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Spread across two tight, 46-square-metre floors, the Dublin clinic houses retail, storage and waiting areas on the lower level while the first floor encapsulates three treatment rooms, a toilet, staff room and secondary waiting area. It is a very small space, so we needed to be clever when designing the layout to get the absolute maximum use from the space, explained Lafferty. Every element is jigsawed together to double up, offering both functionality and beauty.
The interior of the arch is finished with terracotta-coloured tiles
Customers enter the clinic through a street-facing, pink-hued retail store with a micro cement floor and a curved wall lined with plaster tubes. According to Kingston Lafferty Design (KLD), these were designed to resemble putty and made from multiple layers of warm-toned plaster that were built up within a custom mould.
Interior design parners Becky Russell and Róisín Lafferty
In the world of interior design, creative pairings can be more than the sum of their parts. “Sometimes it’s as simple as having someone throw fresh eyes on a project,” says Becky Russell, interior designer and creative partner to Róisín Lafferty of Kingston Lafferty Design. “We come at things from a different perspective but we’re usually quite aligned about what the end result should be.”
Russell and Lafferty met in 2004. Both were interior design students at the Dublin Institute of Technology. “Within the first week of our degree, we knew we were going to be friends,” Lafferty says. After college, they stayed in touch. Lafferty set up KLD in 2010. Three years later, Russell came on board.
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Dublin interiors firm Kingston Lafferty Design has incorporated green walls, a yoga studio and rooftop terrace across the eight floors of this co-working office in the centre of Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Commissioned by property developer Magell, Kingston Lafferty Design (KLD) was asked to create warm and welcoming interiors for the 2,787-square-metre office called Urban HQ which breaks the traditional office mould.
Above: a custom pendant is suspended in the walnut-clad boardroom. Top image: green walls feature throughout the office
Informed by how the boundaries between work and leisure have become increasingly blurred in the past decade, the firm said it wanted the complex to provide workers and visitors with relaxed and informal spaces as well as areas for focused work.