Studio Collective

Studio Collective is a boutique interior design firm on Lincoln Boulevard in Venice, California, run by principals Adam Goldstein, Leslie Kale and Christian Schulz. Hospitality is its core: hotels, restaurants, bars, nightclubs and private clubs, with workspaces, multifamily and residential projects on the side. Past work includes the interiors of Hotel Figueroa in downtown Los Angeles, The Bungalow at the Fairmont in Santa Monica and Hyatt’s Tommie brand in Austin and Hollywood, and it’s turning Miami’s Moore Building into a private club and hotel. In Banff, Alberta, Studio Collective led the redesign of the Rimrock Banff, which Oxford Properties reopened in October 2026 as Accor’s first Emblems Collection hotel in North America after a gut renovation reported at C$115 million.

Craft over status, history over trend. That is how Studio Collective states its philosophy, and in hospitality design — an industry that runs on novelty — it is a deliberate position.

The studio works out of Venice, California, where founding partner and design director Adam Goldstein has lived since 1998. He leads with two other principals, Leslie Kale and Christian Schulz, in what the firm describes as a boutique agency rather than a large practice.

The work is recognizable even if the name is not. Hotel Figueroa in downtown Los Angeles, The Bungalow at the Fairmont in Santa Monica, Hyatt’s Tommie brand in both Austin and Hollywood, Susurros del Corazon in Punta Mita, Mexico, and the transformation of Miami’s Moore Building into a luxury private club and hotel all came from this office. Collaborators named on its own pages include hotelier Jason Pomeranc, nightlife operator Brent Bolthouse and chef Giada De Laurentiis.

Ten project categories are published: bars, hotels, multi-family, nightclubs, workspaces, private clubs, private residential, restaurants, retail and commercial, and a coming-soon list. Bar and nightclub design is a genuine specialism rather than an afterthought in a restaurant — one of the studio’s bars was included in the 2022 Belgian book “150 Bars You Need to Visit Before You Die.”

The press archive is the most useful thing on the site for anyone sizing up the practice. It holds roughly 200 items going back to 2009, across Architectural Digest, Dezeen, Wallpaper, Surface, Vogue, Forbes, Conde Nast Traveler, Robb Report, The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, with repeated Hospitality Design coverage including a 2025 HD Awards project winners feature.

Reading through it fills out the geography: the Rimrock in Banff, 1 Hotel Seattle, The Hotel at The Moore in Miami, Four Seasons Vail and Tavernetta Vail, the Four Seasons Surf Club in Miami, Virgin Hotels Las Vegas, Hotel June and The Shay in Los Angeles, Solage in Napa Valley, Park House in Dallas, the Surfjack Hotel in Waikiki, Zouk Los Angeles, and the Vinyl Room at the Hollywood Palladium.

Press inquiries go to a separate address from general contact, which is a small sign of how much of the work arrives through editorial attention.