Designers and Artists

What Mimi did next

In 1970 Mimi and her sister Snoo founded the clothing company Van Der Fransen, a fashion company known for its mix of printed dresses and vintage crepe fabrics. The sucess of Van Der Fransen and her love for vintage fabrics Mimi recently diversified from fashion into interiors. Her latest project and exclusive to Green and Fay is  Bergere suite upholstered in a diverse selection of designed french 1950's/1970's hand worked tapestries

See the collection at our store in Islington along with Roy's classic kitchens and eclectic pieces of mid century furniture.

Helen was born in Farnborough, Kent in 1977. After completing a Foundation Diploma in Art and Design at Camberwell College of Arts, Helen went on to study Fine Art with English Literature at Canterbury Christ Church University College, graduating with a 1^st class honours degree. Helen currently lives and works in Brockley, south east London and her work is held in private collections throughout the UK.

The act of painting does at once enable both an absorbed state of inwardly meditation and an extroverted expression. Landscape is used as a vehicle to explore my own inner light and the colours, elements and light of nature. I am inspired by walking in the wilder places - remote islands, mountain peaks, windswept moors and rugged coastlines – and by daily observation of the changing seasons and the dance of the sky.

The works are a slow accretion of translucent and semi transparent layers of muted, earthy colours and gently hued greys, utilising a combination of painterly media that is applied and scraped back many times over during the process. The horizon line or the places where elements meet are recurring structural motifs with an internal tendency towards the abstract. Somehow through abstraction one can achieve a greater vitality and evocation of nature than can be reached through representation. The work is completed when it comes to a point of stillness.

Edward Robinson, British designer, was born in 1986 in Nottinghamshire. Studying Furniture and Product Design at Northumbria University he graduated in 2009 and began his career by setting up a studio in his home. Robinson exhibited his SSB lounge chair, spun stool and spun vase at 'New Designers' in 2009 where he met Thorsten Van Elten who put his very first product, 'Spun Stool', into production. In 2010 he was featured in The Wallpaper Graduate Directory and went on to produce the Ikebana Vase for Petite Friture. He also showed several new products at 100% design 2010 at London Earls Court Including the Bramcote shelf and Harbour Chair.

Assembled with a palette of coloured laminate and wood, clare makes hand constructed, one off and limited edition wall pieces. Work is tailored to the small and intimate, or scaled up to produce striking architectural installations. Influences as far-flung as the layered appliqué molas of the kuna indians and the inter-cut shyrdak rugs of central asia inspire her creative practice. motivated by a degree in anthropology, she draws on art and design from diverse societies.

Clare has developed a language using laminates and plywood, transforming the materials into an unusual and eloquent vehicle for colour and line.

Referencing the techniques of wood and textile traditions, this work employs both hand crafted and cutting-edge technologies. Clare explores the creative potential of new cnc technologies, benefiting from a precision and intricacy impossible by hand. 

The desert beaches of southern coast of São Paulo, Brazil, are places of inspiration for environmentally-sensitive architect and designer Carlos Motta. In the 1970’s he spent a lot of time at the beaches, collecting driftwood carried in on the tide.

Today, in his office, in Vila Madalena, São Paulo, Motta developes and produces furniture, sculpture, and architectural products all from recycled wood. Using driftwood, recycled wood from demolitions, pieces found in shores and rivers, as well as material certified by FSO, decreases the environmental footprint of his work.

'maigrau' is a new design brand established 2007 by the designers Alex Stamminger and Nik Back. Since then the young label is occupied with designing products from the range of furniture, living accessories and lights. Beside the designing of products 'maigrau' lets manufacture the own drafts of producing enterprises in Germany.

Products of 'maigrau' are innovative and sustainable.They speak a clear language which results from the logic of the function and the material. The soul of the products is embodied by the ease of the shape and the high quality of the used materials.