Just getting started - The story behind the beautiful, maximalist, abstract designs of Vivian FerneTM and its founder, Frances Maass.
Creativity and production happens inside the Columbus, Ohio industrial nook office space, wedged between the Short North and Italian Village. Frances Maass and the team at Vivian FerneTM continue to make a splash in the interior design world. In just three short years this abstract wallpaper design shop has grown considerably. The development of Vivian FerneTM has been fast, but the style of founder, owner and principal artist, Frances Maass has been years in the making.
Fran has a passion to embrace creative projects by first developing an understanding and then moving to the mastery of new abstract styles and mediums. After returning to Columbus from her artistic studies at Arizona State University, she began honing in on a style uniquely her own with the highly customized abstract paintings created under her BlueBerry GlitterTM brand. Several years and hundreds of designs later, Fran arrived at a creative turning point in her career; to take the vast comprehension of abstract design and color outside the boundaries of the canvas and onto the scale of wallpaper and murals. This leap was not without hurdles, and again, Fran was ready for the challenge of starting a new business.
Vivian FerneTM, a woman owned business - lovingly named after Fran’s daughter in the summer of 2019 - would come to life with a wave of lush, bold, unmistakable color combinations. The imaginative yet refined designs and shapes would begin to circulate ecommerce platforms one after another. Fran, having completed a catalog of over 85 designs at a feverish pace, strategically displays her brand to tens of thousands of followers with new staging styles, customer installations and fresh design drops almost weekly.
While the brand and its wallpapers continue to grow and evolve, the details are still personal. Each design is hand crafted and painstakingly completed to ensure the highest caliber artwork leaves the doors. Once completed the designs are hand cut and packaged and then sent on their journey with a handwritten “thank you” for every customer. With the marketplace heavily saturated with churn and burn design styles and trends the team at Vivian Ferne ensures that each customer feels a personal connection to the designs and the people that get them out the door.
The designs are big, ambitious and magnificent. Gripping the viewer with an oasis of tonality, texture and style. Whether approaching residential or commercial spaces, the wallpaper murals transcend the conventional approach to interior design. From living rooms to nurseries, salons to restaurants these designs provide awe inspiring and captivating installations for the clientele. The doors to
Vivian FerneTM’s new creative studio will officially open with an Open House in November, 2022. The Vivian FerneTM team manages the general operations, plans new shoots and concepts while two state-of-the-art printers churn through hundreds of feet of wallpaper daily.
Just like the designs, there is never a dull moment behind the scenes of Vivian FerneTM. Excitement and discussion around new design concepts, brand ventures and custom wallpaper layouts never ceases. In the midst of it all the Vivian FerneTM team finds a lot of room for laughter. This small team is a family continuously striving to push the boundaries of what women owned businesses can achieve in the world of wallpaper. Fran and the team invite you to join us at one of many Open House events in the works for the coming months. Please visit our website and follow us on Instagram for updates!
Website: www.vivianferne.comInstagram: @Vivianferne
All Inquiries: sales@vivianferne.com
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Original Artwork: www.blueberryglitter.com
Frances Maass: Founder, Artist, President
Our Vision:
Vivian FerneTM is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of abstract art and its place in the world of wallpaper / interior design. In this pursuit, we proudly aim to continue redefining the heights that female owned businesses can achieve. Our business is small, but our goals couldn't be bigger for bringing this genre defining interior design shop to its full potential!
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