A former shop worker in the fashion industry, Kim Ahn Le Thi was always attracted to the popular wicker sun mirrors regularly seen in the pages of interior decoration magazines. This interest in wicker led her to teach herself basketweaving; later she decided to attend the only basketry school in France, the Ecole Nationale d'Osiériculture et de Vannerie de Fayl Billot, in Haute Marne. She opened her own workshop in June 2018. Kim is very interested in how wicker can be combined to other materials such as leather and ceramics to make functional or non-functional items. "Basketry has an undeniable power of nostalgia. We have all kept a basket of our grandmother's, and often customers tell me about a father or a grandfather who wove by the fire,” she says.
Kim Anh Le Thi