More Stellar Stationery from Markham Bailey
BY ALICIA K. CLAVELL | PHOTO BY JEAN ALLSOPP

Keep all your invitations and wedding information organized and within arms reach in an elegant, personalized folder or box in the Marguerite line of "fine tools for organizing" from Markham Bailey LLC. Founder Anne Bailey, is a Birmingham entrepreneur, book artist and poet who says she has been dubbed "the Kate Spade of office products." The Marguerite line is acid-free, water resistant and makes beautiful use of the swirl pattern of DuPont Tyvek, which Anne says mimics Japanese paper in style, but is ruggedly durable.
     Anne grew up in her father's printing business, Southern Label Company. Anne remembers looking at her father's ink-stained fingers when she was a girl. "And that was after he scrubbed them!" she says. Anne helped grow his business into a flourishing national industry presence in flexo printing and converting. Her mother, a librarian at The Altamont School, shared her love of books, paper and words with Anne. After graduating from Barnard College at Columbia University in New York, Anne attended the M.F.A program in Book Arts at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. 
      Throughout her career in business, Anne has imagined new possibilities in niche markets, and in 2009, she saw an opportunity to meld the creative aspects of her interests and personality, through elegant design and proven manufacturing techniques. So she founded Markham Bailey LLC, housed in the Innovation Depot in Birmingham's Entrepreneurial District. Markham Bailey is set to launch two lines of products in May 2010 (Birmingham brides who want to order products prior to the May launch, may contact Anne or Ruby Begonia). Marguerite ™ is a line of fine organizational office product tools for women, being offered in several elegant colors and styles. On the second Markham Bailey product line, Percival™, Anne has teamed up with The G Brand's, Chad Martin (thegbrand.com). "Chad has designed a number of ornamental patterns, working with metal panels all the way to wall stencils. There is a strong synergy between our two companies," says Anne.

See more Markham Bailey products at markhambailey.com or call 205.907.7347 for more information.