Recycling within design is more relevant than ever. The Lost and Found collection attempts to look beyond recycling and asks the question "what makes an object worth saving?". Is it purely sentiment that makes us hold onto things? The value we place on objects today has changed. Lost and Found endeavours to reintroduce this sense of value by using forgotten skills and forgotten objects to create new pieces, modern collectables from traditional sources.
‘The devil is in the detail’ Lost and Found is keen to emphasise the heritage of the materials used and the processes by which they are revived as well as celebrating the finished works themselves. The involvement of the client can be key; personal collectables are often incorporated into the work in order to bring a third dimension, a connection with the work, thus hopefully rendering it a desirable object of personal worth.
From source to salvage to studio to home, the whole process is a story Lost and Found thinks deserves to be told.
Inspired by the faded, distressed nature of the antique fabrics found, Lost and Found's diffusion range is a range of interior products hand printed on hemp cotton. Each piece is individually decorated with antique buttons or ribbons, a mixture of old and new, a fresh new product which winks at the past.
Photography by James Gardiner, Tom Harford Thompson and Kevin Dutton.
