Dublin
— — the colour the rain leaves on the doors.
Not only on a wall.
“Capital of Ireland, set where the River Liffey meets Dublin Bay. The Georgian doors along Merrion Square go through every saturated colour the rain can hold. Trinity's library keeps the Book of Kells under low light. Pubs run on conversation more than music, though the music is never far. from the studio
Dublin, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
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The place, in three passes.
Dublin is the capital and largest city of Ireland, set at the mouth of the River Liffey where it empties into Dublin Bay on the Irish Sea. The greater metropolitan area holds about 1.4 million people, roughly a quarter of the country's population. The city was founded as a Viking trading settlement around 841, and the Norse name Dyflin gave the modern city its name. It sits at 53 degrees north, in a low coastal basin sheltered by the Wicklow Mountains to the south and the Howth peninsula east.
The Georgian doors that have come to stand for Dublin's character mostly date from the 1750s through the 1830s, the period when the Wide Streets Commission redrew the city. Merrion Square and Fitzwilliam Square keep among the longest continuous Georgian terraces in Europe, with brick faces, fanlights, and the now-famous painted doors in greens, reds, and blues. The story that residents painted them to defy Queen Victoria's mourning order is folklore; the more likely reason is that house numbers were unreliable, and bright doors helped tenants find home.
Trinity College's Old Library holds the Book of Kells, an illuminated gospel manuscript completed around the year 800 by Columban monks, and the Long Room beneath it shelters about 200,000 of the library's oldest books. Admission to the Kells exhibition runs about 18.50 euros, and morning slots before 10 are markedly quieter. The Guinness Storehouse at St James's Gate, where the brewery has operated since 1759, draws around 1.6 million visitors a year and ends with a pint at the seventh-floor Gravity Bar overlooking the city.