A furniture designer is crafting furniture, or 'storytelling artifacts', out of this heritage stone
‘My main goal is that it is very comfortable, but with a strong design aesthetic’: Giving Valentia Slate a new lease of lifeEdwyn James became fascinated, by Ireland’s oldest slate quarry, and discovered its monumental impact on architectural history at the Valentia Slate Quarry. Photograph: Fionn McCann
Valentia Slate, commercially quarried since the early 1800s, once employed over 450 people and provided slates for the Paris Opera House, Westminster Abbey and St Paul’s Cathedral. Its strong slabs of stone made it useful for both construction and domestic purposes, as well as paving and roof slates. After a large rockfall in 1911, the quarry closed, and remained inactive for most of the 20th century.
An award winning architect, James, originally from Limerick and now based in Ashford, Co Wicklow, is well used to designing innovative furniture. Two of his pieces were chosen to represent Ireland at the Maison&Objets trade show in Paris in 2020, but it was cancelled because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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