Pamela Anderson is entering a new phase in her life. With upcoming roles in Rosebush Pruning alongside Elle Fanning, Callum Turner, Kristen Stewart and Riley Keough, her focus is firmly on projects that are collaborative and creatively fulfilling. But away from the screen, it’s her life at home that reveals the clearest shift. Anderson’s life has become increasingly rooted in her home on Vancouver Island, where gardening plays a central role. In interviews and her own writing, she frequently returns to the idea of nature as grounding. “I like to garden. I like to cook. I like to be at home,” she told Better Homes & Gardens, describing a rhythm that prioritises simplicity.
That shift is also tied to a broader sense of autonomy. Speaking to Vogue, she framed this period as one of personal clarity: “I feel like I’m exactly where I need to be,” she said, aligning her creative choices with a slower way of living.
“I’m really happy that people are responding to it,” Anderson tells AD. “[But] I’ve been doing this all along. It’s funny to see that people are really eating it up and loving it and encouraging me to do more.” For her latest endeavour, she teamed up with LA-based retailer Olive Ateliers to create a furniture and decor collection, the name of which reflects Anderson’s entire ethos perfectly: The Sentimentalist.
Launching on April 8, the 40-plus-piece collection draws directly from Pamela Anderson’s personal archive — a lived-in aesthetic shaped over decades at Arcady, her home in Ladysmith, Vancouver. The restored family property, originally owned by her grandparents, becomes the project’s emotional and material anchor, informing everything from rattan seating to a teak dining table and handwoven baskets. The references are specific but layered: flea market finds, French influences and a deep attachment to inherited objects.
The starting point for the collection was deeply personal, rooted in objects accumulated over time rather than designed from scratch. “We started the collaboration by really looking at my home and looking at all these incredible wicker pieces that I’ve kept and carried around with me or things that my grandmother left behind,” says Pamela Anderson. “I just have such a soft spot [for these things]—and so many memories.”
Pamela Anderson shows her knack for shabby-chic, French interiors, pottery from the 1930s and 1940s and devotion to fresh roses in an archival episode of MTV Cribs, from the early 2000s about her Malibu home in LA.
That sense of continuity extends into how the pieces are intended to be lived with. Rather than statement design, the collection aligns with a slower, more tactile rhythm shaped by routine and time spent outdoors. “I walk every morning, in rain, snow, sleet, hail. I’m walking at the first light. If I’m in New York, I’m in Central Park. If I’m in LA, I’m walking Pepperdine up in Malibu or on the beach. It’s really important for me to be outside,” she says.
At home in Vancouver, that connection to nature becomes even more literal. Mornings are spent outdoors, moving through the landscape with a sense of ritual and care. “Right now I have thousands of daffodils, and they really remind me of [my grandmother],” says Pamela Anderson. “In the morning I go and pick up all the daffodils that are broken off and I put them in this big basket. That’s very reminiscent of my grandmother not wasting anything, giving things second chances. I always think it’s like a second chance at love that can come inside.”
For Olive Ateliers cofounders Kendall Knox and Laura Sotelo, that sensibility defined the collaboration from the outset. Rather than creating objects for display, the focus remained on how they would be used and lived with over time. “She wasn’t interested in anything overly designed or precious. It was always about how something would live: a chair you return to each morning, a sofa that holds you, a warmth, a softness, and a romance in every design,” says Knox.
Working with rattan, a material that naturally patinates over time was an intuitive choice. Its character evolves with use, reflecting the collection’s emphasis on longevity and lived experience. “Rattan carries a kind of honesty, like Pamela really,“ says Sotelo. ”It’s lightweight but strong, refined but never formal. It softens a space instantly and crosses thresholds seamlessly.” More than a material decision, it becomes a reflection of the person behind it; unpolished, enduring and unmistakably Pamela.
