John Rocha

D4 buyers get a lesson in downsizing their design baggage

At an average age of 54, buyers in the Lansdowne Place scheme come with plenty of worldly goods but the luxury scheme has engaged interiors expect Sara Cosgrove to help buyers adapt to their new surroundings

Sean O’Sullivan to be honoured at EY Entrepreneur of the Year awards

More than 1,500 business leaders to gather for annual ceremony in Dublin tonight

At home with the dark side

Interior designer Sara Cosgrove keeps things pale in her commercial work, but her Dún Laoghaire home features antique pieces and atmospheric shades

At home with salvage hunter Siobhan Burke

The Dubliner scours European cities to find vintage furniture for interiors back home

Morrison hotel serves up €1.5m dividend to Russia’s richest woman

Gross profit at Dublin hotel up more than 15 per cent last year as sales reach €12.2 million

The Mayo knitting factory that made jumpers for Japanese designer Kenzo

Turning Japanese: exhibition celebrates Irish and Japanese style and inspiration

Model Thalia Heffernan: ‘Rugs and I don’t get on. I tend to fall over them’

The 22-year-old, one of Ireland’s top models, on calming colours and her love of John Rocha

Pieces of me: Ruth Monaghan, florist

‘I dislike poinsettias and lilies – as all florists do – and the smell of lilies’

Fashion forward: Three Irish designers on surviving a tough industry

On being introduced to Anna Wintour as ‘here’s another one of our Irish talents’

Morrison hotel books hefty profit for its Russian owner

Hotel reports profit of more than €1.3m compared with just €28,000 a year earlier

Matthew Williamson: Big on Boho

The designer famed for his fantastical bohemian prints is expanding from fashion to furnishings

Denis O’Brien and Digicel biggest Irish donors to Clinton Foundation

Businessman and his mobile firm have donated between $10 million and $25 million

How to become an interior designer

It’s never too late – or too early – to think of a career in interior design. Just be prepared to work hard and for little or no reward until you become established

Denis O’Brien, the dossier and the spy who came into the Dáil

For months, Denis O’Brien has battled Dublin public affairs firm Red Flag in the High Court, claiming that an illegal conspiracy exists to damage him. But how did it come to this? Peter Murtagh explains a tortuous trail . . .

Stylish redesign in Ranelagh for €975,000

Four-bedroom redbrick designed by Aurora Aleson with a west-facing back yard

Precision and artistry on display at impressive NCAD fashion show

Level of craftsmanship, creativity and innovation at event shows potential of graduates

How to wear a woollen work of art

Knitwear designers have moved on from the traditional Aran sweater

Fashion: NCAD hit the graduate catwalk

The themes are rich and varied as NCAD students display materials and ideas

Irish Women of the World: Simone Rocha and eight other successes in style

To celebrate International Women's Day, we've found an outstanding bunch of Irish women whose influence is felt around the world. Meet the women who have risen to the top in international fashion

Pieces of me: Helen Steele, artist, fashion designer and printmaker

Helen Steele’s art, clothes and Monaghan home are all influenced by colour theory, graffiti art and the ‘joie de vivre of colour’

Paddy McKillen’s blend of wine and art in Provence

Developer and hotelier Paddy McKillen has turned an estate on 600 acres in the picturesque south of France into a biodynamic vineyard, and a unique art and architecture project in which well-known artists and sculptors are given creative rein

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