Emma Vans Agnew – Design Director

Emma Vans Agnew is the co-founder of Fabricsandpapers.com and is responsible for product selection and overall management of the business.

She has over 20 years experience in interior design. Her career began with the leading design company Colefax and Fowler where she worked on many prestigious projects including the refurbishment of Althorp House , the family home of the late Diana Princess of Wales and Charlie Chaplin’s lakeside home near Montreux in Switzerland.

After taking time out of the industry to have three children she continued her career with the designers Grubb and Kinahan who specialised in London houses and design work for historic country house hotels and conference centres such as Brocket Hall.

Emma is a regular media commentator on interior design topics.

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Iva Sims – Office Manager

Iva is the office manager at Fabricsandpapers.com and is responsible for liaising with Fabricsandpapers.com suppliers and supervising the processing of all customer orders. She runs our Designers Club for trade clients.

Having completed a degree course in Dressmaking and Design she moved to the UK from Czech Republic in 1993. Prior to joining Fabricsandpapers she worked for Texlen in Czech and The Cloth Store in the UK.

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Daisy Meanock - Office Assistant

Daisy processes all the cutting requests at Fabricsandpapers.com and manages customer enquiries. Prior to joining Fabricsandpapers.com she worked for Therapy Boutique in Sussex.
Daisy is a keen horsewoman and still finds time to train young horses in her spare time.

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Mark  Knight - Marketing Director

Mark  has been a PR and marketing  practitioner for over 30 years. He is a former head of PR at the Financial Times and is now a director of Broadgate PR where he advises some of the countries largest financial institutions. During his career he has also worked for some leading home as and interiors manufacturers, including Pergo flooring, which he claims makes a welcome change from his traditional work in the financial markets. 

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Debbie von Bergen - Financial Controller

Having graduated from Nottingham university with a degree in industrial Economics Debbie completed her training as a Chartered Accountant at KPMG in London.

On leaving KPMG to have children she chaired a national chairty and has continued her voluntary work with a number of local charities including being a governor of local schools, fundraising with a major local charity and the pony club!

She joined fabricsandpapers in 2007 abnd is a vital member of the team.

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Joy Redman - Curtain maker

Joy has been running her soft furnishing company for over 20 years.  Her clients include 5* hotels, restaurants as well as many private clients.   We have been using her team to make all our soft furnishings for over 10 years, whether it be for our interior design clients or online customers.

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