Law firm's new city offices are where art meets commerce

Cork's just-relocated JW O’Donovan’s  law offices like ‘a work of art’ - plus it's  a vote of confidence in physical offices and in the South Mall too

A brush with the law: A Tom Climent oil painting and a desk by creative furniture maestro Joseph Walsh greet visitors to J.W. O'Donovan's new offices at  27 South Mall, Cork. Photo Joleen Cronin

AN art collection started by the late Irish solicitor, arts benefactor, and cultural figurehead Charlie Hennessy marks out the new law offices of long-established firm JW O’Donovan. And it’s a stamp of confidence in Cork’s South Mall too.

Upstanding 27 South Mall dates to the 1980s