Lost Island
MARKET
Parks & Zoos
PRODUCTS
Bespoke
LOCATION
Waterloo, IA
Proof that thatch doesn’t have to whisper, sometimes it gets to shout in teal, purple, and sunburst orange. Lost Island took Endureed’s engineered thatch and ran wild with it, wrapping the entryway’s soaring A-frame peaks, the Whalebone Grill’s swooping wave-like canopy, and a whole midway of candy-colored kiosks in roofing that’s as durable as it is delightfully over-the-top. Turns out landlocked Iowa can have its own tropical island mythology, right down to the carved wooden whale rising out of a fountain and totem-topped entry gates that make you forget you’re nowhere near an ocean.
This is engineered thatch flexing its design range. Custom-dyed to hold rich turquoise and jewel tones under full Midwest sun (no easy feat, natural materials fade, this doesn’t