Basket Collection possesses a sharp, sculptural quality that would do well whether used as objets d&#8217;art or as functional storage pieces. Made from palm wood, these baskets would normally warp over time, but Piet Hein Eek chose to specify [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[120,213],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/images\/basket_hero-1.jpg?fit=513%2C377&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25514"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25514"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30929,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25514\/revisions\/30929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}