Umé Studio is a multi-disciplinary architecture practice in Oakland and New York City, founded and led by architect Mei-Lan Tan. We focus on hospitality: hotels, spas, wineries, retreats, bath houses—and the materials, furniture, interiors, and landscapes inside and outside them.

Each of our projects is conceived as a cohesive whole, from the building down to the door handle, the lintel, and the stone underfoot. A single object can shape a room. Furniture and finishes are not selected from a catalogue, they are designed and made—the result of nearly a decade of fabrication relationships built at UMÉ, the design goods practice Mei-Lan founded in 2017.

Every project begins with a site read across many layers—physicality, history, culture, and future. The work that follows is research-led and fabrication-deep. What we build carries the values and specificity of its place.