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.
Kwalu, Healthcare + EDU
Diamante Collection, Lounge + Tables
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.
Kwalu, Healthcare + Senior Living
Emarese Collection, Lounge + Tables
Modern minimalistic. Coordinating occasional tables, 3 sizes
Kwalu, Healthcare + EDU
Modena Collection, Lounge, Guest, + Tables
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
Kwalu, Healthcare
Riesi, Small Occassional Chair
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.
3 Seater Lounge w/ Integrated Quarts Table Top
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.
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
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.
LittleFISH, Residential + Light Commercial
Hatamoto Series, Woven Upholstery + drapery
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.
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.
Carnegie Xorel, Commercial
Axis + Genome, WOVEN UPHOLSTERY
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.
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
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.
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.