One of Tara Benet Design’s stagings was featured in Working Mother’s list of the best ways to create calm, serene spaces for recharging inside one’s home. The example living room features a range of fabrics and finishes aimed at providing comfortable places to rest as well as a variety of textures and materials that can help wake up the senses after a day spent starting at a computer screen. From throw pillows featuring a range of textured covers to the fur rug, leather poufs, and smooth glass tabletops, the living room hides a restorative tactile journey just below its surface.

Last year, a couple in Kips Bay tapped interior designer Tara Benet to help them update their aging living room. The home, perched in an I.M. Pei- and S.J. Kessler-designed tower, featured sweeping Manhattan views and a grand proportion that were being smothered beneath a decades-old, cluttered interior scheme. Benet’s painterly eye and the clients’ modern taste led to a fresh look for the space, replacing old leather loveseats and track lighting with elegant Roche Bobois sofas and two unique chandeliers, and using simple hints of color to accentuate rather than smother the panoramic views and ample natural light provided by the room’s oversized windows.

Asked to fill the expansive interior of a seven-bedroom, eight-bath townhouse in Manhattan’s stylish Chelsea neighborhood, interior designer Tara Benet set about creating a series of discrete spaces that come together to create a home. The spacious baths were an area of special focus, including the master suite that takes up the entire third floor and was designed to feel a sanctuary—clad in sumptuous white marble with tree-lined streets just beyond the windows. Benet selected high-end fixtures from Franz Viegener to tie the baths together, bringing the touch of elegance to every polished handle, mirrored tub filler, and rain shower.

Interior designer Tara Benet made a name for herself by curating tight spaces around Manhattan, and Trendir featured one of her living room designs on its list of inspirational living room design ideas. Benet’s eye for color extends to her use of whites in small areas to reflect natural light and preserve clean lines to keep down clutter. Of course, picking which white is where Benet’s training as a painter comes in: Whether it’s a shade of blue or a touch of orange, Benet’s ability to find the right hue to complement a home’s flooring or window layout is just one of the many skills that puts her at the top of the interior design field.

In the past, design trends tended to wash over the interior design profession, resulting in similar-looking homes that needed regular renovations to remain in vogue. Nowadays, though, the schools of minimalism and maximalism have become just more colors on designers’ palettes, and no one captures this better than interior designer Tara Benet. Her painter’s eye gives her an editorial style that elevates her creations above mere minimalism into a space where form meets function and nothing is wasted. Her work on living rooms in glass-box apartments in New York City is iconic for her use of neutral palettes that accentuate city views while pops of color keep the interior from disappearing entirely.

Tara Benet Design made Home & Living Magazines’ list of top New York interior designers, putting her in an elite category in her field. The firm’s entry notes that, as a painter, Benet brings an artist’s eye to her interior design work, evoking “a dream-like quality” with her use of colors on top of a formalist’s dedication to minimalism. Whether they’re updating a classic or creating from scratch in a new-construction home, Tara Benet Design specializes in bringing grace and color to luxurious spaces in New York’s top neighborhoods. Her firm’s carefully considered residences and welcoming lobbies are being enjoyed from the Upper East Side to Williamsburg.

B&B Italia interviewed interior designer Tara Benet, who serves as the visual stylist for the luxury furniture brand’s North American showrooms, to ask how she’s been handling the shift to working from home. “My job is very hands-on and I am used to working within the space I am designing,” said Benet, who now shares her home workspace with her husband. Despite being forced to use software to create her designs due to social distancing requirements, her wealth of experience has given Benet a good sense of proportion, which, combined with her intimate knowledge of the products she sources for clients, gives her a lot of confidence about the spaces she’s designing remotely.

Realtor.com highlighted one of Tara Benet Design’s interiors to showcase the firm’s use of varied textures to create lavish home decor schemes. Interior designer Tara Benet brings her artist’s eye to every space she creates, and she populates her minimalist interiors with carefully considered pops of color and texture that bring a rich depth to the smallest detail. Take, for example, the pair of leather poufs beside the white fur throw rug; it’s a classic pairing that adds both color and tactility to the space without taking over the neutral palette that catches and reflects the sunlight pouring through the room’s oversized windows.

A striking building like 56 Leonard deserves equally impressive interiors, which is why Tara Benet Design was tapped to bring life to the building’s model home. Benet paid homage to the building’s charm with classic pieces like the Eames Chair, bringing in wood and leather textures to contrast against the structural concrete columns that punctuate sheets of floor-to-ceiling glass. Benet’s signature use of varied textures and bursts of color keeps the eye focused on the cityscape outside while creating an interior that is light and airy as well as sophisticated and modern.

Interior designer Tara Benet brings an aesthetic developed during her career as a painter to her interior work, creating modern spaces decked out in rich textures and dotted with tastefully colorful details. One of Benet’s most important tools is her vast knowledge of furniture manufacturers and brokers, allowing her to create unique combinations that redefine the spaces they fill. Take, for example, her placement of the angular, light-bending metallic Bowery Table from Desiron in a brick-lined dining room. With the simple choice of a table, Benet created a miniature history of industrial textures, bringing together steel and brick against the natural hardwood flooring.