The most compelling objects are those where material and ornament are inseparable.

I am a ceramicist and lifelong collector with an eye calibrated to objects where something real happened — where the making and the meaning are the same gesture.

All That Was Vintage is that eye, focused. I source from estate auctions throughout the US, European flea markets, and private collections — Barcelona earlier this year, Paris this October, Clignancourt and Vanves and wherever else the day takes me.

Guided by a single instinct: the pieces I keep going back to. I buy things I would keep. That's the only filter that matters.

Melissa Harris

Based in Bayport, New York