Fossil Table

American black walnut table, hand sculpted and inspired by fossilised patterns found in nature. Also shown in bleached French ash finished in a white pigmented oil finish.

Dimensions; 1m x 1m x 0.75m
Photography by Colin Colleran

For the second year running Ryan Connolly from Connolly & Company received an award at the 2016 National Craft awards at the RDS in Dublin. Ryan was awarded the Emerging Maker award in the furniture category for his nested ash tables.

Image courtesy of RDS

Photographed by Roland Paschhoff

Ryan Connolly from Connolly & Company was awarded the judges spotlight prize at the Future Makers Awards. Design & Crafts Council of Ireland’s ‘Future Maker Awards & Supports’ provide support for the next generation of makers to learn, experience, investigate, develop, create and shape the future of Irish craft and design. This year the judges were ceramicist Michael Eden and designer Sasha Sykes.

Image courtesy of Design and Crafts Council of Ireland  

Oak Reception Desk

Solid French oak reception desk with grey calf skin. Matching product display trays.
White pigmented oil finish.
Dimensions; 2.5m x 0.6m x 0.75m
Photography by Colin Colleran

Connolly & Company collected two awards at the 2015 National Craft awards at the RDS in Dublin. Ryan Connolly was awarded the IACI RDS Muriel Gahan award and also the Emerging Maker award in the furniture category, for his piece Walnut Side Table III. The judging panel described the piece as “a stunning piece of work, embracing new technology in furniture, beautifully shaped and curved”.

Image courtesy of RDS

Photographed by Roland Paschhoff

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Have a look at the winter edition of Irish Arts Review for the Design Perspective article on Connolly & Company

Optica Chair

American walnut and French oak chairs, available with or without arms and leather back upholstery.

Designed for Optica – Dawson Street.

Oil finish.
Photography by Colin Colleran

Walnut Writing Desk

Solid walnut writing desk with three discrete leather lined drawers.
Oil finish.
Dimensions; 1.2m x 0.6m x 0.7m
Photography by Colin Colleran

Walnut Reception Desk

Solid walnut reception desk with leather panelling, and leather lined display case.
Oil finish.
Dimensions; 1.8m x 0.5m x 0.9m
Photography by Colin Colleran

Low Ash Table

French Olive Ash low table with nested side tables
White pigmented oil finish
Dimensions 120cm x 49cm x 52cm

Walnut Consol Table II
American Black walnut consol table
Oil finish
Dimensions 120cm x 49cm x 84cm

Walnut Side Table II
American Black walnut side table
Oil finish
Dimensions 45cm x 30cm x 42cm

Walnut Side Table III
American Black walnut end table
Oil finish
Dimensions 50cm x 38cm 47cm

Walnut Consol Table II

American Black walnut consol table
Oil finish
Dimensions 120cm x 49cm x 84cm
Photography by Colin Colleran

Oak Side Table I

Side tables made from solid French quarter sawn Oak.
Oil finish.
Dimensions 40cm x 40cm x 43cm.
Photography by Colin Colleran

Walnut Side Table

American Black walnut side table
Oil finish
Dimensions 45cm x 30cm x 42cm
Photography by Colin Colleran

Chopping Boards

Chopping boards made using engrain olive ash or walnut.
Food safe oil finish.
Dimensions 34cm x 24cm x 3cm

Walnut Side Table III

American Black walnut side table
Oil finish
Dimensions 50cm x 38cm 47cm
Photography by Colin Colleran

Stools

Stools made using solid olive ash or walnut.

Available in either high or low version and with or without upholstered seat pad.
Oil finish.
Dimensions 43cm x 32cm x 70cm
Photography by Colin Colleran

Walnut Dining

Dining table made entirely from one boule of French Walnut.
Oil finish.
Dimensions; 2.2m x 1.1m, other dimensions available.
Photography by Colin Colleran

History Chair

‘Work that has a past but that feels absolutely present’

The History Chair is a unique piece born out of a long standing working relationship between two designers – Cathal Loughnane and Peter Sheehan – and an amazing collaboration with crafts people such as Connolly & Company initiated by Joseph Walsh.
The designer’s sensitivity to form and silhouette has been captured first by hand and eye in making the first prototypes, then digitally to aid the making of every component, and finally by hand & eye again as the final assembled piece is crafted and finished.

Exhibitions:
Wallpaper* Handmade, Milan in 2012
Vernacular at London Design Week 2013
Vernacular at the National Craft Gallery in 2013/2014
Currently on show at SO fine art editions, 10 Anne Street South, Dublin

You get the feeling that the chair has already lived a life. It is a chair to sit in and to touch.
It is a chair to think in.
The History Chair story here.

design@petersheehanstudio.com

History Chair made using olive ash or French walnut

Oil finish
Leather seat pad.
Dimensions 68cm x 52cm x 82cm

Oak Dining

Dining table made from solid French quarter sawn Oak.
Oil finish.
Dimensions 2.2m x 1.1m, other dimensions available.
Photography by Colin Colleran