- Following 7.3K
- Followers 50.3K
- Engagement 1.6%
- Avg likes 872
- Avg comments 33
About Gil Melott Studio
Gil Melott Studio (@gilmelottstudio) is an Interior Design Studio creator on Instagram, also filed under Home & Decor. The account has 50,295 followers and 848 published posts. Recent posts average 872 likes and 33 comments, an engagement rate of 1.6%.
With 50.3K followers, Gil Melott Studio is a micro creator by the common 10,000 to 100,000 definition. Gil Melott Studio follows 7,339 accounts, so the audience is roughly 6.9 times the size of the list followed. Gil Melott Studio carries Instagram's verified badge and uses an Instagram professional account. Flinque files Gil Melott Studio under Interior Design Studio, with Home & Decor as a secondary category.
The Instagram bio for Gil Melott Studio runs to 19 words across 3 lines. Emoji sit alongside the words. The latest activity Flinque has on record for Gil Melott Studio dates from February 2026.
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848 Posts
Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Gil Melott Studio, 4 are carousels, 3 are videos and 3 are single images. No single format accounts for most of them. Gil Melott Studio has built a substantial archive of 848 posts. Against the audience, that is roughly 59 followers for each post published. Gil Melott Studio also keeps 18 story highlights on the profile. All 10 carry captions, averaging 103 words each. The captions are written mainly in English. Words that recur across them include itself, things, space, it’s and life. The captions tag #theshowhouseatthemart, #adpro, #designalchemy, #interiordesign and #tasteovertrends.
Most spaces get renovated into amnesia. New finishes. Clean lines. No evidence that anyone ever actually lived there or argued there, or stayed up too late there, or loved something wrong for twenty years and couldn’t explain why.
We call that good design. I call it a crime of omission.
The rooms worth living in aren’t the ones that photograph cleanly. They’re the ones that have been in a negotiation between old and new, between what the designer knows and what the client feels, between the space’s history and the life being built inside it right now.
That negotiation requires three things most designers won’t tell you up front: radical honesty about how you actually live, the mutual courage to disagree, and the patience to let a room arrive at itself rather than forcing a finish.
No algorithm teaches that. No mood board contains it. It happens in the room, between two people willing to stay in the discomfort long enough to find out what the space is trying to become.
Slide through. And if something in here sounds like the conversation you’ve been waiting to have about your space — my contact is in the bio.
→ Link in bio to read the full essay.
His approach is what he calls “behavior architecture.” Long before colors, fabrics, or art enter the conversation, Melott asks a single governing question: what kind of life should this room encourage? Once answered, he says, the interior design becomes inevitable.— Anna Callaghan,
The Showhouse at the Mart open
May 26 - September 2026.
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#theshowhouseatthemart
I always loved packing the bag to go “for the visit.” To my friends —cousins, Granny Dorothy and spend time on the ranch with Uncle Foy. Doing things that are pickled in my memory. That’s the measure of friendship, and youth isn’t it? Knowing people who will jar your secret and store it in a dark cellar forever. People who know it’s never about the secret itself, but the keeping of it.
I have all kinds of sense memories, the smell of bacon, the caliche clay after the rare rain and the damned bailed hay that made me sneeze and my cousins laugh at me. And music. Always music. It’s interpreted different for me now but the feeling is the same. It feels like your skin after a cool bath, a cold beer and the breeze while you swing on the front porch.
Give the mixtape a listen. Ask me questions. LINK IN BIO.
XG
We know the algorithmic design is hollow. We feed it. And we keep doing it anyway.
This is the Beige State of the Union. How we agreed, quietly, collectively, to make everything meh. Not because we were forced to. Because the feed rewarded it and we said yes.
Swipe for the provocation. Then read the essay at the link in the bio for the big words.
xG
Focus: Aesthetics, strength, and endurance.
Amenities: Weights, cardio machines, and maybe some group fitness classes.
Vibe: Often a “get in, get out” workout environment, suited for self-directed exercise.
She says “Wellness Center” (Holistic Health Focus)
Focus: Overall well-being, including mental, physical, and emotional health.
Amenities: Everything in a gym, plus services like massage therapy, nutrition counseling, yoga, meditation, and sometimes physiotherapy.
Vibe: A “one-stop health shop” aimed at disease prevention, focus and long-term health, not just exercise.
The luxury is having it down the hall. The flex is using it the way you want or need to. My job is to make sweating sexy. No light weights.
#adpro
Grand Opening May 20th
Ongoing open to the public May 26-September 25
The Merchandise Mart Suite 137
#theshowhouseatthemart
Rooms in the 1980s were allowed to be weird, personal, even a little hostile. You had to earn your way into them. They weren’t styled for approval—they were built around a life.
Then luxury got nervous.
Celebrity moved in.
And interiors started performing like movie stills instead of private spaces.
Lifestyle used to be the luxury.
Now luxury is a pose.
Design Alchemy isn’t interested in perfect rooms or polite taste. We’re interested in places with scars. With habits. With a point of view strong enough to survive being misunderstood.
If your house explains itself, it’s already lost. I’m not looking for a comeback of the 1980s — just some of the “be home by dark” energy.
FULL ESSAY on Substack.
Link in bio.
#DesignAlchemy #InteriorDesign #TasteOverTrends #DesignCulture #authenticity
The paradox: build systems so good that your team doesn't need you to execute them.
team delivered record-breaking work while he recovered from surgery.
🤝🤝🤝
Custom Leather Workshop
Showroom
Production
“Within a year, I realized there was a better way to get it done - and Programa delivered on those things.”
Gil and his team run everything in one place - giving designers, clients, and collaborators a single source of truth.
This is just a glimpse into our upcoming feature with Gil Melott Studio. Stay tuned.
Collaborators
Custom Leather Workshop
Showroom
Gil Melott Studio's engagement
Gil Melott Studio's engagement rate on Instagram is 1.6%, between 1% and 3%, or 1 to 3 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 63 followers. An average post collects 872 likes and 33 comments, close to 26 likes for each comment.
Engagement rate
1.6%
- Avg likes
- 872
- Avg comments
- 33
- Interactions : followers
- 1 : 63
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Who is Gil Melott Studio?
Gil Melott Studio (@gilmelottstudio) is an Interior Design Studio creator on Instagram, also filed under Home & Decor. Gil Melott Studio carries Instagram's verified badge and uses an Instagram professional account. The Instagram bio for Gil Melott Studio runs to 19 words across 3 lines.
How many followers does Gil Melott Studio have?
Gil Melott Studio has 50,295 followers on Instagram (50.3K). Gil Melott Studio follows 7,339 accounts, so the audience is roughly 6.9 times the size of the list followed. Gil Melott Studio has built a substantial archive of 848 posts.
What is Gil Melott Studio's engagement rate?
Gil Melott Studio's engagement rate on Instagram is 1.6%, between 1% and 3%, or 1 to 3 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 63 followers. An average post collects 872 likes and 33 comments, close to 26 likes for each comment.
What does Gil Melott Studio post about on Instagram?
Flinque files Gil Melott Studio under Interior Design Studio, with Home & Decor as a secondary category. Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Gil Melott Studio, 4 are carousels, 3 are videos and 3 are single images. The 10 recent Instagram captions Flinque holds for Gil Melott Studio repeatedly use the words itself, things, space, it’s and life. Gil Melott Studio's captions carry hashtags such as #theshowhouseatthemart, #adpro and #designalchemy. Gil Melott Studio writes those captions mainly in English. Gil Melott Studio keeps 18 story highlights, which open with a free Flinque account.
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