IMAGE Interiors spring/summer 2026 hits shelves today, April 17. Editor Megan Burns shares what you can expect inside.
Putting together this issue, time and again I noted how integral collaboration and connection are to creative projects such as crafting homes and transforming spaces. There is a magic to be found in the mix of ideas and passions that multiple people bring. Even if we haven’t undertaken something on this scale, the connections are still there. Looking around my own home, I find links to others everywhere, from a handcrafted mug to pieces passed on from relatives, to marks in doorframes that are decades old, echoes of previous inhabitants.
This alchemy is evident in one of our features, where you can lose yourself in a Wonderland-esque house crafted by Irenie Cossey. She has brought together makers from different disciplines to create the unexpected – the work of woodworkers, textile designers, glassmakers, and weavers interacts and integrates, creating a space richly layered with craft and stories.
Collaboration is also at the heart of Gather, a new dining and event space at Fernwood farm in Co Galway. Bringing an old booley back to life, owners Anne and Simon Ashe have come together with culinary creatives Katie Sanderson and Jasper O’Connor to create a pop-up restaurant, reviving a connection to the land’s heritage, while ensuring its future through their many environmental initiatives. Another couple exploring a building’s past, Gauthier Gilbert and Luke Conlan are painstakingly restoring Villa Nuova, an old manor house in Kerry with a significant history.
The making of a home is too a process of collaboration, between dwellers, designers, and craftspeople. The Kinsale home in these pages is a perfect example, where designer Niamh O’Callaghan worked with the owners’ existing pieces as well as commissioning new work by Irish makers to create a cohesive space that reflects the harbour views outside. While you’ll also find a Galway home that takes a soft approach, allowing for a serenity that lets its inhabitants find their own rhythms. The transformation of a Kerry lakehouse was a feat of community collaboration, including a bathtub that went on an epic journey with some help from local farmers. And architect Ryan Kennihan’s latest project is a collaboration of old and new, where the distinctive features of an Edwardian home form the starting point for its new addition.
This issue is also full of ways to enjoy the best of the season.
ichelle Hanley sets out the perfect Sligo escape, while days at the beach are influencing our interiors with shell-inspired moods (I’ve since found myself on the hunt for bedding in a perfect mussel blue). Artist Sasha Sykes captures the usually ephemeral blooms that mark this time of year in her Carlow studio. And if you’re planning to spruce up your outdoor space, look for our edit of garden furniture and al fresco accessories.
I hope you’ll find plenty of inspiration for the season ahead.
Enjoy the issue,
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