What’s KEPT?
KEPT stands for Knitting Ecological Practices Together [A mouthful …YES we know, so we lovingly also call it KEPT ]
A project for collaboration
Using her art practice as a foundation, KESIENA founded + co-created KEPT studio with the many faceless and nameless makers who create the found, foraged and reclaimed materials from which her art + objects are re-worked. KEPT’s ultimate collaboration is connecting the dots between our relationships with materials and Earth’s abundant environment, with emphasis on valuing the natural world.
This multidisciplinary studio focuses holistically on creating and cultivating limited edition design objects made exclusively from vintage, recycled, and regenerative materials. KEPT offers goods + services through sourcing vintage, thoughtfully curating handmade artistic items and offering up an intentional and inventive approach to material culture studies.
KEPT studio collaborations are offered in numbered editions and are proudly produced in New York City.
Curiosities Refreshed and remixed objects are updated for modern life. This contemporary Cabinet of Curiosities is full of one-off explorations, which may become limited editions in the future. Our team is ever exploring and always experimenting, so these mix of items are the results from our R&D lab instantly available for purchase.
OUR VALUES
We focus holistically on limited edition interior pieces and specialty items made exclusively from vintage, recycled and natural materials of the best quality. Due to the nature of using recycled products to create these items, KEPT is offered in numbered editions and is proudly produced in New York City.
As responsible makers we want to promote the beauty in the already existing. We rethink traditional methods and materials by re-envisioning them in a new way, for the everyday. Due to the handcrafted nature of the materials used by KEPT, irregularities are appreciated for their individual quality, enhancing the uniqueness of the objects, which is an integral part of the brand.
We are based in New York, but the city’s global community inspires us to search the globe creating and seeking the most unique things:
Vintage We love connecting with like-minded individuals who love vintage and antiques. There’s something karmic about vintage. Finding a rare object that seems meant for you, but from another time. That’s why Kept thoroughly researches to curate rare one-of-a kind finds.
