Jazzing up some 21st-century classics

In 1990, New Yorker Susan Zelouf was singing jazz in the Café de Paris in Rome. Captivated in the crowd, Belfast-born Michael Bell requested “a happy ballad”. She obliged with Embraceable You, and Cupid’s arrow zoomed home.

As it happens, the couple have a combined background in arts and engineering. Two decades on, Zelouf + Bell are Ireland’s leading design partnership, their award- winning, ...