International artist/designer Joseph Walsh is ahead of the curve

Everything must change so that everything can remain the same,” said Giuseppe di Lampedusa in his book The Leopard.

It’s since become a maxim for resourcefulness, growth and the mindset underpinning it, and one that came to mind while on a visit recently to the studio of furniture designer Joseph Walsh, on a still summer morning.

This is where I first met him five years ago, and his Kinsale studio and workshop complex is, as it was five years ago, a microcosm of Irish design, historical and contemporary.