Brian and Lauren founded Frances Mildred in 2012 after years of working together professionally.  During this time they developed a mutual respect for their complimentary backgrounds, and found they both inspired in the other a common desire to make things better.  Beyond building and beyond construction, there is an aspirational notion of "making" that forms the foundation for all of the work at Frances Mildred.  From the initial ideas formulated with our clients, through the materials and concepts we choose to employ, to detailed drawings we develop with the fabricators and contractors that execute the final construction, this notion of something made suffuses all of our conversations.  

At the core of every design we produce is the client.  Our ambition from the outset is to interpret and re-imagine the basic requirements and desires that our clients bring to the project.  Through an intensely collaborative process of design involving the expertise of the "makers" that will actually perform the work, these desires are transformed and made into a new and unique reality.  And we have an adamant belief that this new reality should be long-lived.  The considered way our projects wear, age, and patina is a deliberate part of the design process intended to create a natural and organic architecture.