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Ana Paola Mendoza
and Rolando Torres
Carlota Flower Lab
México City, México
carlotafl owerlab.mx
@carlotafl owerlab
e mission of Carlota Flower
Lab, founded in 2016 by the
wife-and-husband team of Ana
Paola Mendoza and Rolando
Torres, is "to spread the love
for fl owers and fl ower art in
México through creations that
break traditional rules and move
toward the most innovative
techniques on the international
scene, so that buying and giving
away fl owers go from being an
obsolete act to an experience
that generates emotions in an
extraordinary way, governed by
the values of quality, creativity,
innovation, excellence, love,
joy and community."
Since the couple's fi rst
series of workshops in 2018,
Carlota Flower Lab has set
the benchmark for excellence
Méxican fl ower art. To
date, Mendoza and Torres
have trained approximately
2,000 fl ower designers from
throughout the Americas
and beyond, and they have
introduced to their students
top-name design collaborators
from around the globe,
including Susan McLeary
(a.k.a. Passionfl ower Sue);
Sofi a Veyber, of Lacy Bird
and Lacy Bird Floral Design
Academy ; and McQueens
Flowers and McQueens
Flower School.
"Carlota is a nod to heritage, from which are born our love
and respect for f lowers and the sense of family that we
wanted to give to the training project for future f lorists."
— Ana Paola Mendoza and Rolando Torres
