Design for Gusto Barcelona

 Design for a Retail outlet on Dublin's Grafton Street of Spanish Brand Gusto Barcelona, with three brand variations each interpreting a different ambience - from 'Space Age', and 'Purple Haze' to 'Lighting Strike' - the variation in ambience created primarily by lighting, texture and graphics. The strong geometric lines of the merchandising modules are complimented by the wall and ceiling paneling and overall I think this a space with zones that will excite and interest the buying public.

The Vestry Restaurant - Redesign of Listed Church

A Listed Methodist Church in Dun Laoghaire, Dublin remodelled as a restaurant with additional first floor free-standing installation. The first floor is accessed by lift and stairs positioned either side of the central aisle. The first floor rests on structural corian-coated steel plinths, the design of which is abstracted from the neo-gothic windows.

Free-Standing first floor Installation

The Corian structural plinths are neon lit to add interest knit the design of other lighting elements together 

On the first floor mezzanine the bespoke furnishings derive their forms from the curving arches and windows while the chosen colours provide a bright warm contrast to the predominantly white render of the building.

The wall hangings add interest on both floors, the modern motifs adding a hint of edginess to the two spaces.

  

Jetsam Hotel Bedroom & Bathroom

Universal Design Jetsam Hotel Dun Laoghaire

This was an especially challenging task - to design the interior space of an existing contemporary building, as a 4 star hotel over five floors. The Port of Dun Laoghaire,its maritime history, its lightships and the organic and industrial debris washed up on its seashore provided inspiration for my design of the Jetsam Hotel. The Concrete piers, the granite upright stones on the promenade,the lichen and seaweed interspersed reappear in abstracted form in the forms,textures and materials I chose for Jetsam. I adapted and repeated a seaweed motif etched in glass as a screen separating a raised seating area in my restaurant Kish Dish. The stacked dinghys in Coal Harbour offered sinouus shapes to create a voided atrium and reception desk, while the elegant masts provided inspiration for my lighting installation which rises from the ground floor reception area through the atrium to the hotel lounge bar above. My concept in appropriating the rich textures and forms of the shore in Dun Laoghaire aims to marry an industrial ambience which respects the modernist tructure of the building with a luxurious modern, pared-back aesthetic that is as individual as its location.