ICO Leader Katherine Hunka
Reaction to this diverse online series has been every bit as strong as the first series and has enabled the Irish Chamber Orchestra to collaborate with more art forms including mime, marine film, and illustration.
This final episode ETERNAL BLOOMS is a four-part tapestry with Limerick-based Illustrator and Printmaker Eva Byrne, ICO Leader Katherine Hunka, Guitarist Jimmy Smyth and Film Editor, Dominik Kosicki.
Eva’s inspiration for ETERNAL BLOOMS came from the transient beauty of wildflowers, short-lived when plucked. As her daughter Polly struggles with the fading beauty of the flowers she picks daily for her mother, Eva captures this memory forever for her in her artwork.
Rethinking small spaces for work-from-home lives Making every centimetre count: ‘Even changing the way a door swings can make a big difference’
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“Every centimetre counts in an apartment,” says architect Eva Byrne. “But just a few small tweaks can make great improvements.”
When she was commissioned to make this apartment in Dartry, Dublin 6, suitable for renting, Byrne first thought about storage and then thought: “Hang on a minute, people are working from home.” In a two-bed rental property this could mean four young adults needing desk space.
So both bedrooms – one on the lower floor and one upstairs – lost their doors into the bathrooms, leaving the latter accessible only from landings. “I don’t like bathrooms with two doors,” says Byrne. In this case they were “pretending to be en suites too and dictating where the bed was”. In one bedroom the door to the bathroom wiped out that wall space, which had two doors on it. T
42 incredible gifts that’ll capture your 4-year-old’s imagination TODAY 3/22/2021 Lisa Tolin and Alicia Tan
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