A Mexican studio. Headquarters in Los Cabos, offices in Mexico City and Playa del Carmen, and the capacity to develop projects anywhere in the world.
Managing Director
Fifteen years in hospitality, most of them on sites where the operator was already in the room. She lives in Los Cabos and is on site and at the mock-ups herself.
Onoa Interior Design, Los Cabos
Sofia Aspe Interiorismo, Mexico City
Beachfront casitas at Four Seasons Costa Palmas. Thompson Hotel and Residences, Puerto Vallarta. SLS Residences, Cancun.
Bernardi + Peschard arquitectura, Mexico City
Montage Los Cabos, an ultra luxury resort on the tourist corridor.
Centro de Diseno, Cine y Television
Followed by a diploma in Art History at the same school.
Interior Architect
Architect from UNAM with a specialisation in architectural lighting design. She takes the concept and turns it into instructions a site can actually build: construction detailing, millwork, and the drawing set that holds it all together.
Before Onoa she worked at Chain + Siman and Sordo Madaleno in Mexico City, and spent three years inside a resort in operation at Grupo Vidanta, first on signage and wayfinding and then managing interior design.
We design spaces that hold their balance between how they look, how they work, and where they are.
Baja California gives us most of our vocabulary. Cactus and coastal rock, the way the sea moves, light that arrives filtered. And the craft: the lathe, the molcajete, clay, stone cut by hand.
We use that language without quoting it literally. A place should feel like it belongs where it stands, not like a souvenir of it.
Onoa is an independent Mexican company, part of Kanoa Group and sister company of 
. Between the two we can take a project from the first sketch to the last piece installed, without it changing hands halfway.
The showroom
And Gala, who has firm opinions about where the samples belong.
Studio dog
She has been here longer than some of the projects. If you come by for a coffee, she will introduce herself before anyone else does.