New Delhi, July 16 -- Cane furniture was around long before imported design trends started shaping urban living rooms. It sat on verandahs, filled up reading corners, and found its way into old Bombay bungalows well before Mumbai turned into the city of compact towers it is today. What's changed isn't the material itself but how homeowners are picking it up again, this time as a deliberate choice rather than something inherited from a grandparent's house.

This July, that rediscovery gets a proper push. Wooden Street has brought a new collection of woven cane furniture into its Mumbai stores, spanning chairs, headboards, room dividers and accent pieces built around hand-woven detailing rather than the flat uniformity of a machine finish....