Interior Designer - Creative
Ana Elia is a creative Interior Designer who graduated with honors from the University of Guanajuato in Mexico and started her career in the furniture design industry. She worked with prestigious international brands holding some key accounts in the city of Puebla and in the capital Mexico City.
Driven by great ambition and a willingness of expanding her horizons, Ana demonstrated a particular interest in global and international design, with an emphasis on sustainable solutions and innovative products. She took part in the international competitions and Design Thinking challenges organized by the Council for International Accreditation of Architecture & Design after participating as a student in the conferences offered at her university by CIAAD, and emerged among the winners.
Ana Elia successfully qualified for a Designer position at the renowned PRECIOSA GROUP for the Middle East based in Dubai- UAE in 2021. Design to Ana Elia is naught but a means to materialize the fantastic and surreal. Her work on customized chandeliers became her way to express creativity and the profound emotions that inspire her. She has found Preciosa to be the perfect medium through which she wants to express her artistic freedom.
She accomplished training and workshops in Europe notably in Italy and the Czech Republic, and participated in several exhibitions in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Milan- Italy.
After working on a variety of unique projects all over the Middle East ranging from prestigious Hospitality to exclusive Residential projects in Saudi Arabia and Dubai, she concluded that at this phase of her life, the UAE is the ideal canvas for her brush.
E: anaelia.pantoja@ciaad.org
T: +971 4 880 4472
M: +971 50 874 4084 (UAE)
M: +52 429 123 0707