J O S E PH WALS H
Joseph Walsh, Dommus Table, 2017. Photo Andrew Bradley
The Dommus collection, Dɔommuʊs being the Latin word for a dwelling, was created by the studio to differentiate between the studio’s commissioned site specific pieces and a new portfolio of unique furniture, realized for the private home. This elegant family grouping of refined Walnut and Ebonised Walnut pieces: a cleft wood cabinet, an organic sculptural table and twisted chair forms, have been specifically designed for the home.
Dommus Cleft Cabinet, Walnut, Ebonized Walnut & Lacquer, 94 x 60 x 195 cm. €90,000 Dommus Erosion Table I, Walnut, Ebonized Walnut & Lacquer, 205 x 128 x 74 cm. €90,000 Dommus Chair I, Walnut, Ebonized Walnut & Oil 58 x 50 x 77 each. €10,600 (each)
All prices exclude any applicable tax, shipping, crating and installation costs.
Joseph Walsh, Dommus Collection, 2017. Photo Andrew Bradley
The pieces encapsulate the quality of making, the diversity of unique and innovative wood working processes and represent his expressive design. Each piece is hand-crafted and yet designed with a specific and practical purpose that would give a refined and elegant character to a private home, and be immediately recognised as a Joseph Walsh Studio Dommus piece. Each piece relates to the other, in a beautifully orchestrated collection.
Joseph Walsh, Dommus Sketches, 2017. Joseph Walsh Studio
Joseph Walsh, Dommus Collection, 2017. Photo Andrew Bradley
Joseph Walsh epitomises the Gallery’s ethos to represent specialist studio based production by influential artist designermakers, using traditional techniques along-side technical innovation, that produce work of integrity and truth to material. The excellence of making achieved through handcrafted precision, adds a distinctive personality to the pieces made and brings relevance, character and a new sensibility to furniture making in a contemporary design context. The Wall Street Journal referenced Joseph’s work as ‘sensual, stunning and technically brilliant’. This collection certainly demonstrates all those qualities and accumulated a sense of excitement for its inaugural launch at SALON Art & Design Fair in New York last year.
Enignum Shelf 2 ES XXXI, 2017. Ash, 240 x 120 x 37 cm. Also available in Walnut â‚Ź28,000 All prices exclude any applicable tax, shipping, crating and installation costs.
Joseph Walsh, Enignum Shelf 2 ES XXXI, 2017. Photo Andrew Bradley
Enignum Desk, Olive and Burr Ash. (L)280 x (D)100 x (H)74 cm
â‚Ź100,000
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Joseph Walsh, Enignum Desk, 2016. Photo Andrew Bradley
Enignum Shelf XXVI, 2016. Olive ash, (L)420 x (D)61 cm €40,000 Enignum Shelf XXV, 2016. Olive ash, (L)365 x (D)53 cm €40,000 All prices exclude any applicable tax, shipping, crating and installation costs.
Joseph Walsh, Enignum Shelf XXVI and XXV, 2016. Photo Andrew Bradley
Erosion Dining Table, Olive Ash. 74 H x 130 W x 400 L cm â‚Ź190,000 All prices exclude any applicable tax, shipping, crating and installation costs.
Design Miami Basel 2016, Photo James Harris
Photo James Harris
Enignum Shelf, 2017 Ash 30 x 230 x 38 cm €24,000 Enignum Console, 2017 Ash 80 x 227 x 45 €48,000 Enignum VIII Chair, 2017 Ash 77 x 58 x 50 cm €10,600
All prices exclude any applicable tax, shipping, crating and installation costs.
From left to right Dommus Chair, ebonised walnut, 2017. 58 x 50 x 77 €10,600 Enignum VIII Chair, Ash, 2017. 77 x 58 x 50 cm €10,600 Dommus Chair, Ash, 2017. 58 x 50 x 77 €10,600
The team at Joseph Walsh Studio in Cork, Ireland
Joseph Walsh (born 1979) founded his studio in 1999 in Ireland. Brought up in Ireland and largely self-taught from an early age, he was inspired by his natural environment, through its rugged and wooded landscape. His creative vision as a furniture maker took early influence from vernacular design and later the generation of 20th Century studio makers including John Makepeace, who showed the young designer the expressive possibilities of his craft. Now, with his own team of international craftsmen working on commissions across the globe, he creates unique sculptural hand-crafted exquisite furniture pieces. The creative community that Joseph has drawn around him in Riverstick County, Cork, encourages a greater level of creative diversity and innovation. This commitment to excellence is continuously reflected in his studio practice, as it becomes more significant and ambitious, culminating this year in a major commission for The National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin for a significant Ash sculpture titled Magnus Modus and a monumental commission for 24 unique sculptural chairs for Chatsworth House. His workshop has become phenomenally successful and now comprises of a team of international master makers and design developers to realize the ambitious and unique sculptural pieces. He was conferred with an honorary doctorate in 2015 for his contribution to the arts in Ireland by University College Cork. The designer has exhibited extensively around the world and his work is included in many public and private collections, such as the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Mint Museum of Craft & Design, Charlotte, North Caroline, USA; National Museum of Ireland - Decorative Arts & History, Dublin, Ireland; The Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth House, UK; Embassy of Japan, Dublin, Ireland; Rafael Vinoly, Uruguay; John H. Bryan Collection, Illinois, USA; and Paul Stuart’s, Madison Avenue, New York, USA.
Joseph Walsh, Cleft Cabinet, 2017. Photo Andrew Bradley
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