Manena has been arranging flowers her entire life. She grew up spending summers in her mexican mother’s flower shops in the UAE , an unlikely origin for a New York floral practice, and a formative one. She went on to build the floral studio at ABC Carpet & Home, train a dedicated team of florists, and develop a department that became central to the store and ABC restaurants identity as an experiential destination. Since then she has designed flowers for uncountable events, weddings, restaurants, corporate spaces, and private homes. She delights the most in dramatic seasonal sculptural installations that are the signature of her practice: pieces conceived not as decoration but as objects, built to transform a room.