For Danielle Masseria, design starts with a love affair — with textiles, with objects, with the way a wall covering can change the entire feeling of a room. That passion, paired with a foundation in both fine arts and interior design, gives her a trained eye for how color, texture, and material come together to tell a story.

Danielle was raised in Cleveland, Ohio, and started working in her family's restaurant at just 11 years old. At 25, she enrolled in interior design school, earning an associate's degree in Interior Design and Applied Business.

In 2004, Danielle relocated to Naples, Florida, where she built her career in fine arts and interior design —at Baker Furniture as a visual designer and Judith Liegeois Design Inc. From there, her path shifted into representing fine artists, including Marcus Jansen, Jamali, and Juan Diaz — deepening the same instinct for composition and detail she brings to every project today.

A trip to Miami for Art Basel in 2011 changed everything. Danielle saw a city in the middle of a renaissance, and knew she had to be part of it. She relocated shortly after, and for the next 12 years, ran the Rothman Associates showroom — helping designers throughout South Florida build and refine their textile and wall covering’s for their project. She also helped curate the Rothman Associates textile collections.  

What Danielle values most is the relationship itself. Every client speaks their own design language, and part of her role is learning it — understanding not just what someone wants, but how they see it, so the two of them are always working from the same vision. That experience, built over more than a decade in the showroom, is now the foundation of Studio Masseria: the same trained eye and material knowledge, brought to clients on her own terms.

A love for textiles and objects. A partnership built on understanding. A space that feels like it was always meant to be.