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. Levi Heywood founded Heywood Brothers in 1861. His firm was the largest chair manufacturer […]