POSTER PERFECT: Anne Elizabeth and John Rodgers met while studying art history in Savannah, Georgia. She is from the US, he is Irish, and last November they opened a gallery to sell vintage posters.
Rodgers is "addicted to French movie posters" but also sells travel, film, music, tobacco and alcohol images. Prices range from €40 to €4,000, but most cost €300-€400. Noel Tolmar designed the 1940s French poster pictured above. It costs €960 and measures 51x70cm. Gallery 29, 29 Molesworth Street, Dublin 2 (01-6425784).
SINK LIKE A STONE
The word "texture" is a common one in interiors magazines nowadays, and concrete is a textural as it gets. When used properly, it looks not brutal or austere, but luxurious. And in domestic bathrooms, the ceramic or limestone bowl sink is out. Antica, the stone specialist company, has recently started to sell rectangular polished cement sinks and shower trays in grey, white or red tints, at prices that are not low but not unattainable either, starting at about €1,250 plus VAT. Antica The Stone Gallery, Earlscourt Industrial Estate, Beaumount Avenue, Churchtown, Dublin 14 (01-2960136), www.antica.ie.
SHOW HOUSE
Maud Hendricks is from the Netherlands but lives with her Irish husband and their baby in a redbrick house in Dublin 8, where she sells furniture and other bits and pieces from the family home. Visitors are free to potter around the house and see what takes their fancy. "There's a bit of everything," says Hendricks. It's a place not for hardcore modernists but for those who like a traditional feel. Some pieces are antique, others newly made. One room, for example, has a few wardrobes with a farmhouse look, on top of which are placed various types of chairs: wicker, velvet, fabric-covered and painted. Make sure you also see the shed in the garden and the lock-up across the street, both of which are crammed with pieces. In particular, if you don't want fitted units in a kitchen, and prefer freestanding furniture, this is a place to visit. Check out the website first: www.touchwood.ie. Touchwood, 35 Hamilton Street, off South Circular Road, Dublin 8 (01-4539711).