Irish Design Shop

I love The Irish Design Shop as I think everything they stock is well considered and of a really high quality. They have a wide range of products from homeware to books and beautiful works of art. It’s a small shop and unlike a lot of small Irish shops is not packed to the roof with stuff. Everything is very well laid out and it is nearly like a little gallery. They have a really nice range of alternative Irish crafts and most of them are not what you would think of as traditional Irish things.
The books range they have is great with some really different titles about the history of Dublin. I want to buy all of these !!! My favourite thing is the art — they have some beautiful drawings of Irish nature like birds and foxes and have some very cool laser cut pictures of Dublin landmarks like the Ha’penny bridge and the big chimneys. If I ever leave Dublin I will be taking some of these back to Brazil with me.
I met the owners at a Unilocal event last year and they are really great and promote Irish craft really well and in a non-​cheesy «Oirish» way — #DublinShopsLocal

Irish Design Shop is a great spot for shopping for prezzies or for yourself. I’ve featured it on my blog and in free-​lance work in the past but hadn’t been in a while so it was great to revisit on Unilocal #DublinDesignNight — the shop was open and featured their newest collections focusing on Ireland — upstairs you could visit the workshop, a place where workshops take place and where you can design and make your own jewellery — check out their website for the full details. In the heart of the creative quarter Irish Design Shop is a must visit

This is a lovely little shop which is fab for stylish/​crafty gifts at a variety of different price points. I’m not sure if their stock is exclusively from Irish designers, but I would hope so, given the name!
They have wonderful pottery, books, prints and cards I want to wallpaper my flat with and various woven goods. They feel they could do with sourcing a wider variety of products, but given the space I think there’s a nicely curated selection.
Support Irish craft and get beautiful items to boot!

I really want to say this place is a one-​stop shop for hand made irish gifts but to be honest, it feels like there is something lacking — stock I think.
It is a bit too spartan, and what is there is not immediately appealing.

Great new discovery! Well, it’s not new, as according to their website, this shop has been around for a while, but I only found out yesterday. I’ve walked past Bow lane probably million times but clearly never looked to the left. The shop is a bit hidden but it’s smack in the centre and definitely worth a visit.
As the name implies, the shop sells Irish designs. Here you’ll find funky wallpapers and very cool prints, patterned scarves, gun badges, limited edition books, greeting cards and one-​off pieces like the awarded tableware collection by Laura Caffrey. All these pretty things come with a price though but you just have to look at it as an investment. Investing in art, investing in Irish talents, investing in the future.

This shop must be new, or else, I have been grossly overrating my powers of perception and observation to my friends.
I really like design and industrial design and if I wasn’t a pro-​man about town, I think I would consider learning how to do it. I’m the type to want to live in a house with an Eames chair and a Herbert Terry angle-​poise lamp. So, as you might imagine I got quite giddy when I spotted this oh so humble and unassuming shop front.
The Irish Design Shop is a miniature, urban Avoca hand weavers. They have ultra contemporary collection of print cushions, jewellery, t-​shirts, post cards and pottery, all with an Irish flavour.
The shop is secondary to the store concept which revolves around the inclusion of a workshop in the back inviting a visiting designer will work for a period of a ‘few weeks’. This is reflected in the floor-​space, very little of this is designated for the shop, most is the workshop giving the feel of being a gallery from which to watch a designer work. Interesting concept, n’est pas?
So, four stars for the Irish Design Shop, I’m sure when they get up and running they’ll earn the fifth star.