Aileen Lee sits down with Cork architect Michael Carroll.

Rose Martin picks up a copy of William Hall’s latest block buster, which frames the building materials that make up our world. This time he concentrates on timber.

Furniture designer Eileen Gray was one of Ireland’s most pioneering women, yet most of us have never even heard of her. That’s all set to change now Orla Brady is playing her in a new movie, writes Esther McCarthy.

A new film unveils the bitter fallout between Eileen Gray and Le Corbusier over their iconic villa in the south of France, writes Ellie O’Byrne

LOUISE COTTER is originally from Tralee in Co Kerry, but lives in Cork. She is one of the lead architects and co-founder of Carr Cotter Naessens (CCN) Architects, the firm that has won several awards for its work on dlr Lexicon, the library and cultural centre in Dún Laoghaire.

Des O’Sullivan on a show of the work of the world-renowned designer.

Kya deLongchamps loosens her stays to give a brief history of a sensuous piece of parlour furniture. 

SUNDAY: One Ocean: No Limits (RTÉ One, 8pm)

IRISH women designers are often promoted for their essential qualities of firstly, being Irish and secondly, for being women.

350 lots include Le Brocquy and de Bardyere works, Des O’Sullivan reports.

THE interior of the Lewis Glucksman Gallery is a compelling backdrop for its visual-art programme. The exhibition ‘Folly: Art After Architecture’, which features artists’ impressions of some of the most iconic buildings in modernist architecture, maximises this setting.

Wexford woman Eileen Gray was a major force in the Modernist movement. Tina Darb O’Sullivan previews the major retrospective of her work at IMMA

When the exhibition Eileen Gray: Architect Designer Painter opens at IMMA next week, can we expect a lesson in the merits of timeless design from the Modernist era?

THE pair of George IV specimen marble top tables for €195,000 at the IADA fair at the RDS in Dublin this weekend capture a current antique market moment.

THERE’S a great deal to be said for tradition. It gives us a sense of who we are, where we come from, our own mythology if you will.

ALONG with Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe, Eileen Gray ranks among the architects and designers who have left a significant mark on the 20th century and defined modernity.

HOW many restoration projects for classic modernist houses are there in this country? Very few is the anecdotal answer. As a race we’re still in thrall to the Georgian — Victorian and Edwardian barely cut it — and our modern vernacular is a mash of simple farmhouse and country manor — all neo-Georgian, of course.

IT is appropriate that West Cork and its annual literary festival should provide a platform for arts writer, cultural historian and biographer Nicholas Fox Weber to talk about his subjects — after all, he’s been coming to this section of craggy coastline for 40 years, and it has played a seminal and supporting role in more than a few of his 14 books.

Who would have thought that one of the first people to design and make tubular steel furniture would be Irish — and a woman?

She was acclaimed as one of the world’s greatest designers, so why was Eileen Gray ignored by Ireland for so long, asks Manchán Magan

IF renting is the new buying, meet a couple who may well qualify as Ireland’s best tenants – and who were never really tempted to buy.

Rose Martin is impressed by this eccentric house in Skibbereen.