Tamara Magel is an award-winning, international designer whose practice spans from New York City, the Hamptons and Westchester to Palm Beach, Florida. Her modern aesthetic utilizes fine finishes that interplay with organic elements and artisanal detail, in addition to carefully and intentionally balancing energy flow with furniture placement. She has an intuitive sense of design that goes beyond what the eye sees and taps into how a space impacts the physical and emotional body. 

Tamara offers full consultancy from design/build projects to interior restorations of all shapes and sizes. Her diverse portfolio includes sprawling coastal retreats, classic country residences and chic metropolitan apartments. She creates personalized interiors that gracefully balance space, light and proportion, all layered with textural fabrics, custom finishes and various elements, both refined and rough-hewn. Tamara’s interiors evoke the enduring character of fine European country manors, which exude a warm vitality and energy.

Tamara established her namesake interior design studio in 2000 after a successful career in finance, working at such firms as Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Sotheby’s. In 2011, she launched a showroom in New York’s Soho district, showcasing her custom furnishings, as well as her paint and bedding collections. Her beautifully created spaces have been featured in Architectural Digest, Elle Decor, The New York Times, Hamptons Cottages & Gardens and Lonny magazines, among many other publications.   View press section