The Studio

Valentina & Koyess is a design and production studio creating scenographic, experiential, and permanent environments.

Each project is developed from first concept through built delivery, integrating creative direction, spatial design, and production into a single process.


The studio works across festivals, brand environments, hospitality spaces, real estate developments, private events, and cultural gatherings.


Formed through sustained collaboration across international projects, Valentina & Koyess operates globally, shaping environments within diverse cultural and geographic contexts.


The studio remains involved from early definition through final delivery, ensuring continuity as ideas move from concept into built form. This approach allows design intent, spatial composition, and production execution to evolve together, giving each environment clarity, atmosphere, and structural integrity at scale.

Melissa Valentina

Melissa is a Costa Rican scenographer and creative director with over two decades of experience across spatial design, brand, and cultural production. She founded Cloud9 Studio in 2014, establishing a leading interior design practice in Costa Rica before moving into regional leadership roles at Uber and leading the launch of Bumble in Mexico, overseeing brand and market expansion across Latin America. She now directs the creative and spatial development of large-scale festivals, immersive environments, and hospitality projects internationally, including Labryinto Festival. Her work spans stages, installations, and destination-led experiences, shaping each project through composition, scale, and material precision to create environments that are structurally bold, emotionally resonant, and built to hold collective experience.









Melissa is a Costa Rican scenographer and creative director with over two decades of experience across spatial design, brand, and cultural production. She founded Cloud9 Studio in 2014, establishing a leading interior design practice in Costa Rica before moving into regional leadership roles at Uber and leading the launch of Bumble in Mexico, overseeing brand and market expansion across Latin America. She now directs the creative and spatial development of large-scale festivals, immersive environments, and hospitality projects internationally, including Labryinto Festival. Her work spans stages, installations, and destination-led experiences, shaping each project through composition, scale, and material precision to create environments that are structurally bold, emotionally resonant, and built to hold collective experience.









Sherif Koyess

Sherif is a cultural entrepreneur developing and producing large-scale festivals and hospitality ventures that transform distinctive locations into global cultural destinations. As co-founder of Tithorea, he leads the strategy, development, and execution of international cultural platforms designed to attract global audiences while generating tourism and long-term economic value for their host regions. A civil engineer with more than a decade managing high-end residential construction and development projects in New York and Boston, he brings infrastructure expertise, financial discipline, and operational precision to the delivery of complex cultural environments and destination-driven ventures, grounding ambitious creative projects in technical clarity and rigorous execution.

Let’s Build Something Timeless.

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Let’s Build Something Timeless.

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Let’s Build Something Timeless.

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