Creative coalition

Irish designers are being exposed to a new international audience

London’s Tottenham Court Road is an unusual place to happen across a single fallen beech tree. The fact that it has fallen all the way from Co Carlow is even more remarkable. But, for the next few weeks, here it will stay, in the window of Heal’s shop – as a massive shelving unit supporting internationally renowned crafts from Irish makers.

The crafts are all part of the Heal’s Design Ireland exhibition, a collaboration ...