Waldo Fernandez
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Waldo Fernandez is a Los Angeles–based interior designer and principal in Waldo's Designs.
Fernandez was born in Havana, Cuba, and moved with his family to New York City when he was a teenager. His father was a mechanical engineer and his mother had a flair for design.[1]
While a student in architecture and design at UCLA, Fernandez worked for Academy Award–winning set designer Walter M. Scott on motion pictures such as Planet of the Apes and Doctor Dolittle. His first interior design project was decorating a house for award-winning director John Schlesinger, 1974. This marked the beginning of Waldo's Designs, located in West Hollywood.
Fernandez has homes in Beverly Hills, Manhattan, and East Hampton, New York.