


"It was like letting the genie out of a bottle for us. The four-story gallery showcases all the work they've done for the Potter films and acts almost like an unofficial museum of Potter memorabilia. Inside it's almost like you've stepped onto the set, there is floating candles and Hogwarts letters hung from the ceiling and even wizarding themed exit signs. In their spare time, in between thinking of the next cool things to be featured in the Fantastic Beasts upcoming movies, they operate their new gallery House of MinaLima, in Soho, London. The pair then formed their studio, MinaLima, in 2009, and continued on as the prop designers and graphic designers for all the Harry Potter films, as well as the Fantastic Beasts movies to come.

"It was a symbiotic moment of realizing we had the same aesthetic, the same sense of humor and approach to design." "We’ve been together since then," Mina told The Guardian. Related: Here's What The Child Actors In Harry Potter Had To Go Through When they soon started to work together they realized that they were more alike than they thought which made working together easy and helped them form their own aesthetic. Then during the filming of Chamber of Secrets, after Lima had moved to London after graduating from Brazil’s Pontifical Catholic University, he was told to contact Lima to see if she could get him work. Martin's and the production designer she worked for was hired to do Harry Potter, reports The Guardian. Mina Lima, a combination of the designers names Miraphora Mina and Eduardo Lima, started twenty years ago when Mina had just graduated with a Theatre Design degree from Central St.
