A multi-faceted designer

tara's designs:

Interior + architectural products for leading producers.   

She has a wide-lens with the building + design industry and understands its stakeholder's  

challenges, obstacles, and desires.

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Product Portfolio, A Sampling

 
 

Products: Furniture

Lounge, Tandem, + Tables

An internationally award-winning furniture designer, Tara designs for intensive use to "marry" high function with high aesthetics. She ensures her designs can be efficiently sourced, tooled, and mass-produced.

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Kwalu, Healthcare + EDU

Diamante Collection, Lounge + Tables

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A salute to modern Danish Design, Kwalu’s Diamante is a beautifully tailored unique “pillow-shaped soft diamond” form, cascading sloped arms, and a spaciously “cozy” cup-like shape — perched on a supporting wood-looking gallery.

 

Diamante Lounge, 360

International GOOD Design Award Winner

Early concept sketch


With solid surface arm caps.

With solid surface arm caps.

 
Includes occasional side and coffee tables.

Includes occasional coffee + side tables 3 sizes

 
 

Kwalu, Healthcare + Senior Living

Emarese Collection, Lounge + Tables

Emarese Lounge Series

The Emarese Lounge Series

International GOOD Design Award Winner

A petite scaled lounge collection that showcases a luxury hospitality appeal, the Emarese sports a sculptural barrel-shaped physique with graceful contours, delicate profiled arms, and a generously expressed supple seat.

A petite scaled lounge collection that showcases a luxury hospitality appeal, the Emarese sports a sculptural barrel-shaped physique with graceful contours, delicate profiled arms, and a generously expressed supple seat.

 
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Modern minimalistic. Coordinating occasional tables, 3 sizes

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Kwalu, Healthcare + EDU

Modena Collection, Lounge, Guest, + Tables

 
 
 
Modena Lounge + Guest Wait Seating

Lounge Chair

International GOOD Design Award Winner

For Innovation

The look of wood without the drawbacks, Kwalu’s classic wood-looking solid surface material gets ultimately challenged to best showcase that “material mimics can be equally as gorgeous.”

Incorporating modern gestures, the Modena Lounge Series is a sized-friendly seating collection that celebrates an elegant “chamfer-edged” wood-looking frame accompanied with a sweeping curved expressive clean-out, knife edged seat pan, and tapered wall-saver legs.     

 

 

Guest Seating

 
 

and, “whalla” - coordinating tables

To not compete with Modena’s Lounge + Guest tapered chamfered leg design, Ms. Hill designed tables to be “visually solid, simplistic,” with an beveled solid surface top edge, and plinth base.

 

Kwalu, Healthcare

Modena Collection, patient Chair + ottoman

 
 

Wall-saver leg

With Flex Back and ottoman


Kwalu, Healthcare

Riesi, Small Occassional Chair

Caveating a suspended barrel-shaped back that sports an airy peek-a-boo cutout, the Riesi is a dynamic play on eased triangle geometries, showcases a memorable side view, sports a generous seat pan, and expresses flared wall-saver legs. A lightweigh…

Caveating a suspended barrel-shaped back that sports an airy peek-a-boo cutout, the Riesi is a dynamic play on eased triangle geometries, showcases a memorable side view, sports a generous seat pan, and expresses flared wall-saver legs. A lightweight, petite lounge aesthetic, the Reisi partners well with larger lounge appeals.

 

IOA, Healthcare + Hospitality

Oliver Collection, Lounge + Tables

Direct and versatile, the Oliver Lounge + Table Series delivers international styling and universal appeal. High design meets high usage.

Designed on modular, integrated ottomans + tables can be added with any number or configurations of seats.

 
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A crowd favorite

3 Seater Lounge w/ Integrated Quarts Table Top

International GOOD Design Award Winner

GOLD + SILVER Design Excellence Awards

Mood Board

Mood Board

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IOA, Healthcare + Hospitality

Oliver Collection, Occasional + Tandem

Direct and versatile, the Oliver Tandem Series delivers international styling and universal appeal. High design meets high usage.

Designed on modular, integrated ottomans + tables can be added with any number or configurations of seats.

 

International GOOD Design Award Winner

GOLD Design Excellence Awards

 
 

Kwalu, Healthcare, EDU, + Senior Living

Terzo Nesting Table, All purpose

 

Designed to be an ultimately versatile “small perch” for today’s electronics and snacks, the hardworking Terzo Nesting Tables are clever mobile space savers, free of pointed edges, and perfect for any space and to complement any design style.

 

Knife edged solid surface top for added styling


Products: Soft Surfaces

Woven + Printed textiles

Tara is an internationally award-winning textile designer for healthcare, hospitality, corporate, and residential applications.

Her designs include working with agion, nylon, xorel, and natural fibers with solution dyes, digital print, and reactive dye technologies. 

 

Designtex, Healthcare + Hospitality

Josephine Collection, Woven Upholstery, Panel, + Drapery

 

GOLD Design Excellence Awards

100 sku Healthcare + Hospitality textile series. Inspired by Empress Josephine's Garden at Chateau de Malmaison of floral, trellises, and hand sketch work.

Woven solution dyed Agion + Nylon fibers. 


LDI Interiors, Healthcare + Hospitality 

Petite Florets, Non-Woven Upholstery

 

The first eco-friendly, digitally printed, intensive use TPE faux for healthcare and senior living. A delicate medium scaled botanical pattern for healthcare + hospitality. Is inspired by wispy poppy fields, silhouettes found in twilight nights, and romantic soft shades.

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Inspiration Mood Board

 

SILVER Design Excellence Awards


LittleFISH, Residential + Light Commercial

Hatamoto Series, Woven Upholstery + drapery

International GOOD Design Award Winner

GOLD Design Excellence Awards

 

Inspired by the East, a focus on graphic connotations of nature, dynamic color blocking, silhouettes, and line.


LittleFISH, Residential + Light Commercial

Dorian + Coco Series, Woven Upholstery + drapery

GOOD DESIGN recipient. SILVER Design Excellence Award, ASID. Inspired by a mixing of classic masculine (dandy) international apparel appeals and youthful chic, vintage, metropolitan female appeals.  

 

SILVER Design Excellence Awards

International GOOD Design Award Winner

LittleFISH, Residential + Light Commercial

Myrtles + Mint Julep  Series, Woven Upholstery + drapery

GOOD DESIGN recipient. Reactive dye printed, natural fibers. BRONZE Design Excellence Award, ASID. Inspired by motifs of the south interpreted in with modern twists.

 

BRONZE Design Excellence Awards

International GOOD Design Award Winner


Carnegie Xorel, Commercial

Axis + Genome, WOVEN UPHOLSTERY

 
A 2011 re-colorization of existing patterns. Palettes inspired by tailored menswear and Victorian hues.

A re-colorization of existing patterns. Palettes inspired by tailored menswear and Victorian hues.


Products: Hard Surfaces

Engineered Stone

Tara is an award-winning CMF hard surface designer with several dozen patterns in production.

Understanding quartz and solid surface industry: tooling machinery aspects along with distribution and stocking considerations, she works closely with executive teams, in-house engineers, marketing and logistical teams to prototype, finalize, and package designs. 

 

SILVER Design Excellence Awards

Hanstone Quartz, Strato

 

Hyundai L+C, Residential + Commercial

Hanstone Quartz, Engineered Stone

 

Patterns (left to right): Silhouette, Celestial, Rocky Shores, Smoke, Savoy, Artisan Grey, + Strato


LX Hausys US, Residential + Commercial

Viatera Quartz, Engineered Stone

 
Top row's 3 pattern designs Ms. Hill created to "celebrate imperfections" quartz's Breton technology inherently wants to produce. Designers love the designs and waste is dramatically reduced.

Designed prior to engineered stone’s “large movement” technology and with collaborations with Viatera’s Seoul Designer: Several pattern designs Ms. Hill created to "celebrate imperfections" quartz's technology inherently wants to produce. Manufacturer’s waste was dramatically reduced and designers loved the new designs.


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International Series

LG Viatera's Antique Limestone.

Viatera's Antique Limestone

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Tara re-organized Viatera's large sprawled collection of over 80 sku’s, eliminating some lost leaders, PLUS creating 25 new quartz designs - along with, re-packing all in smaller "boutique collections” with "lifestyle and product” story-lines.


DuPont, Healthcare and Wellness

Corian, Solid surface

For DuPont’s branded entry into Healthcare with a specialty “Healing Color Corian Collection,” Ms. Hill created “smaller earthen bound color categories” of biofilia-centric patterns to draw America’s top talented wellness firms and designers over to DuPont and to their North American distributers.

 
 

A small sampling.


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