Sofa so good at half price
Luxe up your living room with Opulence, a low-slung statement sofa with deep button detailing available at DFS (dfs.ie) stores in Blanchardstown Retail Park (01-6404232) and Mahon Point (021-4359306), Cork. The couch is currently half price, reduced from €2,858 to €1,429, and comes in 11 colours (Cranberry pictured). The matching footstool, 36cm by 122cm by 61cm, is also half price at €495. These offers end October 7th.
Get this dresser for lesser
This Ashby Cotton painted dressing table, 109cm by 47cm by 78cm, is a smart piece of bedroom furniture. It comes with an oak or walnut top and is normally priced €269. The matching mirror, €89, and stool, €95, complete the look. Beechmount Furniture (046-9027066 beechmountfurniture.ie) in Beechmount Home Park, Navan, Co Meath, is offering Irish Times readers who present today's column 35 per cent off all three items, respectively €175, €62 and €58. These offers end October 2nd.
A touch of velvet on your floor
Add a nest-like feel to flooring with this 80 per cent wool carpet, True Velvet by Brintons, available in five fashion colours and reduced by 26 per cent at all branches of TC Matthews Carpets (tcmatthews.ie), City Quay, D2 (01-6729353); Stillorgan (01-2788770); Lucan (01-6212023) Walkinstown (01- 4600099); Dunleer (041-6851307); Navan (046-9066125) and Drogheda (041-9760200). The 4.572m (15ft) wide flooring is reduced from €61 to €44.95 per sq yd. Choose from nuanced neutrals plaster, noodle, space, gallery red or mouse (pictured). A second, similarly textured carpet, Majestic Velvet, in polished silver, gorgeous plum, almost green and plaster, is reduced 54 per cent from €101 to €45.
Prints charming – and they’re customisable too
Self-taught designer and new mum Sarah O'Callaghan has set up webshop Papier Prints (01-4434013 papier-prints.com), selling charming and customisable prints for newborns and nurseries. To celebrate the launch she's offering Irish Times readers 20 per cent off across her entire range. Normally €50, 20cm by 25cm, framed in a limed wood finish, Dream Big Little One (pictured) can be purchased for €40. The print, unframed but mounted, normally €25, can be bought for €20. Personalisation is an additional €5. This offer ends October 9th. Delivery nationwide is free until October 31st.
Trending: Malthouse Design Centre
The Malthouse Design Centre, a creative hub that launched several new Irish designers’ careers, is shutting its doors. Launched by Arthur Duff of Duff-Tisdall, the distillery building in which it is housed is being put up for sale today from 10am. The centre is selling off a selection of one-off pieces including lighting, occasional furniture, storage, tables and decorative pieces. Pictured is the Octo light, 54cm by 68cm, designed by Finnish lighting designer Seppo Koho using laminated birch. The bulb is contained in the closed top section creating a light-filled globe. It has a long flex, making is suitable for larger rooms or stairwells. Normally €693 it is being sold for €293. Successful “graduates” of the Malthouse Design Centre include textile designer Jennifer Slattery, who has just opened her namesake shop next door to fellow graduate, feltmaster Jamie Lewis, at The Old Butcher Studios, 72-74 Benburb Street, Dublin 7. The sale runs daily to 5pm and ends Sunday, October 5th.
3 of the Best: Glamour styles
Slovakian Nika Zupanc’s feminine collection for London label Sé (0044-207-6274282 se-london.com) includes Trophy, a ceramic ball lamp with a metallic interior, around €1,068, and Olympia, a ceramic-topped dressing-table made using lacquered iron or polished brass, around €9,901, with a pair of overlapping round mirrors. These high-end prices exclude Vat at 20 per cent, and delivery.
Schumacher’s rich brocades, damasks and bold prints are part of fashion history. The American brand has had a makeover, with 15 patterns updated. Serengeti (on the sofas), around €402 pm, and Gazelle aux Bois (on the screens), around €253 pm, are available atTurnelle and Gigon (0044-207-2597280 turnellandgigon.com) and to order through Cork-based Town and Country (022-46000/087-2364939 tandc.ie)
Don your glad rags and time travel back to the Roaring Twenties with this flapper-inspired Glamour wallpaper from Brighton-based Dupenny (0044- 7412-130230 dupenny.com), around €85 per roll – perfect for a boudoir, dressing-room or bathroom. Add extra wattage with after-dark sequin cushions, €16 each, available in silver or black, from Littlewoods Ireland (01- 8112222 littlewoodsireland.ie).
