Retro Rooms Vintage Interior Fair Belfast

The Retro Rooms Show in The Holliday Inn, Ormeau Avenue, Belfast this weekend Sunday the 6th March 2011 is a must for all vintage hustlers, mid century freaks and modern design minglers.  Its the first vintage fair in Ireland to concentrate wholly on interiors, vintage furniture, ceramics, lighting and art so no clothes, make-up or ballroom distractions, just lots of lovely items of great design, inspiration and desire.  Please see some images below of some goodies that will be hopefully up for grabs and a list of seller's and exhibitors on show:

JENNY BOND INTERIORS: Lost and found furniture  brought back to life with contemporary restyling. TEA PARTY: Vintage china, glassware and linens. JUNIPER AND STONE: Restyled and vintage furniture,  homewares and furnishings. KIRK MODERN: Mid-century decorative items  and design, including 20th century ceramics, pottery,  vintage glass, retro furniture, accessories  and collectables. RETRORUMAGE: Mid century design including furniture  and collectables. VICTORIAN TEA PARTY: Vintage china hire and catering service. REFOUND: Found furniture recreated into individual  one-offs. FLOK: Retro teasets and kitchenalia, retro  and restyled furniture. LULABELLE'S HOUSE: The home of beautiful  handpainted and handfinished vintage furniture pieces and also furniture painting workshops. NIK'S VINTAGE: Handcrafted decorative arts  using recycled vintage ephemera. PALACE POSTERS: Passionate collectors  and dealers of original vintage movie posters. SARA'S DESIGNS: Illustration artworks with  a vintage icons theme. ORIGINAL COMPULSIVE DESIGN: Vintage 20th Century  Design, furniture, ceramics, glass and art for the modern home. RICHARD HARTE - COOL RETRO: Mid-century furniture, homewares and collectables. SMITH & SLOAN: Vintage furniture, furnishings,  ceramics and teasets. BETSEY VINTAGE: Vintage homewares, collectables and small furniture pieces. GRANNY'S ATTIC: Vintage homewares, collectables  and small furniture pieces. STRICTLY VINTAGE: Art deco and mid-century ceramics and collectables. ADJO: Mid-century and retro furniture, ceramics, glass and collectables. GERTRUDE-ANNA: Hand-made home  accessories and soft furnishings created from vintage fabrics. OXFAM VINTAGE: Vintage books, magazines, records, pictures and household bric-a-brac. PAULA'S VINTAGE: Vintage ceramics, glassware, books and other homewares. WILD CHILD ORIGINALS: Vintage furniture & homewares. INSPIRATION FURNITURE: Restyled vintage furniture. IT'S VINTAGE DARLING: Vintage furniture and homewares. ORLA MAGUIRE: Retro chairs, lights and ceramics. ANI & LULU'S CUPCAKERY: Scrumptious cupcakes and other baked goods. BUSKERS' DEN: Our entertainment area will be  bringing cool retro sounds from Della Storm, Mike Donaghy,  Tracy Dempsey, Amanda Agnew, Robyn Farah,  Ellen Turley & Geoff Hatt, and Steve McCann,

So lets all hope its well attended and everyone has a great day.
Lots of love to my vintage design tribe

Regards,  Noel
http://www.originalcompulsivedesign.com/

Original Compulsive Brocante

Hi, Its that time again, vintage time agian at the one and only Brocante vintage furniture market in NewMarket Square Dublin 8 contact                                                           Ode to vintage interiors

I will have a G-Plan 1950s table and chairs set and numerous other goodies for the mid-century kid, retro soul survivor, modern design freak and the rest of you original compulsive design trend setters, so come on lets unite over a fantastic cup of coffee and take in the ambience of a truly amazing Market 

lots of love to my vintage design tribe xx  Noel www.originalcompulsivedesign.com 

Kilkenny Vintage Design Studio

Kilkenny Vintage Design Studio at 11 Irishtown Kilkenny. It has to be one of the coolest places in Kilkenny for the up and comming trendie to shop for original vintage design furniture.

At last Original Compulsive Design have finally got themselves together and have opened their doors to the public in the heart of Kilkenny city. Its been a while in comming but worth the wait. A vintage design store in Kilkenny . Very cool pieces of furniture, lighting, ceramics and art from the the 1950’s to 1980’s.
Please check out Fritz Hansen, Herman Miller, Tapio Wirrkalla, G-Plan, Shcreiber, Parker Knoll, Anglepoise, Arkana and much more.

Vintage, Retro, Retro Modern, Retro Chic, Mid-century Modern, 20th Century and Modern design to name but a few catch phrases for this collectible furniture.

There seems to be a growing market in Kilkenny for vintage design furniture, lighting, art and this is reflected in the decor of the citys Hotels, Nightclubs, Cafe’s and Bars.

Kilkenny gave us the Kilkenny design centre and now we have the birth of the Kilkenny Vintage Design Studio in the heart of irish town, speacialising in original pieces of very cool furniture.