Karen Bell

Textile and Homewares Designer Interior Architect, Design Journalist, Art Lover and sometime Food Aficionado.

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Me and Penny with my cushions and her Charcoal Drawings inspired by James Joyce’s The Dead at The Pop-up shop in DunLaoghaire Shopping Centrw until Sunday https://t.co/KiUDHNLB84

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YEY! have just been chosen as a finalist in the Irish Made awards 2023 hosted by @irishcountrymag. Please vote for me designbybell in the textiles category. I really appreciate all your support. 🙏
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The Irish Times, Comment & Letters Chief Writer @FrankmcnallyIT about Penny Stuart @the_penny_gallery whose exhibition at Sweny’s Pharmacy on Lincoln Place @swenyspharmacydublin continues today and tomorrow. “Extraordinary” “reminiscent of Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud”

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@atSimplethings Definitely talented but my personal opinion- the hair could do with a bit of a tousle

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So I never heard of Sam Ryder before seeing him on Strictly yesterday- great voice but the hair - seriously needs a bit of just woke up and this is my bed head

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Suzanne Kane on Ireland AM now please dial back the interjections and the volume a bit - it’s Saturday after all and gentler viewing is the order of the morning.

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Check out my new table runner and napkin designs on 100% Irish Linen evoking a summer seaside with my Carrageen seaweed, designed, printed and made in Ireland. DM for details

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@GlassOfRedWine Shiitake Miso mushrooms as a starter (tasted in Allta and roughly translated at home). Enjoy!

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@MaryLizTrant1 @SeanMoncrieff @IrishTimes I used this ‘quote’ a week ago to rebut views opined and presented as fact. Was not I fear, being humble about knowing nothing, rather attempting to impel the other into a bit more self regard.

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To President Zelensky and the people of Ukraine 🇺🇦 from Dublin, Ireland, I salute you and hope and pray 🙏 that you can withstand and repel this invasion of your sovereign nation and survive and thrive as you have done before. #StandWithUkraine

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@LeslieAnnHorgan On it right now! I Hank you for the opportunity to do this 🤩🤩🤩🙏

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@Kat_Burroughs @LlewelynBowen @AnnaRichardso Methinks @LlewelynBowen channelling Pirates of the Caribbean and going great guns taking the Michael. PC response would be to take issue with reno sustainability but as a piece of comedy 👏👏👏

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am so delighted to feature in The Irish Times Home and Design In House Column this weekend - thanks to @FionaGartland for including me in this stellar publication along with Creatives Tadhg Walsh Peelo and Aideen Monaghan. ❤️

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@Kat_Burroughs @m_shillingford @duluxuk @colourindesign @NewDesigners Emerald Garden

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Fresh and squishy Summer Cushions are the Swallows Wheel collection by Karen Bell designed, printed and Made in Ireland Check them out on https://t.co/z2hqL1z5iH

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Spectacular stories from young writers in Fighting words today in IT supplement. https://t.co/byxIWkbzCh Stupendous talent and exciting to see what’s coming up next. So proud to have been a tiny part of this back when Roddy Doyle started this writing revolution

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@louisemcsharry @rteliveline @lidl_ireland @euronews Plenty first world countries that need their governments to be embarrassed about period poverty to do something meaningful about it. Scotland initiated a free period products pilot 3 years ago and it was so successful it was adopted nationwide. Other multiples here get on board.

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https://t.co/l70daWiLRJ golden Art Deco cushions for a bit of Easter Sunshine

[Karen Bell @designbybell]

Are you allergic to cuteness? I am normally - but pot-bellied Stan has travelled with me since my Aachen days so he has to get a look in sometime. Would look great on a pink, black, green, or even tan chair. Check it out on my website or DM for details. #cushions #Interiorstyling