Deep-filled comfort Bo Concept has a new deep-filled sofa, Carlton, that comes with a nest-like feather and down wrap and cast aluminium T-shaped legs that make it a stylish place to settle in for many winters to come. The basic three-seat design, 240cms long with deep 93cm seats, has many add-on options including a chaise longue lounger and a corner configuration and includes luxurious new tactile fabrics from Designer's Guild – crushed corduroy being this year's talking point. The three-seat model costs from €2,595. The style pictured is upholstered in nubuck and is far pricier costing €5,630.
Irish Times readers who present today's column can buy the sofa in any fabric or style less 20 per cent at either Bo Concept (boconcept.ie) stores in Dublin: Beacon South Quarter (01-293 2008) and Arnotts, Henry Street (01-804 5881). Offer ends September 30th.
The limestone look
Greyscale your flooring with this Denham seasoned limestone tile from Italian brand Ca’Pietra, new to Browsers (061-414490 browsers.ie) William Street, Limerick. The tile, 56cm by 2cm thick usually costs €62.50 per sq m. Irish Times readers who present today’s column can buy the tiles less 10 per cent, at €56.25. Offer ends September 18th.
Teardrop lighting
Venice is a glass pendant available at Willie Duggan Lighting (056 7722154 williedugganlighting.com), Hebron Business Park, Kilkenny. One of their most popular designs the teardrop shaped fixture, 25cm by 30cm, comes in four jewel colours, clear, purple, red and turquoise. Normally €110 the Kilkenny-based story is offering Irish Times readers who present today’s column the chance to buy it for €93.50, a saving of 15 per cent. Offer ends September 18th.
Around the camp fire
Enjoy evenings under the stars around a cool take on the traditional camp fire. In this cast-iron garden brazier which sits on a cast-iron base, you can burn charcoal or wood. Normally €95 at Howbert and Mays (01-202 0027 howbertandmays.ie), 27 Monkstown Crescent, Blackrock, Co Dublin, Irish Times readers who present today's column can buy it for €85, a saving of 10 per cent.
Trending . . . armchair travel
The chef’s dining room at London-based Mews of Mayfair (0044 20 7518 9388 mewsofmayfair.com), features a print of an original map of the British Empire, designed to chime with the eaterie’s “quintessentially British theme”. It took a number of prototypes to fit the map to the double height vaulted room and the map is replicated a couple of times in the room. What a way to armchair travel.
An antique map of the world, engraved by cartographer Thomas Kitchin and published in Guthries New Geographical Grammar in 1777, can be purchased from London-based Wallpapered (0044-2072224620 wallpapered.com). Prices range from about €73 for a format 150cm by 118cm, to €800 for the giant 500cm by 395 cm scale. They also do custom orders.
Three of the best . . . swing chairs
Christopher Duffy’s Swing set, is a design that sees hanging chairs suspended from a four-poster frame around a table top. This playful, if eye-wateringly expensive design will make mealtimes or work meetings a barrel of laughs. Prices start from about €5,686 (£4,500) for the four-seat size (0044-208594 3395 duffylondon.com)
Add a sense of fun to home life with the Me and U upholstered swing, a mood enhancing piece of whimsy by Danish company Softline that will sit well in open-plan kitchens and formal sittingrooms.
It hangs from the ceiling by a wire, has a wool seat, and comes in 20 different colour options. The 2005 design by Busk and Hertzog is available to order from Minima (01-633 7716 minima.ie), The Waterfront, Hanover Quay, Grand Canal Dock, Dublin 2. Prices start at €730.
Get up to all sorts of monkey business on this Monkey swing, an oak seat on a synthetic hemp rope whose ends have been heat sealed and cotton taped. The swing costs €171 (£135) ex-delivery from Clareloves.co.uk.
