 "Marge, there's an empty spot I've always had inside me. I tried to fill it with family, religion, community service, but those were dead ends! I think this chair is the answer".
- Homer Simpson
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The comfort of the Bricks & Mortar sofa
contrasts with the perceived hardness
of the brick motif. A typically witty design by
British artist Richard Woods and
designer Sebastian Wrong.
Price on application
www.establishedandsons.com
www.lostweekend.ie
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Skilled hand painting and upholstery
reinvigorates the Phoenix Chair by furniture
surface specialist Gary Brown.
Hover your mouse over the image
to view its original condition.
Price on application
www.handpaintedkitchens.ie
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Minima's Flexform Happy chair's extra-deep seat offers stylish comfort helped by firm upholstery set against a flexible back.
Price on application
www.minima.ie
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Tiernan Roe's Ogham chair is ergonomically
designed for maxiumum back support and
comfort. Each chair is then etched with the
owner's name in ancient Irish Ogham lettering.
This one spells "Sarah".
Price: €2,800 for four
www.tiernanroe.blogspot.com
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The Eleanora chair comes in a large range of
leather and fabrics to clothe legs that bear resemblance to 1970s bell-bottomed trousers.
Price: approx. €600
www.bellissima.ie |
Colin O'Dowd brings us the Rokker,
a contemporary reworking of the
traditional rocking chair,
made from metal wire.
Price on application.
www.colinodowd.com |
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Italian design house Creazioni takes a
rococo style chair and gives it a contemporary interpretation using a Pop Art inspired
upholstery fabric.
Price on application.
www.bellissima.ie |
Hazelwood chairs by Alison Ospina are
characterised by textured organic surfaces.
She allows the greenwood gathered from
the woodland floor to inform the shape
the chair will take.
Price: from €95
www.greenwoodchairs.com |
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A pair of 1930s Italian chairs is upholstered
in a vibrant African-style print with contrasting
piping, from Aiveen Daly's Vintage Collection.
Price: approx €1,600 per pair
www.aiveendaly.com |
Comforting quilted wool is wrapped
around the Memory chair whose arms
invite you to come and sit and be hugged.
Price: €6,180
www.normann-copenhagen.com
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The creative worlds of design and writing
have collided spectacularly to make a new
design for Arne Jacobsen's iconic Egg chair
(1958). It marks the publication of the sixth
book in the famous "The Hitchhikers Guide
to the Galaxy " series entitled, "......And
Another Thing", written by Irish author Eoin Colfer, and in which the Egg chair features.
Wexford-based design consultancy
Lost Weekend teamed up with Colfer
and Danish design company Fritz Hansen
to design this limited edition chair.
Price: €15,000
www.lostweekend.ie
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Furniture designers Tadhg and Simon
O'Driscoll's simple but distinctive designs
combine quality natural and man-made
materials in pieces such as the Zoon chair.
Price on application
www.oddesign.com
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