DESIGNED SERENDIPITY
Studio Gild, a Chicago-based design practice co-founded by Melissa Benham, Jennie Bishop, and Kristen Ekeland are making waves on all the coasts with clients in Chicago and the Great Lakes region, New York City, and most recently on the West Coast with their brand new studio in Los Angeles. The trio met for the first time in 2006, collaborating and cutting their teeth while working at a well-known Chicago interior design firm.
In 2013, after having gone their separate ways for some time, the ladies were ready to collaborate again, and decided to take the next big step and start a business together - a year later, Studio Gild was born. Recently celebrating their 7th anniversary, Jennie says the time has flown by. “We say every week, ‘wow that was a crazy week’, and then I look up and I’m like hold on, it’s been that crazy week for 7 years!"