ELLE EMME CO. is the custom residential practice of Lisa Marie Milat. After two decades of architectural practice with AD100 firms in both San Francisco and Los Angeles, Ms. Milat moved to the east end of Long Island and practiced with the modern residential firm of Blaze Makoid Architecture as their Interiors Design Director, creating some of their most innovative interiors to date. Having practiced on both coasts, Ms. Milat has cultivated a design language that marries East Coast refinement with the ease and casual grace associated with California. In 2019, Ms. Milat then re-founded her own studio, STUDIO | ELLE EMME CO., to apply the high level of service from the very large and complex projects she had been working on to smaller ones, providing architecture, interior design and construction management services from design conception to final construction and occupancy.
PHILOSOPHY
The Studio aims to create highly individualized environments to accommodate everyday domestic life, accomplishing this through a rigorous design process that searches for a client’s personal definition of function and aesthetics as well as identifying a project's unique context and site. Scale, proportion and craftsmanship are uniting factors amongst both the modern and the traditional designs in the Studio's portfolio.
CREDENTIALS
Ms. Milat earned a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture and Landscape Architecture from the University of California at Berkeley and subsequent Certificate of Interior Design from UCLA. She returned to her native New York in 2015 to be near the family and city she loves and currently resides on Shelter Island year round where she has her studio.