If you look around during your day sometime you're bound to see wicker furniture in all sorts of places. There's something about the weave and the natural look of wicker furniture that just adds a bit of style to any location, be it a room inside the house or outdoors on a patio or deck.

Hipness is a state of mind. Owning wicker furniture takes a certain state of mind. It's not for the posh conservative crowd. And they're decidedly not hip in most circumstances.

If you're really hip, you'll know the difference between bamboo and rattan furniture. The differences are subtle, but they're there to the carefully trained hipster eye.

Rattan furniture won't make you hip, but it can be an expression of your hipness. If you're on the same wavelength as me, that statement will make a lot of sense.

If you don't understand that statement, maybe wicker furniture is out of your league. Then again, the wonders of wicker never cease in breaking down barriers of the squares, the tragically un-hip.

To the artistic, wicker can be seen as a representation of reality, of life itself. With the twisting and turning of the vines, or the side by side uniformity of other designs, the materials being weaves in and out of itself like the moments and people we all experience in our life each and every day.

An interesting thing to note about the hipness of wicker furniture is its longevity. It's been around for a very, very long time and throughout the ages it's been a hip sort of furniture for bohemians and the nine-to-fivers as well. This long lasting quality is just another indicator, albeit a strong one.

Imagine if you will a coffee shop filled with plastic chairs and plastic tables and plastic tasting coffee. Now, imagine that same coffee shop or diner with wicker chairs and wicker tables and wicked tasting coffee. Now, the wicker furniture won't make the coffee taste better, but it adds to the overall atmosphere of the cafe, which can make even the worst coffee taste not so bad.

A hundred years from now, three thousand years from now, I imagine wicker furniture will still be hip. With such a long list of things going for it, such a crowd of people that like it, how could it not withstand a few more years of hipness?

There's a riddle here. But maybe you've guessed it by now. That's right. It's not the wicker that makes itself hip, it's those that observe and interact with it.