{"id":29688,"date":"2024-08-22T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T08:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/muse.international\/?p=29688"},"modified":"2025-03-19T01:35:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T01:35:53","slug":"interview-with-tajal-rutherford-bhatt-principal-director-of-tp-bennett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/muse.international\/index\/interview-with-tajal-rutherford-bhatt-principal-director-of-tp-bennett\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Tajal Rutherford Bhatt | The Principal Director of tp bennett with 20 Years of Global Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tajal is an interior designer with over twenty years of experience. Working across a range of sectors in the UK and internationally. She has designed and delivered schemes for leading brands and institutions including the successful Capital Group London HQ. Marsh McLennan\u2019s UK headquarters, and the award-winning VitrA showroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tajal Q1<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hi, I\u2019m Tajal a Principal Director and interior designer. I joined tp bennett as a graduate in 2004 and since then have played an active role in the growth and evolution of the practice\u2019s interiors studio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Experienced working across a range of sectors in the UK and internationally, designing and delivering schemes for leading brands and institutions including Capital Group\u2019s London HQ in the Renzo Piano designed Paddington Cube, the refurbishment and transformation of global professional services firm Marsh McLennan\u2019s UcK headquarters, and the award-winning VitrA showroom in Clerkenwell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am a champion of tp bennett\u2019s social value priorities, advocating the positive effect excellent design can have for communities. Additionally, I sit on the board of Impact Dance, a Hip-Hop and Street Dance Academy for 11\u201319-year-olds. Having delivered a high-quality environment that supports and nurtures their youth development program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Q2<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

My Mum has always been a very creative person and I was surrounded by it from a young age. I grew up in a flower shop which initiated my understanding of the power of colour, composition, and proportions. On a family trip to New York when I was 16, I picked up an interior design magazine and the rest is history!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Q3<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

tp bennett is an independent architectural, design, and planning practice, owned and managed in the UK with a strong international presence. Our expertise spans every aspect of architectural design including planning, strategy, and interiors, and we have enormous resilience to match our passion. We value diversity in every sense: in our workforce, company culture, client base, and projects \u2013 and freedom of thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We like to think of ourselves as a design democracy. A studio-based practice with multiple skills, everyone has a voice at tp bennett. As agenda-setters in the world of workplace culture, we ensure that our workplace sets standards of well-being and enjoyment. We work in the spirit of collaboration, design excellence, and fun. We are ambitious for you as well as for us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a Principal Director, I sit on the board making strategic decisions for the practice. I run a busy studio of designers working alongside our clients to deliver bespoke environments that respond to and challenge briefs, offering insightful and purposeful leadership in the creation of sustainable environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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