What Studio Tre does

Studio Tre is an architectural and interior design practice founded in 2022 and headquartered in New York, with a secondary office in Florida. The firm was co-founded by Whitley Esteban and Ernesto Gloria, both of whom previously held design positions at established luxury and hospitality design firms — Esteban at Roman and Williams and Gloria at Tom Scheerer. The practice operates across four primary segments: residential, hospitality, cultural, and retail, with a project footprint that spans the Americas and Europe.

The firm's service offering centers on full-scope architectural and interior design services delivered through a project-based fee model typical of boutique design practices. Studio Tre's project portfolio includes named commissions across hospitality and cultural segments, including Islas Secas (Panama), Chocobar Cortés, Tigre, venues within Ace Hotel properties, and Nicoletti Contemporary. The mix suggests a deliberate orientation toward design-forward hospitality operators, experiential cultural institutions, and selectively branded commercial clients rather than commoditized residential volume.

Studio Tre has accumulated meaningful editorial traction in a compressed timeframe, with features in Architectural Digest (including recognition in the AD New American Voices 2024 list), Vogue, and The New York Times. The firm's positioning combines craftsmanship, material specificity, and cultural storytelling — capabilities and aesthetic vocabulary inherited from the founders' prior tenures — and these are the primary assets underwriting its brand and client acquisition motion. As a privately held, recently founded practice, Studio Tre has not disclosed revenue, headcount, or funding data.

Name

Studio Tre

Legal name

Studio Tre Projects LLC

Website

https://tre.studio

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Studio Tre is a New York- and Florida-based architectural and interior design practice founded in 2022 by Whitley Esteban and Ernesto Gloria, serving residential, hospitality, cultural, and retail clients across the Americas and Europe.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Design and Architectural Services: Studio Tre generates revenue through project-based design fees for architectural and interior design projects. Projects include private residential work, commercial hospitality spaces (restaurants, lounges, hotels), and cultural/exhibition spaces. The studio works with discerning clientele across the Americas and Europe.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Studio Tre is a design practice delivering architectural and interior design services across a wide range of project types and scales. Its work spans private residential projects (apartments, cottages, upstate homes), commercial hospitality venues (restaurants, cocktail lounges, hotels, private island resorts), and cultural/exhibition spaces, with projects located across the Americas and Europe. The studio is engaged on a per-project basis for discerning clientele.

Product overview

Studio Tre is a design practice offering architectural and interior design services. Founded in 2022, the studio works across a wide-ranging scale of projects spanning the Americas and Europe—from private residential work to commercial projects. The studio's portfolio includes completed and in-progress projects such as residential cottages, urban apartments, restaurants, cocktail lounges, a distillery, a swim club, a café, an exhibition space, custom furniture, and hospitality villas. The company does not offer distinct software products or modules; its offering is professional design services as a unified practice.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Named customers7 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Roman and WilliamsminorOthersStudio Tre references and builds upon the design language established by Roman and Williams at Ace Brooklyn for the Lele's Roman project. This is an acknowledgment of design lineage rather than a formal partnership.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Emerging players

• Reed Avedon Design: NY-based emerging interior design firm with growing presence in hospitality and residential. Comparable emerging boutique profile with similar scale and client mix to Studio Tre.

Direct peers

• Ken Fulk: NY- and SF-based design firm specializing in hospitality, residential, and event design. Comparable in delivering high-profile hospitality venues and leveraging press coverage to attract premium clientele.
• Roman and Williams: NYC-based architecture and interior design firm and Studio Tre's direct archetype. Co-founder Whitley Esteban spent 8 years leading architectural design direction here; Studio Tre's Ace Hotel Brooklyn work explicitly builds on the design language Roman and Williams established at the property. Highly comparable in client mix (hospitality, cultural) and design sensibility.
• Ashe Leandro: NY-based architecture and interior design firm with strong presence in hospitality, residential, and cultural work. Comparable boutique scale, classical-leaning aesthetic, and project-based revenue model.
• Foley & Cox: NY-based interior design firm with strong hospitality and high-end residential portfolio. Comparable in client mix, design sensibility, and boutique professional services model.
• Tom Scheerer, Inc. Hamptons- and NYC-based interior design firm where Ernesto Gloria spent 8 years. Comparable in serving private residential and hospitality clients in the same premium vernacular-classical aesthetic; direct lineage to Studio Tre's lead interior designer.
• Fairfax and Sammons: NYC- and London-based classical architecture and interior design firm where Ernesto Gloria worked. Operates in the same high-end residential and institutional markets with a comparable approach to vernacular-aware, classical-inspired design.
• G.P. Schafer Architect: New York classical-leaning architecture and interiors firm where Whitley Esteban previously worked. Operates in the same high-end residential and hospitality segments with a similar vernacular-classical aesthetic and project-based fee model.
• Champalimaud Design: NY-based interior design firm with extensive hospitality and luxury hotel portfolio. Comparable in serving five-star hospitality clients and high-end residential commissions at a boutique scale.
• Workstead: Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary design practice working across architecture, interiors, and product design. Comparable in scale, hospitality and residential client mix, and PR-driven brand positioning within the contemporary design press.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Instagraminstagram.com/studiotreprojects

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Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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