Do you ever wonder how designers go from designing homes to products? If you’re at #LVMKT today join us & meet ZUO Decor Director Andrea Guardiola (@andy74la). Andrea Guardiola’s experience in home décor industry spans 20 + years with an admitted passion that started at an early age, growing into a devotion combined with a lifelong commitment. Opening her own furniture and home décor boutique in Argentina in 1994, with a contemporary aesthetic, she handled the sourcing, buying and visual merchandising in house. Over the next 2 decades Andrea’s sourcing and designing within the Home Décor & Lighting Industry she began marketing her exclusive designs to the retail market within Argentina & Latin America; before moving on to developing products for ecommerce sites, international brands and Top 100 retailers. Andrea paired her knowledge and experience to landed jobs in direct sales and product development for established brands: Three Hands, Sagebrook Home and Nova Lighting; before joining ZUO. Launching their Décor Division in July 2017, Andrea brings her debut collection of intensely unique designs and celebrates over 3000 + home decor products in just the first year on the marketplace. She lives in Northern CA with her husband and daughter when she is not traveling for ZUO. See the ZUO Décor Collection: zuomod.com/decor .

 

We’ll dive into Andrea’s past to discover how her career path brought her to become the amazing product design director of over 300 products on her first launch with @zuomod Mozy on over to building A, 4th Floor - showroom 410 and listen in. If you can’t be there and want us to ask Andrea a question for you, comment below.