We love the home of Dublin-born Irenie Cossie in London. She has a creative studio that covers interior styling and colour curation and her home has been featured on Vitra Home Stories as well as The Modern House. Her home is light-filled and an eclectic and vibrant mix of classics from playful and colourful designers like the Eames that share space with her many collected items, home-made ceramics and sentimental trinkets.

As she says to Vitra:

'Design has been part of my life ever since I was a child. I was always in my bedroom, drawing and making things. I guess I’m analogue by nature. As an interior designer I need to see things through. When we moved in here 14 years ago, I wanted to put my own stamp on it.

When I curate spaces, it’s all about connections and layers. My house, and any home is in constant shift. We change, children change, spaces change, we need to adapt to that. So there’s always a project going on, everywhere. My home is a platform to test ideas. I might see a colour somewhere, and I’ll keep it in mind, and try and apply that to fabrics, paints, samples, tiles, to a new project. It’s like making a fruit salad, blending bitter and sweet. The pop of something unusual is what I’m after. There’s always this constant: old and new, found and revived. Either reupholstering something a few times as needed over its lifespan or mixing it with new pieces.’

‘Everything has a story. About a year ago we managed to get an original plywood splint by Eames, which we’d been after for years. It is in the dining room. People ask what it is, and then we explain the background and how it ended up in our house. Or my mum’s Irish harp, which she played from the age of a child. I brought it back from Ireland. No one in the house can play it but I just love all the memories it brings.’