Among themselves, Luis Vidal, Drew Duncan, and Danny Onate are the Boys of Nido, a friendship that runs back fifteen years before any showroom existed. For most of that time they worked the South Florida furniture trade separately, building rooms and growing brands for other people, agreeing between them that if the moment ever came, their combined skill sets would make them a real force in the outdoor market. In August of 2024, the moment came. All three were free at once. Luis raised the idea of West Palm Beach, and because Drew had grown up in nearby Palm Beach Gardens and knew the area, the plan moved fast. Four months later, in November 2024, they opened Nido Home for a soft launch in the Flamingo Park Design District.
What they had watched take shape across West Palm Beach was a wave of serious modern architecture and a gap in what the area could offer to furnish it. The modern European furniture and lighting that suited those homes lived in Miami, Milan, and New York, not in the Palm Beaches. “We saw the modern style adorning all the new architecture in West Palm Beach,” Drew says, “and we wanted to offer our clients collections that were found in the major design hubs of Miami, Milan and New York City.” Nido opened to close that distance, with a roster anchored in Spain and Italy and extended through a tightly chosen group of European houses. Gandia Blasco, Gervasoni, Expormim, Santa and Cole, Secto Design, and the rest are names designers and architects have sourced from international markets for years, now available in person, minutes from the island of Palm Beach.
Built to Feel Like a Home, Not a Floor
The name carries the idea. Nido means nest in both Italian and Spanish, a deliberate choice for a showroom that could easily have gone the other way, toward something colder and more minimal. The partners wanted the opposite. “We didn’t want a floor of furniture. We wanted a place you could imagine living in,” Luis says. The showroom is composed the way a considered home is, with environments that make sense together, pieces shown in context, and scale you can read with your eyes rather than a tape measure. The collections span indoor and outdoor living, lighting, rugs, and home décor, assembled with a Spanish and Italian sensibility that maps closely onto the way people live in South Florida. Much of what gives the rooms their weight is the lineage behind them. The houses Nido carries have spent decades pairing manufacturers with named designers, and that history shapes how the team talks about a piece, less about dimensions and finishes than about why a collection has lasted.
What South Florida Actually Demands
Outdoor living in South Florida is not a seasonal indulgence but a year-round one, and the climate it has to perform in is unforgiving. Intense sun, heat, salt air near the coast, humidity, heavy seasonal rain, constant use, and the wear that comes with lush tropical landscaping all separate what photographs well from what actually holds up. The partners have spent the better part of two decades watching that difference play out in this market, and the outdoor program reflects it, built around houses like Gandia Blasco, Vincent Sheppard, Danao, Gervasoni, and Lebello.
The guidance is part of the offer. Before anything is specified, the team asks the questions that head off expensive mistakes, about sun exposure, proximity to the ocean, covered versus uncovered conditions, maintenance, and how often a space gets used. “Selecting the right furniture, along with understanding the maintenance program can increase the longevity of their furniture for 10-15 years,” Drew notes. Timing matters as much as performance. Palm Beach runs on a seasonal calendar, and winter residents furnishing a home rarely have months to wait, so Nido leans on domestic stock programs at Vincent Sheppard, Nardi, and Gervasoni to deliver select collections within two to six weeks. For the trade, the relationship runs deeper still, into lead times, customization, and the performance history of every brand on the floor.
Lighting closes the loop, and the partners treat it as a foundational decision rather than a finishing one. Santa and Cole, Secto Design, and Tom Dixon anchor the category. “Lighting creates atmospheres,” Drew says. “It can set the entire mood of an experience.” The fixtures have to survive the same heat and humidity as everything else, which is why the showroom holds its line on quality even where cheaper pieces would photograph just as well. “There are a lot of less expensive pieces that will look good,” he adds, “however we chose to provide resources that will provide the longevity that our clients have come to expect.”
The gap they spent years watching is the one they have now closed. For the modern homes going up across the Palm Beaches, the collections that once meant a flight to Milan or a drive to Miami now sit in Flamingo Park, shown the way the partners always believed they should be. Three friends set out to become a force in this market, and they have.
