Two Delightful Irish Interiors Shops

June 16, 2015

Hello, friends! How’s your Tuesday going? Mine is remarkbly better than my Monday, which was spent mostly in bed fighting a stomach bug for the first time in about six years. Give me a cold any day, that’s for sure!

Thankfully, I’m on the mend and am back at my computer and back to work. Day late, dollar short, but full of posts for you all! Let’s start the week with a little fun news, yeah? I had a few bylines in the Irish Independent Weekend Magazine on Saturday, which was quite fun. I wrote two different pieces, the first a feature on four women shop-owners in Dublin. You can read the online version here and scroll through the nice little slideshow with photographs from Joanne Murphy.

The second piece was a little interiors tips-and-tricks bit. With Father’s Day coming up this weekend, we featured some masculine style inspiration (no link to that one, sorry!). But the really fun part is that I’ll be taking on that interiors feature every week for the foreseeable future! So if you’re in Dublin on Saturdays, you can pick up a copy and have a read. I’m very excited!

And now, a little glimpse into two of the shops because I happen to have eleventy-million photos of them on my computer. We’re going to take a peek at Dust and April & The Bear, two Irish interiors shops (well, A&TB is a pop-up shop at the moment but is typically an online shop) that give you such a good sense of what the pieces will look like in your home. I find that so helpful!

So first, April & The Bear (and the first image in this post, too!). Located until the middle of July at 5 Dame Lane, Dublin 2.

Siobhan’s brother, Vincent, was in the shop last Saturday demonstrating how he makes the molds for his ceramic (I think?) pieces. His attention to detail was enviable. He was carving out each and every little tiny feather on that sqawking bird! He also made the giant T-Rex bust hanging in the shop. Such talent!

And now, our second in this little Irish interiors shop tour, Dust.

I have to point out the stair backings (what is the word for that part of the stair? no amount of Googling seems to locate it for me…)? Swimmers! Love it.

They also sell silk flowers and arrangements. Both shops stock a range of Irish and international brands, and both stock quirky pieces you wouldn’t find elsewhere in Dublin. Both delightful and both worth a browse!