Laundry is one of those things that never fully goes away, and the basket you keep it in is on show more than you’d probably like. Most people end up with something plastic and functional that makes the bedroom feel like a utility room. We’ve been looking specifically at natural material baskets because they do something useful and look good doing it. Seagrass, rattan, woven water hyacinth. These are materials that actually improve a room rather than apologise for existing in it. What we paid attention to is structure, because a basket that collapses under a week’s worth of washing is not solving anything, and size, because underestimating capacity is a very easy mistake. We also looked at whether they work as single statement pieces or in pairs for sorting lights from darks, which more people do than admit to. The ones here are worth putting somewhere visible.