Designer Ireland - No 59: Fake Georgian door

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Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2000 / November 26 2000: Designer Ireland - No 59: Fake Georgian door

One of the defining features of recent Irish design is pastiche, and one of the most dramatic ways this has found expression is through a rash of fake Georgian buildings. That they have been allowed to cover the centre of Dublin could be attributed to the guilty conscience of a planning department that oversaw the destruction of so many real Georgian buildings in the 1960s and 1970s.

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