Muzingo Associates/Catfish Bite, Inc. - Founder of Southern Fried Chicks Showroom & Rock Girl Lounge ( our other cool Dallas showroom)

Gina Muzingo, Muzingo Associates www.ginamuzingo.com has been designing interiors & landscapes specializing in restaurants, hotels & other commercial establishments & residences since 1984.

Gina won several awards for her projects and was published in over fifty hardbound books and magazines with outstanding reviews, not to mention a feature editorial in The "Los Angeles Times" Sunday Calendar Section (an outstanding achievement to all those who follow this periodical). In addition, she has been seen on several television shows and news broadcast ranging from ABC News, NBC News, and several spots on HGTV (Home & Garden TV)

When she was aggressively approached by Disney at the young age of twenty, she declined the position and plowed into the corporate world. She then worked for many of the top restaurant and hotel design consultants in the world that specialized in interior design, food facility planning and graphic design. At those firms, she designed hundreds of projects. She also was one of only two women consultants in food facility planning in the country for many years.

In 1993 Gina she positioned herself to reach a southern audience with Catfish Bite and plowed forward being the leader in setting a "cottage trend" in the home decor industry spanning across the country. So much so, that many top named businesses then and now follow her trends. From then on, her style spread like wild fire throughout the industry and for years to come. She launched Catfish Bite a manufacturing company, design showroom, retail store and retail web site in Los Angeles, CA, Culver City, CA. and Dallas, TX.

Catfish Bite has been featured in over 40 periodicals and won an Award by Baby & Children's Products News as "the readers favorites".

Catfish Bite has also been featured on ABC News, NBC News, Fox News and Fine Living. www.catfishbite.com (see press coverage).

Catfish Bite creates and manufactures high-end home decor products for many of the top name department stores and mail order catalogs in the world.

On a personal note: Gina spent twelve years studying classical piano, jazz trombone and also studied art, architecture and interior design from the famed Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.

She resides with her husband of twenty years in sunny Southern California and enjoys gardening in her woodland chic styled yard, (created & landscaped by Gina) and also enjoys her top AKC agility Shepard Shelby and her new rescue Aussie Loki as well as enjoying her kitties Meishe, & Zihua (a rescue by Gina from Zihuatanejo) & all the fish in her pond.

She is just a big kid at heart!