STUDIO MELANIE RAINES

Austin, TX, USA
Los Angeles, CA, USA 

interiors projects globally

toward a design of : wholeness, alignment, art, slowness, discovery, the rare, the collected, the exceptional, the resonant, the sensory.

away from: commodity, flimsy, transactional, latest & greatest, the opulent, the serious, the universal, the anywhere.

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We are a boutique, full-service interior architecture and design practice exploring the intersection of integrated well-being and space. Working on private residences and highly-concepted commercial offerings, we believe that spaces are oft-overlooked vehicles for self-reflection and narrative, capable of nurturing more aligned, holistic, creative, healthy, and joyful lives. We use the three-dimensional confines of space to reconnect people with their values and frameworks, creating outward manifestations of complex inner landscapes.

So, why are we (meaningfully) different? We’ve redesigned a better process, we ask different questions, and we interest clients who, like us, seek a new way in a world saturated by options.

The work is born from biographies,
filtered into atmosphere,
and manifested to matter.

We do this by leading an inquiry-based workshop process to ask better questions, driving a method of collaboration that encompasses meaning, memory, and storytelling. It goes well beyond aesthetics. This integral approach to the work cultivates an enduring, living quality to the cinematic spaces we make, while offering an experience along the way that is tactile, introspective, pleasurable, and efficient. Never confined to an aesthetic, the studio’s spaces are a reflection of the humans that occupy them.

You are excavator, editor, storyteller, dreamer;
We are vision-keeper, collaborator, artist, shepherd.

Design, here, is a verb: an exercise in balancing the tone and quality of holistic space with the playful, the irreverent, the functional, and the evocative. Our work, at its core, is a contribution to human vitality: softening the gap between who we are and who we can be. 

What we do is a process, not a product. But in the end, the studio’s work calculates the synthesis of human senses and personal histories to create spaces that are at once precise, rebellious, art-forward, and often described as un-design. The faceted approach delivers sensory spaces that calibrate, embrace, and celebrate the choreography of our lives.


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