Bargain Hunter

Fine dining – inside and out The summer sale at Roche Bobois (01-653 1650 roche-bobois.com), Beacon South Quarter, Dublin18, starts this Saturday, June 21st at 10am. There's 15 per cent off all new stock including this Madame O collection of dining chairs, €490, dining table, €1,160 and matching cocktail table, €950 that will work in and out of doors. These pieces, respectively €415, €986 and €805, during the sale are available to order only.

Cool metal

Best known for its contract fit-outs for offices, McCreery on Grand Canal Place, James Street, Dublin 8, is a treasure trove of cool designer furnishings including Italian design house Casamania (casamania.it). To celebrate Casamania’s 30th birthday McCreery is offering Irish Times readers who present today’s column 10 per cent off any of the Italian label’s 17 design reissues including the Marrakech stool by Ton Haas (pictured). The painted glavanised metal seat comes in five colours, red, yellow, green, white and black and two sizes. Normally €236 and €244, Irish Times readers can buy them reduced to €212 and €220. (01-4533952 mccreery.ie)

Wicker comfort

This five-piece piece wicker set comprises a table, 70cm by 70cm by 68 cm, and four chairs, each 58cm by 60cm by 90cm, that will fold into the smallest of garden sheds. Irish Times readers who present today’s column can buy it for a special introductory offer of €150, a reduction of 19 per cent off its recommended retail price, €185, from New Ross-based Culcita (051-422000 culcita.ie) in Co Wexford. The price includes delivery nationwide. Offer ends June 27th.

Egg-shaped wonder

Inspired by the egg, this Phillipine-woven San Marino Ovo is part of an eight-seat dining set reduced 28 per cent from €5,300 to €3,799 at Kilquade-based Outdoor Furniture (01-287 8404 outdoorfurniture.ie), Co

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. The chairs can also be purchased separately. Already reduced by 35 per cent from €691 to €449, on presentation of today’s column Irish Times readers can buy them for €379, a further 15 per cent off.

Luxurious Lenny chairs

The curves of this Lenny chair by Spanish brand Fama will make a statement in any contemporary living room. It is available in leather and fabric options and is reduced by 15 per cent, the former from €1,149 to €975, the series six fabric option from €999 to €849 at Frank McGowan(01-870 6100 frankmcgowan.com) Unit 17, Airside Retail Park, Swords, Co Dublin. The chair can be ordered in 30 different leathers and 100 different fabrics at the reduced prices until July 19th.

Take 3 ...True blues
Californian-based Irish American artist Graham Keegan (grahamkeegan.com) is fixing on the colour indig. He's offering fellow Californians the chance to adopt some of his seedlings so that they can realise that "colour can be grown". Tig Mays of Monkstown-based Howbert and Mays (01-202 0027 howbertandmays.ie) says you'll be waiting two years to get any dye from such seeds but can source indigo plants, Baptisia Australis, from €9.95. Then you can watch Keegan's DIY classes online or find a dye tutorial on YouTube to get creative with the colour.

Why not give old garden furniture the blues with a paintover? Cuprinol's (cuprinol.ie) Garden Shades come in 73 different colours including this ice blue Winter Well (€28 for 2½ litres)''.

The latest colour in Annie Sloan's extensive chalk paint colour chart is Napoleonic Blue, a shade as intense as its namesake leader. Available from August from stockists (anniesloan.com) one litre will cost €27.95 for per litre and a 100ml tester pot costs €8.

Trending . . . reflections Architects Angus Ritchie and Daniel Tyler created this lookout as part of their final year thesis on Advanced Architectural Design at Scotland's Strathclyde University. The mirrored project is architecture at its best, and both frames and reflects the surrounding scenery. They clad a simple timber construction in mirrored stainless steel that was laminated to birch ply sheets. The project was part of the Scottish Scenic Routes Initiative in conjunction with the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park and funded by the Scottish Government. Might our OPW be tempted to invite the design duo to design a similar project here – for the Phoenix Park maybe?