TAYLOR MURPHY DESIGN
TAYLOR MURPHY - OWNER / DESIGN PRINCIPAL
Taylor Murphy Design is a full service commercial and residential interior design studio based out of Austin, Texas.
Within a given environment, both an appreciation of art and community collaboration is paramount when designing interior spaces. We enjoy cultivating a connection with clients through listening to their experiences, breathing life into their visions, and applying their unique interests to the design process. We believe good design serves to integrate daily living with personal stories, passions, and unique sensibilities to create authentic, functional space that reflects the client.
Our goal is to never underestimate the power of an emotional reaction to a space. We hope to harness that emotion to create the best version of your vision, and uncover a space that feels as if it was always there.
Taylor is constantly challenging himself with his varied aesthetic, and loves a design challenge. With his love of objects, history, and pop culture; coupled with his extensive background in fine art and hospitality design, Taylor is confident there is something alluring about every era of design. He is well versed in design history, and prides himself on offering a diverse portfolio aesthetic that shows off his knack for making the most intriguing version of any aesthetic. Taylor’s signature style and sensibility is a paired down textural base of materials that work to support a myriad of art and objects. His interest in the interplay of sculptural form against the space in which it lives is what excites him when thinking about a space. Taylor’s favorite past design decades are early 1960s and late 1970s, alongside the contemporary and ever changing landscape of design.
Taylor was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas and has remained in central Texas ever since. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin where he studied installation sculpture, which led him to interior and product design. Early in his career, Taylor worked on many of Austin and San Antonio’s favorite hospitality hot spots. Taylor founded Taylor Murphy Design in 2016, and Taylor Murphy Home shortly thereafter. Taylor, and his wife Alisha, made Austin their home in 2012, and have loved the combination of the fast paced, slow going lifestyle Austin has to offer. They have two children, William and Olivia that keep them quite busy.
TAYLOR MURPHY HOME
WALLPAPER | TEXTILE | ACCESSORIES
Taylor Murphy Home was launched to satisfy Taylor’s love for physically making and creating products that interact with people on a day to day basis. Taylor’s extensive background in fine art and hospitality design has fueled his love of utilizing different mediums to create our wallpaper prints and fabric offerings.
As an interior designer, Taylor is always looking for an opportunity to add a wash of color or interesting print that helps support some of the more storied spaces he is presented with. His prints and pieces are meant to add a contrasting element to any space, and create that artistic moment that so many spaces are missing.