ABOUT
Anne Greene is a New York–based artist specializing in hand-crafted heirloom furniture. For her, history serves as a muse and raw material: Taking ornamental precedent as a starting point, Greene transforms, iterates, and embellishes until the design arrives at a place that is at once familiar and unknowable.
Each of her designs is first imagined in miniature as a physical scale model, shaped by instinct and Greene’s own manipulation. This process intimately acquaints her with the materiality, proportions, and pairings of color and pattern that emerge as the soul of each piece. Once satisfied with the model, Greene faithfully reproduces it in full scale through hand fabrication.
Greene’s eye has been nurtured over a lifetime through her omnivorous aesthetic diet, her formal design training, hands-on experience at leading staging and design firms, and self-driven research. A deep respect for tradition, slow production, and artistry runs through her body of work—in the fabrication of pieces, which are made in New York; in the embroidered insignias, designed by Greene herself; and in the model-making process that singularly defines her approach.
PROCESS
For Anne Greene, every design begins as a scale model: a handmade miniature at one-twelfth scale or smaller.
Deploying everyday materials and rich, unexpected fabric samples sourced from Fabscrap, a textile recycling center Brooklyn, Greene approaches modelmaking as a form of three-dimensional sketching. The process is tactile and interactive—a negotiation with materiality and ornament, driven by intuition and real-time feedback.
Treating the scale model as her ultimate source of truth, Greene collaborates with local fabricators to realize the full-scale design, preserving color fidelity and proportions of frame and pattern as closely as possible. The hand embroidery that embellishes her diminutive works is mirrored on their larger counterparts, each one stitched by Greene herself. Every piece is made to order by craftsmen in New York City, and honors the spirit of its original.
Rejecting digital design and fabrication, Greene’s work stands for something entirely human, guided by gut, familiarity, and imagination.
