The Unlost Aurum Collection 2026 traces how memory survives displacement. How value moves through bodies, water, and fields long after place is renamed or erased. Aurum here is not ornament but inheritance: gold as condensed time, as the charge carried through matter. Each piece is an instrument for remembering. Objects that hold, reflect, and conduct what was never truly lost.
The Torus Floor Lamp gives form to the human electromagnetic field, illuminating the aura as a living architecture that surrounds and protects us. The Ira Chair reinterprets the Eye of Horus, a seat of sight and restoration, where perception itself becomes structural. St. Aubyn, the Lost Parish draws from the Jamaican legend of the golden table and River Mumma, honoring water as guardian of ancestral wealth and hidden continuities. The mirror, inscribed with Toni Morrison’s meditation on water’s perfect memory, asks us to consider the face as a place, a surface where histories return and emancipation is practiced through recognition. Together, these works propose furniture as vessels of return: objects that remember for us, carry what was scattered, and restore value to what endures.
“When you walk through your front door, how does your home make you feel? Do you seek the gentle familiarity of your special chair, your favorite vintage wine glass, or the one-of-a-kind blanket passed down from your great-grandmother? These treasured belongings offer comfort and evoke a sense of belonging. As we form connections with these objects, they become deeply meaningful—no longer just products, but the very fabric of our sense of home. Would a home feel as alive without the objects that fill its spaces?”
-Mayori Hipps, Stylist & Photographer
“All water has perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.” - Toni Morrison
If we should think of our faces as places of perfect
memory how differently would we think of ourselves and how would we honour this inheritance? This emanation.
At this point in time I find I am concerned with the sense of self that allows for freedom to exist. I have approached this curiosity through the use of mirrors and their position as spiritual technology. I am committed to seek and co-create living symbols, such as masks and mirrors, that aid in the navigation of psycho-political and cultural disorientations.
-Suzanna Missenberger, designer of mirror.
Displayed at Casa Ya Mwezi Functional Art Exhibition
for Atlanta Design Festival 2025