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Image / Editorial

Sneak Peek! What’s Inside the New Festive Nov-Dec Issue


By IMAGE Interiors & Living
04th Nov 2015

Cover photograph: Delightfull

Sneak Peek! What’s Inside the New Festive Nov-Dec Issue

Cover photograph: Delightfull

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Yes, it’s here! The new Nov-Dec edition of Image Interiors & Living hits stores today and we just know you’re all agog to get a glimpse of the delights inside…

Where to start? We?basically want everything in our’six-page gift guide (friends and family, be warned). The beautiful winter chalet of our dreams? Check. Learning about the Christmas rituals of some of our favourite creatives? Get lost in the beautiful stories of?Ella Griffin, Kate Beaufoy, Annie Atkins, Aoife Carrigy, Caroline Hennessy, Laura Magahy and many more. And don’t even get us started on our fabulously festive food shoot – find out?how to serve up the perfect Christmas canap? and prettily package perfect homemade edible gifts…

Haus Walde in the alpine wonderland of the Austrian Tyrol. Photograph: Christian Schaulin
Haus Walde in the alpine wonderland of the Austrian Tyrol. Photograph?by?Christian Schaulin

We also celebrate how exciting, innovative and just plain wonderful the world of Irish craft is right now, as the Year of Irish Design draws to a close. You can see this with our?exclusive look at the collaboration between fashion designer Helen Cody and artisan rug makers Ceadog?n.

Helen Cody at Ceadog?n. Photography by Al Higgins
Helen Cody at Ceadog?n. Photography by Al Higgins

But back to gifts. When in doubt at Christmas time, those in the?know head?to Article in Dublin’s Powerscourt Townhouse. You could go in there blindfolded, buy the first thing you lay your hand on?and be on to a surefire winner for even the most discerning interior-design lover. That’s how wonderfully curated John Adams? store is. No surprise then that his brand-new home is just the same. Getting an exclusive first look was a real treat…

Details from the Drumcondra home of Article's John Adams. Photography by Doreen Kilfeather
Details from the Drumcondra home of Article’s John Adams. Photography by Doreen Kilfeather

And because we love you all so much, we’ve found the most covetably cosy Foxford Woollen Mills lap throw – in our go-to luxe wintry palette of grey and white?? for our subscriber gift this issue. It’s worth €53 and we have 50 to give away… but it’s?first come, first served, so don’t miss your chance to snuggle up with a great read under a great rug.

Grey and white Oxford Windowpane lambswool lap rug by Foxford Woollen Mills, worth €53 but free when you subscribe to Image Interiors & Living for €25
Grey and white Oxford Windowpane lambswool lap rug by Foxford Woollen Mills, worth €53 but free when you subscribe to a year’s worth of Image Interiors & Living for €25

The all-new, all-gorgeous November-December issue of Image Interiors & Living is on shelves now, priced €3.99 (or subscribe now for just €25 and bag yourself a blanket!). Go on, treat yourself – you know you want to…

Cover photograph: Delightfull