Gil Melott Studio is an interior design practice creating authored residential and boutique hospitality interiors rooted in character, craft, and personal history. For a decade, principal Gil Melott has built a body of work recognized by Architectural Digest, Elle Decor, WSJ Magazine, NYT Styles and other leading design publications. The studio calls its approach vocal luxury—a deliberate layering of texture, era and personal history in contrast to the anonymity of “quiet luxury.” Based in Chicago and working in New York and select national markets.

Gil Melott has lived multiple lives — ranch hand, ad exec, restaurateur, interior designer.

Gil’s design instincts were formed long before his first client. He grew up working a family ranch in Texas, where scale, utility, and material honesty weren't aesthetic choices — they were how things stayed standing. That grounding shows up in every room he designs today: nothing performative, everything load-bearing.

His path to interiors ran through advertising and brand strategy, not design school. As an art director and later the founder a brand strategy consultancy, Melott spent over a decade learning how narrative—not just aesthetics—moves people. Executive leadership in hospitality sharpened a second instinct: beautiful ideas only matter if they can actually be delivered.

Gil Melott Studio, founded in 2016, is where those threads converge. Melott calls his point of view vocal luxury — interiors with the spine to look like they belong to someone, built on the conviction that homes should read as heritage, not performance. Every room is layered with texture, era, craft and the kind of personal history that can't be manufactured on a deadline.

The studio's work has been recognized by Architectural Digest, Elle Decor, WSJ Magazine, NYT Styles, and Interior Design Magazine's Best of Year, with projects shown at Kips Bay and the Hamptons Designer Showhouse. Beyond residential and hospitality design, Melott writes Design Alchemy, an editorial platform on the industry's blind spots, and designs the LUZ lighting series and Bespoke Collections — extensions of the same belief that runs through all his work: a room should say something, and it should mean it.