Obsessed with Tiny Things? Foundrae Designer Beth Hutchens Has Some Advice.

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“I don’t know if it’s an inherited trait, but I come from a long line of collectors who were both inquisitive and acquisitive,” Beth Hutchens says. “Sometimes it can be a problem.” While family members have stockpiled carnival glassware, souvenir spoons, stamps, and arrowheads, Hutchens, whose primary trade is jewelry (she is behind cult label Foundrae), is a voracious collector of miniatures. She has hundreds of 1:12 scale gems in her inventory—an inch-tall bottle of wine filled with actual vino, a tiny tennis racket with nylon strings, hand-carved ivory binoculars the size of a thumbnail—with which she creates vignettes in various nooks (behind books, inside cabinets) around her homes and boutiques. “None of them are in dollhouses,” she says. “My whole point is that it’s a surprise. They’re in unexpected places, meant for discovery.” So the next time you’re at a Foundrae store, take a close look around.

This story appears in the February 2025 issue of Town & Country. SUBSCRIBE NOW

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