Robert Vecchio Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles & Miami Flordia

Robert Vecchio specializes in the selection of finishes, surfaces, paint colors, flooring surfaces, hardware and lighting creating environments that respond to the sensibilities, life-style and the practical needs of his client. I approach each space taking in concerns for functional elegance, a fusion of multi-cultural references and modernist design concepts. I produced custom and limited edition upholstery utilizing my 18 years’ experience in the manufacturing, design and fabric construction giving me the confidence and determination to build any upholstered piece with ease.

Property manager of a 16 unit apartment building, day to day operations, collecting rents, upgrading apartments and double the value of the building in 2 years

Los Angeles

Building manager of a 18 unit building. collecting rents , scheduling maintenance & repairs .

Greater Los Angeles Area

Managing the daily operations of a High end, fashion forward interior design business. I Supervised the management office that scheduled the production of customer’s orders, managed any customer service problems, and worked with sales reps helping them with weekly totals, creating sales tools to increase their totals. RVA owed the rights to manufacture the "Charles Carol" upholstery line, so we maintain the operations, scheduling production, customer service, trade shows and operation of showrooms keeping the integrity of the Brand with fresh designs and 450 distinctive fabrics.

Los Angeles

I designed an affordable upholstery and slipcover line consisting of 450 fabrics, 45 frames and 15 quick ship programs working with US fabric mills and European mills creating a Fashion Forward yet mid-priced line. I hired a national sales force comprised of outside 25 road representatives and 6 showrooms. The next nine years the company had sixty five different upholstery pieces, 800 fabrics and sales of $5.500, 000

Los Angeles

I was responsible for creating a national sales force working closely with showroom's though out the country. I handled Key Accounts from national chains.

South Beach, Fl 33139

I was responsible for the daily operation of a 4,000 S.F. upscale home furnishings Design Gallery. I choose product’s at National Gift markets and imported items from Thailand creating a distinctive shopping environment. I created an implemented a system to tracking items by departments, then categories analyzing the profitable of the merchandise by the S.F of the rent. I hired, trained sales staff, and implemented a point system that increased sales by 20%. The yearly sales were $1,000,000.

The company was a wholly owned subsidiary of the Gap with flag ship store in the Beverly Center Los Angeles and second location San Francisco. This was a 13,000 S.F.modern day version of a department store specializing in High Design home furnishings consisting of seven departments; gourmet. coffee/tea bar, dinnerware, office/stationary, basics ( mass merchandised) and furniture merchandized in a "Gallery Setting". Over the next four years I trained in each departments as manager learning the ins and out of the product, then was promoted to assistant store manager. I worked closely with the display team to assure we were on the cutting edge with our merchandise displays.

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