SElected press

2023

Vogue

September issue covershoot, “Greatest of All Time.” Naomi Cambell and Cindy Crawford model the Listening Chair.

LUXE

“License to Experiment: Meet the fresh new wave of furniture makers who are pushing the boundaries of form, function and materiality.”

NEW YORK MAGAZINE / CURBED

“How Luam Melake, Designer of Furniture with Feelings, Furnishes her Harlem Co-op.” By the iconic Wendy Goodman.

DESIGN DISTRICT

“Social Seating: Artist Luam Melake’s Functional Furniture Inspired Human Connections.”

INTERIOR DESIGN

“8 New Works by Luam Melake are on Display in New York.”

SIGHT UNSEEN

“The 2022 American Design Hot List.”

the new york times, T MAGAZINE, THE T List

“Luam Melake’s Soft, Social Furniture, on View in New York.”

Architectural digest

“Luam Melake’s Foam Furniture Wants to Bring People Back Together.”

2022

Architectural digest (Europe)

“Tapestries are the New 'Must' in Decoration: Fresh Pieces that Elevate Any Space.”

Sight Unseen (Book)

Khemsurov, Monica and Jill Singer. How to Live with Objects: A Guide to More Meaningful Interiors. Clarkson Potter, 2022.

DEZEEN

“Architects and Designers Create 33 conceptual Birdhouses for Brooklyn Botanic Garden.”

2021

Pin-Up

“Material Promiscuity: Objects USA and the Evolution of American Craft.”

Sight Unseen

“Luam Melake Weaves Tapestries from Latex, Rubber, Memories, and More.”

TL Mag

“What is Contemporary Weaving?”

Contemporary Art Daily

“Luam Melake at Parker Gallery.”

Gray Magazine

“Q&A: Female Design Council Grant Winner Luam Melake.”

KCRW

“Luam Melake at Parker Gallery.”

Cover Magazine

“Sensitive Forms: Luam Melake.”

Design Miami Forum Magazine

“American Craft Past, Present and Future.”

Whitewall

“Luam Melake and Mia Wright-Ross Awarded Female Design Council Grant 01.”

2020

(Books)

Adamson, Glenn. Objects USA 2020. R & Company and The Monacelli Press, 2020. 

Yacouba Konaté, et al. Sugmegne Ngaparou 2. Fondation Blachère, 2020. 

2018

Hyperallergic

“Measured and Visually Musical, Two Artists Harmonize.”