格鲁吉亚式联排别墅 | Rodney Alday | 2026 | 爱尔兰
Located on a historic street in the heart of Dublin, this Georgian townhouse was a real find for its owner, an entrepreneur in the hospitality industry who splits his time between the Irish capital and London. Its elegant interior is the result of a decade-long collaboration with interior designer Rodney Alday, founder of London studio Maison RA-D. Alday – who also decorated the homeowner’s London penthouse and New York residence – was formerly the head of design & interiors at Manhattan Loft Corporation, shepherding luxury developments such as London’s St Pancras Hotel & Residences. As such, he was perfectly attuned to his client’s expertise and tastes.
“The homeowner’s career is defined by an instinctive understanding of atmosphere, flow and the art of hosting,” Alday explains. “We have developed a shared visual language. This Dublin residence accommodates a household of three, including a beloved German Shepherd dog, and serves as both a serene refuge and an elegant stage for social life. When time allows, the house fills with family, friends and guests, yet the spaces remain refined and composed.”
The homeowner wanted the three-bedroom Georgian townhouse to be “simultaneously grand and approachable”: a sophisticated setting for everyday living that would honour the building’s history and feel as if it had evolved over time. “The brief was not simply for aesthetic excellence, but for interiors that anticipate the life within them,” says Alday. “Common areas were to accommodate entertaining without sacrificing intimacy, and private areas were to be layered, personal and richly textured.”
Alday’s task was made more delicate by the home’s unspoilt character, which offered “a palpable sense of Dublin’s architectural legacy”. When he first visited, the interior bore the traces of a previous era, including tired wallpapers and finishes. “Yet the period detailing – cornicing, high ceilings, sash windows, timber floorboards and the staircase – remained intact and of high quality. The challenge lay in breathing contemporary life into the home while preserving its heritage,” he says.
The interior was conceived to emulate the homeowner’s personality, which Alday describes as warm, open and quietly generous. Original details were meticulously restored; new interventions were subtly integrated, among them a concealed doorway linking the main house to a home office extension, bespoke joinery and panelling in warm timber veneers, and a mix of antique and contemporary furniture. “In the spirit of [fashion designer] Cristobal Balenciaga, where form transcends decoration, furniture, objects and spatial arrangements act as instruments of rhythm: curves meet planes, voids frame solids, and every element enters into dialogue with the next,” adds Alday.
Each piece was chosen to resonate with the architecture while feeling spontaneous. Curvaceous seating contrasts with the home’s crisp neoclassical lines: a Ferm Living chaise longue and mustard velvet Hippo lounge chair by Nor11 in the entrance hall, for instance, and a pair of Pacific sofas by Patricia Urquiola for Moroso in the first-floor living room. “Each gesture punctuates the architecture, creating a sense of rhythm, discovery and quiet theatre,” says Alday, who also drew on “the sunlight in Parisian apartments, the rhythms of Haussmannian boulevards, and the intimate layering of Roman palazzos” when developing his design.
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