Valley & Laurel
PALECEK — a plaster-walled living room held together by a sculptural rope chair, tiered raffia chandelier and woven coffee table
House — PALECEK

Texture as the
first material.

A Northern California house working in cane, abaca, seagrass and rattan across more than three generations — fibres chosen for the way they hold light, soften architecture, and let a relaxed room exhale.

PALECEK

Founded in Northern California and carried on by the family for three generations. An enduring house built on hand-weaving, natural fibre and the unhurried pace of a coastal interior.

A pair of rope-strung rattan lounge chairs with ivory cushions and shibori-striped pillows, set on a soft grey rug beside a travertine drum table in a bright plaster-walled room
Inside the house

Softness, brought
into the architecture.

PALECEK works the way a coastal house does — in fibre, in shadow, in the give of a hand-woven chair. Pieces sit gently within a scheme; they soften architecture rather than compete with it.

Set against linen, plaster or limewash, the collection holds a room together in texture. Cane, abaca and seagrass introduce a quieter register — warmth without weight, presence without ornament.

It moves easily between a relaxed family interior and the stillness of a hospitality space — designed for layered, indoor-outdoor living rather than a single defining gesture.

The index — PALECEKPathways into the house — relaxed in tone, exact in specification.
  1. 01View the collectionsThe current digital catalogues — seating, lighting, outdoor, hospitality and the designer collaborations.
  2. 02Request finishes & materialsCane, abaca, rope and finish references prepared by the studio for project specification.
  3. 03Discuss bespoke capabilityCustom finishes, scale adjustments and COM upholstery across the collection.
  4. 04Visit the showroomTouch the weave and the wrap in the hand at Chelsea Wharf, by appointment.
A bedroom held by a tall oak bed with rope-woven headboard and footboard, set against limewashed plaster and a soft hill view
A bedroom, in woven oak
A flagstone terrace set with two open-lattice rope lounge chairs around a small cast-plaster side table, an olive sprig in a stone vessel
A terrace, easily kept
In the hand

Seagrass, reeded rattan
and woven cane.

Cerused white oak dining chairs with hand-woven open-lattice rope backs and ivory linen seats, set around a pale oak table beside a tall window opening to a soft hilltop view
Open-lattice rope, in cerused oak
A deep, hand-woven seagrass swivel chair with a soft ivory linen cushion, set beside floor-to-ceiling windows looking out to a hazy blue sky
Seagrass, by the window
A sculptural cast-stone console with a craggy, rock-hewn front in pale ivory, set against a panelled plaster wall beneath two textured framed artworks, dressed with anthurium and a fern in a footed vessel
Cast stone, hewn by hand
Materials & finishes

Cane, abaca, rattan and seagrass — renewable, hand-woven, and chosen for the way they age into a relaxed contemporary room.

Over eighty in-stock finishes and cloths sit alongside a fully supported COM programme — scale, weave and tone tuned to the architecture of a particular project.

01 · Natural fibre

Cane, abaca, rattan and seagrass — biodegradable, sustainably sourced, and chosen for tactile depth rather than visual statement.

02 · Hand process

Each weave is set by hand. Patterns vary slightly piece to piece — the small evidence of the maker is part of the language.

03 · Finish & cloth

A broad library of low-VOC finishes and upholstery cloths, with COM support, designed to sit naturally within layered residential and hospitality interiors.

A linen-upholstered swivel chair on a reeded rattan plinth, set against a plaster wall and woven jute pouf in warm afternoon light
In motion

Inside the
PALECEK house.

PALECEK · film
Two sculptural rattan-shell side chairs in profile against a panelled wall — one finished in deep walnut, the other left unfinished with long pale rattan strands trailing onto the floor
In the detail

Where the hand
leaves its mark.

Up close, the house reads as raw material — strands of rattan drawn over a hardwood shell, set by hand and left long before the finish is taken on.

Three generations of Northern California craftsmanship sit behind these details. The hand stays visible: small inflections in the weave that machines never fully resolve.

Specified across residential and hospitality projects, it is the close work — rope, cane, seagrass — that quietly carries the room.

A long hand-wrapped natural rope bench with an ivory linen cushion, set beneath a soft abstract canvas in a bright plaster-walled room with sheer linen curtains and a potted olive tree
In the project

Drawn into
each scheme.

Finish, scale, upholstery and weave can be adjusted across the collection — pieces drawn into the atmosphere of a particular room rather than dropped into it.

Valley & Laurel works alongside designers throughout — sample boards, cloth references, COM, finish selections, and project coordination. Quietly, and through the project.

View the catalogues · →
The Valley & Laurel showroom at Chelsea Wharf, layered with finish samples, upholstery and woven materials
An invitation

See PALECEK
in the showroom.

Experience the collection within the Valley & Laurel showroom at Chelsea Wharf — woven samples, cane and abaca in the hand, finish references and the atmosphere of the house in person.

Plan a visit →Request materials & finishes →

Showroom · Chelsea Wharf, London

Next

Continue
the conversation.

For specification support, finish references, showroom visits and project discussions.

A relaxed kind
of refinement.

PALECEK

London Showroom · Chelsea Wharf