The House of Findings

The House of Findings sits at 5030 NE 2nd Avenue, Unit 404, in the stretch of Miami just north of the Design District often called Buena Vista, and it describes its own inventory as “a collection of collections”: vintage, global, upcycled, and handmade women’s clothing and accessories alongside similarly sourced home furnishings and art, spanning pieces from the 1890s through the 1990s. This isn’t a single curated decade or a single aesthetic; it’s closer to a working archive that gets added to constantly.

Mayra Gonzalez is the creative director and manager behind the shop, and her connection to this kind of retail goes back further than the current storefront. She opened the original Findings boutique in Miami Beach in 1989, running it through 1995, after years working as a buyer in New York’s Garment District. The concept came back in a different form starting in Boston in 2012, and the current Miami location, the one at this Buena Vista address, opened in 2018, alongside a sister shop in Chatham, Massachusetts on Cape Cod that operates under the same ownership.

What separates this shop from a typical vintage store is the sourcing: pieces are described as gathered from travels spanning Paris to Brazil and along the Eastern Seaboard, with a stated emphasis on supporting multicultural artisans and crafters rather than buying inventory wholesale from a single vintage distributor. The shop frames its own approach as “treasure hunting at its best,” and the range backs that up, spanning nearly a century of clothing alongside handmade and upcycled home pieces that don’t fit neatly into a single category. The shop also accepts PayPal and Venmo for anyone who prefers not to run a card for a smaller vintage find.

Before visiting, know that this is genuinely one-of-a-kind inventory rather than restocked basics, so a piece spotted on one visit may not be there on the next, which is part of the appeal for regular vintage shoppers but worth knowing if you’re hoping to come back for something specific. The shop can be reached directly by phone or email for questions about current stock, and the same team runs the Cape Cod location if you’re ever up that way. For anyone in the Design District and Buena Vista corridor looking for something that isn’t a luxury flagship store, this is one of the few spots in the immediate area built entirely around secondhand, handmade, and sourced goods rather than new retail.