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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.


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