LostandFoundHandwrks

Kate launched Lost + Found Handworks in the winter of 2018, determined to help her design clients, friends, and family capture the elusive je ne sais quoi that they seemed to be longing for - not just for their home decor, but also in their daily lives.

One day, after six hours of sourcing furniture at a big box store for a client's living room, she came home, exhausted from "the hunt" to find something special - at stores that weren't all that special. As she watered her plants, each residing in funky found objects, discarded tins, or well-worn pots collected over decades - it hit her. The answer was so obvious.

Have you already figured it out? The thing that even high-end decor stores can't produce?

Well, it's that feeling you get when you hold something that has a past.
An object that has a story.
Something that was *lost* to someone, to an era...
...only to be found and given new life by someone else; some other generation.

Lost + Found Handworks is a small, woman-owned business rooted in the Hyattsville Arts District, devoted to bringing pieces with stories, and the makers and processes that gave them life, to homes all around the world.

We hope you'll join us in our effort to reduce our reliance on new goods & raw materials and salvage the beauty in our past by reclaiming the artifacts and arts of our history.

If you have old or found objects, from buttons to teacups to doorbells, and would like to see them live on - please let me know. I'm happy to take custom orders or donations of materials.