We are pleased to announce that Ben Lucero will be the featured designer at our 2013 San Diego Christmas Design Show. His bio follows:
Ben is a seventeen year veteran of the floral industry. Ben started traveling nationwide, designing for major five star hotels and their special events in 2004. In that same year, the “Ahwatukee Hills” newspaper located in Arizona nominated Ben for the “Floral Designer of the Year” award. As team lead for a large event company, Ben played a key role in the design and install of the holiday décor for many luxury hotels located in the Phoenix surrounding area including the JW Marriott Desert Ridge, the Phoenician and the Boulders Hotel, for several years running. Ben continues to play a role in the design of holiday décor for luxury hotels in the San Diego metro area including many private residences.
After having worked in the event industry for eight years, Ben was invited to design a custom floral for each of the performing artist’s dressing rooms at the 2009 Grammy Awards. While living in Las Vegas, NV, Ben was fortunate to design for many of Las Vegas’ lavish celebrity parties including the Hard Rock Casino’s “New Years Eve Bash” in “The Joint” and during the summer months for “Rehab”, also at the Hard Rock Casino. As part of the floral design team, Ben played a key role in designing for Playboy’s Playmate of the Year Awards in 2009 for the Palms Hotel and Casino.
Ben moved to Albuquerque, NM in 2010. That fall he entered in the floriculture design competition at the New Mexico State Fair and went on to win nineteen ribbons, seven of which were first place blue ribbons, and the “2010 New Mexico State Fair Design Sweepstakes Award”. Ben has brought his creativity to southern California and is a current resident of Oceanside, CA. He hopes to give inspiration to other artists like himself with his design, like others in the past have given him.
