Founded in early 2024 by Hilary Ann Miners and based in New York City, HAM is a full-service interior design studio bringing hospitality, retail, and commercial brands to life locally and abroad.
We partner with leading clients across food & beverage, beauty, cannabis, and luxury goods to build expressive, brand-specific environments. From neighborhood cafés and pop-ups to global flagships and destination restaurants, our designs have thoughtful cohesion across all physical, visual and experiential touchpoints. HAM’s specialty is shaping every part of your world—realizing storytelling opportunities of grand architectural signatures all the way through graphic identity systems.
We keep our multi-disciplinary studio small on purpose. That means every project gets the full attention of our founder and team—no handoffs, no silos. Treating your concept and its narrative with individuality, we draw from your story to shape a unique aesthetic that fosters a dialogue between product and place, values and experience. The result: immersive environments and authentic brand expressions that are highly considered and entirely your own.
Meet the founder
Hilary Ann Miners is a designer and architect known for her convivial, refined style and award-winning work in hospitality and retail. She views design as both process and product, a balance of flair and function. With 18+ years of multi-disciplinary experience, she brings a distinct creative point of view, deep technical fluency, and client-focused collaboration to every project. She founded her namesake studio to create harmonious environments across all touchpoints—executing bold expressions with bespoke details tailored to the brand, and grounded in context, color, and craft.
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 & collaborators
Our studio brings together interior and graphic designers, architects and strategists to work across projects at every scale—from spatial planning to storytelling, form to feeling. HAM’s creative process thrives on juxtaposition: pairing technical precision with artistic risk, and diverse disciplines with a shared vision.
Kelsey Milo, Marina Laurence, Brett Sachs, Reilly Megee and Katie Spak