Porcelain Scots tiles get our vote
These Scot tiles (above) are decorative enough to use in a living room or bedroom; something American potter turned lifestyle merchant Jonathan Adler has used with aplomb in his homes. The rectangular Italian porcelain tiles, 15cm by 90cm, come in a veined mid grey or white. Normally €94.96 per sq m they’re €56.98psm at TileStyle (01-855 5200, tilestyle.ie) Ballymount Retail Centre, Ballymount Road, Dublin 24.
Fruit bowl is apple of Ireland’s eye
Jenny Walsh Design (086 877 3293, jennywalshdesign.com), best known for her word-play laser-cut clocks in the physical shape of a grandfather and of a cuckoo, has expanded her collection to include a new range of lighting made from individually cut layers of cardboard hand glued to create organic, soft rippled patterns. This interlocked plywood stacked fruit bowl has a distinctive and familiar shape: the island of Ireland. Stock with native autumnal apples. The bowl normally costs €55 but Irish Times readers can buy this and any of Walsh’s new lighting at a 10 per cent discount at her online shop. Offer ends September 25th.
New range of mirrors with sleek, Danish design
Danish designer Lene Bjerre’s (lenebjerre.com) new collection has just hit Co Kildare-based The Elms (045 876060, theelms.ie) at the Watch House Crossroads, Punchestown, Naas. To celebrate they’re offering Irish Times readers 15 per cent off the entire new range of mirrors, many of which are pictured here and range from €37 to €458.
The reduction means that the Mina painted grey wood mirror to the fore, 62cm by 72cm, is €53 instead of its usual price of €62.
The smaller Mina next to it, painted white, 42cm by 52cm, costs €31 instead of €37 and the long version of the same Mina style next to it, also in grey, 55cm by 160cm, can be bought for €147 instead of €172.50.
Time for price cuts at Karl’s
A smart way to update a room is with a wall clock. This domed glass design, 68cm by 5cm by 68cm, has been reduced from €109 to €79 at Karl's Furniture (karlsfurniture.ie, 01-6260600) on Kylemore Road, Dublin.
Also reduced is an aluminium deer head down from €129 to €79, an antique-style grey mirror, 64cm by 5cm by 94cm, with shutters you can close to conceal the mirror, reduced 25 per cent from €199 to €149.
Trending . . . Irish design
Weathering is a selling exhibition featuring the cream of Irish design as selected by the Design and Crafts Council of Ireland. It opens today at London Design Festival (dccoi.ie/weathering) and runs until September 21st. It features household names like Derek Wilson ceramics, Molloy and Sons textiles and Joe Hogan basketry. Items to buy include slickly simple tripod floor lamps by Benny Magennis for The Local Maker Company, jewellery boxes by mechanical engineer turned product designer Cillian Ó Súilleabháin and the Brace chair, which is a bleached and limed oak seat, 90.2cm by 39.3cm by 50cm, that is a deceptively simple looking design taking inspiration from Irish vernacular furniture. Made by Tierney Haines Architects it is a prototype and not for sale but given that Stephen Tierney has already designed furniture for private commissions, as well as online behemoth Made.com, this is one chair you can expect to see more of at a later date.
Three of the best . . . bedroom chairs
A bedroom chair can be used to drape garments or to lounge on and can make small spaces look bigger. This duck-egg blue cotton and piped design by Nordic House costs €282 (nordichouse.co.uk 0044-1872223220)
The Evreux Chair, from the Urban Mid Century collection by US-based French Heritage (frenchheritage.com), is a mahogany chair with a touch of Hollywood Regency in its decorative back. The chair costs about €756.
The Stockholm Easy is a velvet upholstered swivel chair, 77 cm by 67cm by 51cm, that comes in canary yellow or emerald green. Priced €300 it is one of Ikea’s (ikea.ie) new season designs.
