On the eve of St Patrick’s Day, our national holiday, we're all in green clover. Channel some shamrock chic sa teach.
Begorrah and begosh, it’s time to factor in a little kitsch and some of the 40 shades of green into new spring looks at home.
Quotidien cuppa
Skylar is a stoneware mug that has an emerald coloured interior and a sunburn pink exterior, the kind a lot of us Paddies get when we go on holidays.
It has a shamrock-shaped handle and is reduced from €15 to €7 in the spring sale at Anthropologie.
Unless you live in Belfast, this online purchase is not going to arrive in time for the celebrations tomorrow, but this is a way of remembering your heritage, on a quotidian basis, wherever you are in the world.
Dance a jig on this
This flatweave rug resembles the fieldscape of rural Ireland as a geometric pattern. Designed by Louis De Poortere, Duo Oasis Berber is a cream and muddy green flatweave that is washable, which is a good thing should a crowd holding pints of porter start dancing a jig on it.
A 170 cm by 240 cm costs €669, excluding delivery from Rugs.ie.
Paint the town green
Inspired by the architectural modernism of Villa Necchi Campiglio in Milan, Necchi is a restful shade of green from Fleetwood’s new Prestige range.
It’s the colour of some smiling Irish eyes and every other cliché about our national holiday.
In the home, it has great depth, another great Irish character.
Apply to walls and woodwork. A sample pot costs €5.
Called to the bar
It wouldn’t be St. Patrick’s Day without drowning some shamrock.
Pull up a lucky clover green Kane bar stool at your preferred counter, be it in a kitchen or a long Victorian model in one of the nation’s many heritage pubs.
This 65 cm tall style by Bebo Designs features back support and is reduced from €220 to €187 at Finnish Design Shop, adding colour pops.
In clover
Peachy posteriors will love this 1970s-inspired boucle stool cum side table by fashion favourite Dutch brand Pols Potten, which Longmile Road-based CA Design has just added to its list of labels.
The Clover stool is shamrock-shaped and comes in three colours, but really, for the week that's in it, the moss green is the only one to covet.
It costs about €320, excluding delivery.
Suigh síos agus lig do scíth
HAY’s O2 is a modern lounge chair that champions a cool shade of green that is similar to old Aer Lingus livery.
Its form looks to the future, very much to a Paddy two point zero era.
A new style by Swedish designer Jonas Forsman for Danish furniture house, it feels as fresh as the dew on the morning grass.
It costs from €1,499, while the matching footstool costs from €789.
Tea rose
To mark March 17th, spongeware specialist Nicholas Mosse sells his Irish rose pattern on a different piece each year.
The floral design is interspersed with trefoil-like shamrocks and features on a lidded pot that would make a great caddy for a specialist tea or other infusions.
It costs €56.
