Photo by Vitali Gelwich
UNRETURNED is a Los Angeles gallery for collectible furniture, design and culture, bringing together thoughtfully sourced objects, stories, film and sound. Not defined by a period or a single discipline, it is a place for things with a past and the culture that surrounds them.
We are Branislav and Monika.
We both left home young. Branislav is an artist and filmmaker. I spent most of my life traveling the world as a model. For years we kept moving. Countries changed. Cities changed. So did we. Looking back, maybe that’s why we became collectors. Not because we were searching for beautiful things, but because we were searching for something familiar. A chair worn by decades of use. A lamp that lit another family’s evenings. A record someone loved before we did. Objects that carried traces of the people who came before us. Sometimes I think objects remember. The people. The places. The passage of time. Out of that search came Unreturned. Italian design, espresso and analog sound became the language of that feeling. This is our way of sharing it.
