About A Lost Art

Originally founded in 1999, A Lost Art is a direct importer, distributor and wholesaler of high-quality hand made sculptures, wooden toys, musical instruments and handicrafts from Southeast Asia. Owner David Meller was inspired by his passion for travel along with a love of animals and nature to create a sustainable and eco-friendly company with the goal of empowering the talented local artisans he met during his journeys. After many trips to Ecuador, India, Panama and Vietnam and over 100 trips to Thailand and Indonesia, David’s established personal relationships and unbreakable bonds with both artisans and their families. Over the past 24 years, A Lost Art has been able to help stimulate the local village economies especially throughout Bali and Thailand, creating local jobs and increasing artisans’ reach to larger markets, and in turn allowing these villages to thrive. Each and every individual hand-carved sculpture is personally picked out by David himself. Working directly with our artists helps us to maintain the highest quality of craftsmanship. In addition, all of our products are created from eco-friendly and sustainably sourced materials, created in safe work environments, and are Fairly traded. Our goal is empowerment and sustainability and your purchase of our handicrafts will help insure we can continue to contribute to the financial independence that our artists and artisan partners are striving for.Read their story