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"An experience not to be missed" is how one visitor described the recent "Interiors" exhibition at the Crafts Council of Ireland Gallery in Dublin. Others found it "super, excellent, interesting", and demanded more such "out of this world" exhibitions. Some 7,000 people visited the exhibition and sales were brisk in these "rooms without a view" as they were described by "Social and Personal" magazine.
It was an exhibition that gave a
bedsit and the third architect
new impetus to craft
Sean O'Laoire a home office.
exhibitions. At the opening it appeared as if the entire
The project involved a huge
invitation list had turned up.
amount of preparation includ-
The media, from the Gerry
ing building an interior structur-
Ryan show to the Irish Times
al shell within the gallery on
and Social and Personal, could
which to build the rooms. All
not get enough of this creation
involved worked around the
of five room set interiors.
clock right up until the last minute when the show opened.
Five people were chosen to
This resulted in an exhibition for
create the bedsit, hotel lobby,
which the co-ordinator Anya
Cabinet by Gerry A\organ,
home office, the bedroom and
von Gosseln deserves great
Chair Simon O 'Driscoll
bathroom, none of whom were
praise. Without her it would not
as accessible (both aesthetically
interior designers. The five were
have been possible.
and in price) as their factory
The Home Office - designed by Sean O'Laoire.
Shay Healy, the composer and
manufactured equivalents, and
broadcaster, who was asked to
This achievement stimulated the
that they can be commissioned
decorate a bedroom. Robert
imagination of all those who
or purchased just as easily. Any
O'Byrne, columnist, who was
attended the exhibitions. It
maker or client interested in
assigned to design a bathroom,
focused makers on the
further information about
the architect Alfred Cochrane
environments in which their work
commissioning should contact
designed a hotel lobby, with
is housed. It also focused clients
Siobhan McDonald at the
Rachael Chidlow creating a
on the fact that craft objects are
Dublin gallery.