24/08/2009 by IDS
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New to Irish design shop this month are lovely printed cushions from dark dog studio in Cork. They are available to purchase online or from our shop on Bow Lane east. Dark dog also produce laptop bags which we are expecting this week.
Some of you will have noticed we have updated our features section to include slide shows from our various visits around the country. Our latest feature shows Liz Nilsson in her Dublin studio. We have plenty of other features in the pipeline which will be updated regularly.
Finally, we have begun planning for ‘Culture Night’ which takes place on the 25th of September. We will be open till midnight with lots of fun things happening! When we have finalised our plan for the evening we will post another update.
Liz Nilsson is a Swedish born designer-maker. She has practiced in the field of art and design for the last twenty years in Sweden, the UK and Ireland.
Liz works from her beautiful studio on Kenilworth Square in Dublin.
where you get inspiration?
Influenced by my Scandinavian roots. I like simplicity and clarity. I often use geometric shapes such as circles and ovals. Handwriting is another thing that fascinates me and that re-occurs and in my work. Hand writing is like drawing, an individual mark making.
My background is as a textile artist and designer. I was born in Sweden. I studied fine art and textile design in Sweden and later went on to do a Masters Degree in textile…
15/08/2009 by IDS
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Irish design shop has come over all romantic this week! We have just launched a new jewellery class ‘make your own wedding rings’. All details are outlined on the above flier. We are limiting the numbers to one couple per weekend. We will lay on lunch both days, take photos of the couples progress and celebrate the completion of their wedding rings over a glass of champagne!
For more details, give us a call on 01 4752222, or just drop us an email.
For anyone thinking of tying the knot we recommend you check out http://www.wearethemastersons.com which is a fantastic new site set up by friends of Irish design shop. They specialise in wedding photography but also do portraits and other…
10/08/2009 by IDS
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It seems renovation work is catching on Bow lane east. our neighbour, while in the process of clearing out his premises offered us a few planks of wood. we immediately saw the potential to build a half wall within the shop with this discarded wood! with such a construction, nice heavy planks are preferable as the framework needs to be sturdy enough for the wall to be supported. what we thought would be a simple project ended up like a frustrating jigsaw puzzle, involving cutting bits of wood and attaching it to what we could find to form the desired height of the walls. the corners were the most confusing, but as always we persevered!we had visions of it becoming a version of the dodgy…
5/08/2009 by IDS
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Last Thursday morning the builders arrived to install our fancy new studio entrance and first floor window!
the weather can now throw anything our way and we will remain leak and damp free!
(this is our theory anyway, and our fingers remain crossed)
Renovations have dragged into week four, but the end is in sight! we will be putting up more pictures in the coming days,
including our ladder dance and how to construct a wall out of a pile of old rubbish.
