Meet Hugh Wallace the man behind a thousand store fronts

Carol O’Callaghan meets the man behind a thousand store fronts — the principal of architecture and design company, Douglas Wallace Consultants, and a man who’s become better known as a judge in ‘Home of the Year’.

WHEN did we start calling houses homes? An American influence no doubt, but it’s a word that is so much more inviting, suggesting warmth and comfort and a place that already seems to be imprinted with our own life story.

So it’s probably not surprising that when RTÉ launched a new programme they called it Home of the Year rather than House of the Year, with the first series airing in 2015. Among the panel of three judges who chose the winner from 21 homes featured was one of the elder statesmen of Irish design, Hugh Wallace.