Founded in 2024 by Hilary Ann Miners and based in New York City, HAM works with national and global clients across food & beverage, beauty, cannabis, and luxury goods on projects from intimate cafes to global retail flagships, fast casual restaurants to hybrid hospitality concepts.
At HAM, we design beautifully pragmatic environments to create your brand’s home.
We love telling your story through design – drawing inspiration from your brand identity and ethos, and the origins of your product or f&b offering. Our process tailors an aesthetic narrative and look-and-feel that is uniquely and unmistakably its own, while curating a guest experience to reflect your programmatic needs. At every turn, we look for storytelling opportunities from the subtle to the scalable, and bespoke jewel-box moments to grand architectural signatures. The attention to detail you put into your business warrants a space that works (and wows) as hard as you do, where form meets function, and complex operational requirements meet sense of play.
Meet the founder
For designer and architect Hilary Ann Miners, design is both process and product, tool and solution. With 15+ years of multidisciplinary experience, Hilary brings thoughtful creativity, deep technical expertise, and client-focused collaboration to every project. She founded her namesake studio in 2024 to bridge her areas of expertise, retail and hospitality.
From the earliest days of her career at Pompei A.D. creating design prototypes for retail giant Anthropologie, Hilary learned firsthand the impact of visual storytelling and brand cohesion in the physical environment. Most recently, Hilary was the SVP of Environment Design at Brand Bureau, an AvroKO company, where she spearheaded award-winning work for best-in-class hospitality visionaries such as Chef Stephanie Izard, cult beauty brand Sunday Riley, and national bank Capital One.
Hilary holds both a Masters of Architecture and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from Washington University in St. Louis.
DESIGN TEAM:
Kelsey Milo, Marina Laurence, Isabella Salinas
