About
I spent 20 years in marketing.
Then I used it to build Studio 790.
I'm Ann Lopez — Miami-based interior designer, speaker, business coach, and founder of Studio 790. No design degree. No MBA. I left a two-decade corporate career in luxury hospitality marketing and built a multi seven-figure firm from my dining room table over the past 8 years. The portfolio amplification system is the marketing playbook I ran on my own projects, and now my team runs it for you.
20 yrs
Marketing at W Hotels, St. Regis and beyond
80%
Revenue growth in the past year, profitably
$350k+
Given back to schools, charities and community
Studio 790 projects — every one launched with this system
The story
Chicago kid. Hotel marketer. Accidental design firm CEO.
I grew up in Chicago and spent 20 years marketing luxury hospitality brands — W Hotels, St. Regis and more. I learned how a single image becomes a campaign, how a story gets picked up, and how to make a brand look bigger than its budget.
When I walked away and started Studio 790, I didn't have credentials. I had a marketing brain and a dining room table. That combination turned into one of the fastest-growing women-owned design firms in the country — named to the Inc. 5000, featured in HGTV Magazine four times (including a cover and a 4-page spread), named to AD PRO's "Miami Interior Design Firms to Watch," accepted as an Architectural Digest PRO member, and spotlighted by Pinterest's national Success Stories. All of it came from the same portfolio amplification playbook we now run for you.
In the past year alone we grew revenue 80% while staying profitable, set records for client retention, and landed our largest commercial and hospitality work to date — including an international airport lounge with Luxaviation.
None of that came from posting a reel and hoping. It came from treating every finished project like a launch. That's the system we now run for other designers.
Recognition
The receipts behind the playbook.
- 2024
- Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Companies in America
- 2025
- Inc. Best in Business — Business Leader of the Year
- 2025
- Inc. Best in Business — Social Media & Marketing
- 2025
- AD PRO “Miami Interior Design Firms to Watch”
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- Architectural Digest PRO member
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- HGTV Magazine — 4 features, including a cover and a 4-page spread
- 6 yrs
- Houzz — Best of Service and Best of Design, six years in a row
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- Women Presidents Organization — top 2% of women-led firms
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- Wayfair Professional Tastemaker
Off the clock
Creativity is ministry.
I speak at BDNY, CREW Miami, Vous Church, the Kingdom Assignment Conference and women's leadership events — tough-love truth, business clarity, faith and big-dream energy for women who want purpose-driven businesses that don't burn them out.
My firm has given more than $350,000 and 200+ volunteer hours to local schools, charities and community projects, including building homes in Guatemala with Techo.
My leadership style is bold, honest and rooted in a redemption story. Twice divorced. Four miscarriages. Reinvented at 40. Now building the life I always imagined — with God at the center, my husband Roberto beside me, and my daughter Zoey watching me redefine what's possible. This year I also became Coach Ann, JV volleyball coach at St. Rose. Leading 5th and 6th graders takes the same playbook as running a multimillion-dollar firm: vision, energy and a whole lot of grace.
Through my personal brand, Ann Lopez Living, I help women design not just beautiful spaces but beautiful, aligned lives.
Your turn
I built this for my firm.
Now let's run it for yours.
Send us your project photos. We do the work, you do nothing, and you get a recap of everything once it's live.