Our Team

Lee Gallagher, Designer

A University of Tennessee graduate in Art and a native Nashvillian, Lee has had experience in both Design and retail. She has become Bella Linea’s official Maitre d’: she ‘doesn’t meet a stranger’, loves people and linens, and is truly one of the nicest, most enthusiastic people you’ll ever know.

Grace Mayfield, Designer & Inventory Manager

Grace is a ‘jack of all trades’ and master of all, too. It was because of her ability to do three jobs at one time that made her a natural to assume our Inventory Manager position, as well as continue working with clients. A graduate of O’More College of Design, Grace has been with Bella Linea for seven years, and is assuming buying responsibilities. We are indeed fortunate to have her left and right brain!

Jennifer Smith, Designer

Our newest Designer, Jennifer, is a native Nashvillian and a graduate of O’More College of Design. With seven years of design experience under her belt, Jennifer has proven to be creative and a fast learner.  To unwind, Jennifer enjoys creating scrapbooks and dabbling with jewelry and accessorizing.

Beth Wittrig, Designer

Beth has been with Bella Linea for seventeen years, and is our resident caretaker (she looks after Belle, our recently retired store cat, along with the rest of us). An Art graduate, Beth can look at a color and see other shades that the rest of us can’t. Amazing! As our designated “Linen Professor”, she also knows more about linens than most of our manufacturers do. Besides being creative, she’s practical, too---such as knowing how to fit the right linens with a bed that may be piled high with kids and pets. And as the most tactile-sensitive of our group, her enthusiasm for linens is contagious. Which spills over to our clients, too, with her track record for consistently being tops in sales.

Mike Helms, Inventory Receiver

Mike is our guy in every sense of the word. He wears a lot of hats: from receiving inventory to computing retail books to being the official "Hall Monitor." Mike has been with Bella Linea for over thirteen years since his college days. He graduated with double major in Accounting and Organizational Communications from Lipscomb University, and is a Minister to the Deaf at Hermitage Church of Christ.