ABOUT

BUREAU BRAUN WAS FOUNDED IN MAY OF 2018, NAMED AFTER OUR FOUNDER’S LATE GRANDMOTHER, MARY JANE BRAUN.

MARY JANE (A.K.A. “NINI”) WAS A CREATIVE FORCE IN THE FAMILY AND EARLY LIFE OF OUR FOUNDER, BEN WATERS. SHE TAUGHT AND ENCOURAGED BEN TO KNIT, PAINT, DRAW, BUILD, AND, MOST IMPORTANTLY, FIND JOY IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS.

MOST OF ALL, SHE TOOK NO GREATER PLEASURE THAN IN SPREADING HER UNDENIABLE JOIE DE VIVRE.

IN KEEPING WITH NINI’S SPIRIT, WE, AT BUREAU BRAUN, BELIEVE THAT DESIGN SHOULD BE:

• CLEVER;

• WHIMSICAL;

• GRACIOUS;

• UNDERSTATED;

• AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, COURAGEOUS.

BUREAU BRAUN WAS BUILT ON THESE PRINCIPLES, AND WE STRIVE TO EVOKE ALL FIVE IN EVERY PROJECT THAT WE DO. WHILE NEVER AN EASY TASK, ASPIRING TO NINI’S SPIRIT IS THE CORNERSTONE OF OUR WORK.

TODAY AND ALWAYS, NINI’S MEMORY INSPIRES US TO CREATE SELFLESSLY, TO BUILD AUDACIOUSLY, AND TO LOVE UNCONDITIONALLY.