JESE MEDINA-SUAREZ

Born in the Canary Islands, Spain, to a Spanish businessman father and Venezuelan real estate investor mother, Jesé grew up within an environment where design and construction were commonplace. As an only child, imagination became central to play and learning, fostering a passion for creativity. Later on, as a teenager, his first work experiences were on the family business’s construction sites, mostly painting walls and ceilings, brushing wooden surfaces and loading construction materials. Sometime afterwards, on Tenerife’s southwest coast, he visited the newly opened Bahía del Duque Hotel for the first time, a luxurious resort which sparked his fascination with tailoring space and the transformative power of well-designed environments—shaping not only the physical setting but also how people feel and experience themselves. This encounter proved pivotal in his decision to pursue a career in design and deepened his passion for hospitality.

Jesé’s academic path began in Spain with a degree in Building Engineering, where he honed skills in construction techniques, materials, and hand drafting, which became the foundation of his design approach. Back then, all drawings at university were hand-drawn, and it was not until he completed this degree that software became central to academic training. Fuelled by creativity, he moved to Milan to study Architecture and Interior Design at Politecnico di Milano, under the mentorship of Angelo Torricelli and Pierluigi Cerri, graduating with a specialisation in interiors and FF&E in the city of furniture-making excellence.

Upon completion of his studies in Architecture and Building Engineering, his professional career began in Milan, collaborating with architects Franco Artifoni and Maria Grazia Pipitone on hospitality and residential interiors, as well as product design.