Principal Meryl Hare has over 35 years-experience in design. She is a Fellow of the Design Institute of Australia and has received a DIA citation for services to the Design Industry. She was inducted into the DIA Hall of Fame in 2011, House & Garden Hall of Fame in 2018 and Belle Hall of Fame in 2021. In 2020 she was awarded the IDEA Gold Medal Award and was nominated as The Luminary at the 2022 INDE Awards. She was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in 2024 for her contribution to design.

Hare and Klein is a five-time winner of the Australian Interior Design Awards, among many other awards. The practice has also been selected for the prestigious Andrew Martin International Design Review in 17volumes, published by teNeues, as well as numerous publications. In 2021 she won the Australian Good Design Gold Award for Product Design for her design of the “Bridge Table’. Meryl has published three books all by Thames & Hudson.