01/14/2026
🥳 We’re celebrating our business birthday —hello nine years! And dishing our story from soup to nuts...
Heyo, we’re Lucia Civile LaSpada and Alicia Civile Pataky, sisters and CoFounders of LACE Photo Media —a full service brand strategy and design firm specializing in branding, website design, social media management, and you guessed it, photography 📸
We offer our menu of services a la carte or in prix fixe bundles for design cohesiveness and savings, and our offerings are especially aligned with serving restaurants and hospitality brands!
🥂🍽️✨Why do we love working with restaurants and hospitality brands?
Well, first up, food, drink, and gathering. We are both major foodies and love representing flavors and ambiance in a way that gets customers booking.
🍝 Second, we come from an Italian American family on our dad’s side, and let’s just say hospitality and tables overflowing with family, friends, strangers who would become friends, laughter, debate, and course after course of mouth watering fare were our very welcome norm. ✨The motto? Always make too much food, invite more people than can comfortably fit at the table, and mangia!
⛰️We’re locals who grew up in Gardiner at the base of the Shawangunks, soaking in the steadiness of the mountain at our back and the invitation of the foothills and valley spread before us.
🗺️ Our roots took us in two different directions. Lucia dug deep into the Hudson Valley, attending college locally while bartending and waiting tables then pursuing marketing in the hospitality space. Alicia pursued fine arts in the HV then went off into the great unknown, attending college and grad school for interior architecture in Miami, moving around the country and working in both boutique and corporate firms specializing in hospitality and workplace design ie offices, hotels, and restaurants.
💡After years of working in our fields, the same epiphany struck us both independently but simultaneously…
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