House Proud: Wedding presents

Give a gift of a lifetime from luxurious bed linen to a bone-handled carving set

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The Wedding Shop (016619045 weddingshop.ie) at 19 Clare Street is housed in a beautiful Georgian building and carries a range of beautiful tableware including Missoni and Royal Copenhagen, luxurious bed linen and lot of other items you never thought you needed including a Zig Zag dinner service by Missoni, prices start from €47 or a Flora dinner service by Royal Copenhagen, prices start from €44.

The shop is offering Irish Times readers who mention today’s column 10 per cent off all guest purchases by phone on any of its active wedding lists. This offer ends June 16th.

The Irish Design Shop (016798871 irishdesignshop.com) has some lovely wedding gift ideas including this merino and cashmere blanket by Tipperary mill John Hanly & Company who make cloth for Polo, Ralph Lauren and Barneys, New York and Liberty of London. Normally €120, Irish Times readers who present today’s column can buy it less 10 per cent. The nautical stripe design will work well as a picnic blanket in summer and as an extra layer on the sofa while gorging on box sets in winter. Offer ends June 16th

Adam’s (016760261 adams.ie) At Home catalogue includes some lovely buys from a bone-handled carving set, €30-€50, giltwood mirrors whose reserves start from €300, Chinese school oil on glass panels, €300-€400, and, if the sky is the limit, there’s a pair of Quing dynasty Chinese export porcelain cranes with enamel with a reserve of €3,000-€4000. The auction takes place on Sunday.

Designist (014758534 designist.ie) has launched a wedding list service that includes this cool contemporary everyday range Olio by Barber & Osgerby. It includes a bowl, €50; jug, €35, creamer set, €65; platter, €50; wood platter, €62.50 and cutlery set, €110. The South Great George’s Street shop is offering 10 per cent off this range to Irish Times readers who present today’s column. Offer ends June 16th.

“For what died the sons of Róisín?” asks Fergus O’Neill, the man, who during the recession, helped up keep a sense of perspective with his Grand Grand (01 516 6196 grandgrand.ie) series of mugs, tea towels and posters. His new enterprise is a giclée print of the Ballymun towers, which, he notes were named after the signatories of the Proclamation; Clarke, Mac Dermott, Mac Donagh, Pearse, Ceannt, Connolly and Plunkett. “I thought the notion of the seven towers in Ballymun and the shadows cast by the ‘towers’ of the proclamation was a good image for the centenary year,” he explains.

The towers were built in 1966 and the last of them were demolished in 2015, as the curtain was lifting on our centenary year 1916. The print is of Plunkett tower, the last Ballymun high-rise block to be knocked. It costs €45 unframed and €150 framed.

Thu Jun 09 2016 - 06:00

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