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Bold chic of an Irishman's London mews

Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2001 / June 14 2001: Bold chic of an Irishman's London mews

One of the great misfortunes of contemporary architecture in Ireland has been the paucity of patrons prepared to commission imaginative new work. It is a feature of the Irish psyche to be conservative, and this is particularly the case in relation to visual taste. The result is a preponderance of repetition, with once-fresh ideas driven to staleness. A newly-refurbished city centre home serves to highlight this regrettable state of affairs because while the client is Irish, the city is London.

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