Power dressing has taken hold of Irish Design Shop!

High powered business meetings have been held with our existing and new designers to secure deals on new products.

Over the coming weeks expect to see new work from Heather Finn, Sinead Lough and Laura de Burca, and from new designers Paget Scott-Mc Carthy and Farrell & Chase.

If the phone ever stops ringing Clare and Laura might get a chance to make some new jewellery too!

Since the launch of our premises on March 13^th, we have been continuing our work on the building and researching new designers and features for the website.

A new feature has been added, a video of ceramicist Ulrika Holmquist casting one of her sweet bowls (which can be bought through the store). Ulrika is just one of the new designers we will be introducing over the coming months. We will also have new stock arriving from our current designers.

Now that we have settled into our new and improved workshop, we have finally started work on our new collections which will be available online soon. The new space has also been a great venue for the jewellery evening classes we…

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A new addition to the store is work by Ulrika Holmquist. Borrowing the techniques of mass-production, she creates bold, bright and playful ceramics in her Rathmines studio. Ulrika was born in Sodertalje, south of Stockholm, Sweden in October 1966. After working for five years in the printing business she came to Ireland in 1990, to practice her English and get used to the idea of travelling by herself, and has been here ever since. When her daughter turned two, Ulrika decided to take up a ceramics evening class, as a hobby. The ceramics teacher convinced her to do the portfolio course they ran there too, and so, she ended up applying to colleges, and was accepted in to the ceramics…

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