Kat Thayer is a Colorado-based artist, collector, fragrance designer, and founder of House of Thayer: a material-led lifestyle studio exploring repair, scent, interiors, textiles, and the emotional lives of the objects we keep close.

Raised in Central New York near Oneida Lake, her perspective was shaped by old farmhouses, roadside Americana, antique stores, lake-effect winters, practical domesticity, and generations of people who saved things because they had to. That early relationship to material life continues to inform her work today.

Her practice moves between fragrance development, vintage sourcing, illustration, wallpaper and textile design, furniture restoration, styling, and written essays exploring modern domestic life through the lens of history, sustainability, memory, and use.

Before founding House of Thayer, Kat spent over two decades building brands and retail environments rooted in atmosphere and sensory experience. Her background includes personal styling, antiques research, visual merchandising, fragrance development, and curatorial work across both retail and design spaces.

Today, House of Thayer functions less as a traditional design studio and more as an evolving study of collected living, where craftsmanship, material awareness, repair, storytelling, and intentional slowness remain central to the way objects are designed, sourced, restored, and lived with.