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CALAMITY HOUSE We may have to emerge blinking int
o the light and shed our trackies at some stage in 2020. And if you do so, make an entrance (or an exit) in Orla Langan’s new collection. Taking ‘Calamity Jane meets Little House on the Prairie’ as her sartorial cue, there’s a billowy, asymmetric, swagger to her collection which is Oeko-Tex Standard 100 certified which means they are completely free from harmful chemicals. Langan drapes, crops and off-sets her casual chic with a ‘little or no waste’ ethos. Covetable and clued-in. orlalangan.com THIRTY-TWO WORDS “It was my grandmother, Sighle Humphreys, who taught me Irish and when I asked her one day what the word for hole was, she replied: ‘Do you mean one dug into the ground by an animal? That’s an uachas. Or one made by fish in a sandy riverbed for spawning? That’s a saothar. Or if it’s been hollowed out by hooves of beasts and then filled by rain it’s a plobán. Or if a lobster is hiding in one it’s a fach. Or if it’s been created as a hideaway by a wild beast it’s a puathais.’” Manchán Magan connects language to landscape and routes it back to our beating hearts in Thirty-Two Words for Field, his exploration of the wisdom and insight encoded in words. Like a saunter on a soft day, he guides us down etymological boreens (bóithrín) always hand-holding and assuring that we will be all the better for the journey we embark upon. Gríosadh! £35, wearedorothy.com/products/stamp-albumspost-punk Dive Tru… Big burgers and classic junk food every Friday and Saturday in Glasnevin at 33 Slaney Road. So there! divetru.clickandcollection.com DUBLIN TOILET PROJECT The inconveniences of a pandemic have included a re-think about the shocking lack of public toilets in the city, not to mention basic seating. One endearing design solution to this comes courtesy of Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, who has created toilets made out of transparent glass which become opaque when occupied. There are two things we worry about when entering a public restroom, especially those located at a park,” Ban explains. “The first is cleanliness, and the second is whether anyone is inside.” This addressed both issues and at night, lights up the park “like a beautiful lantern.” It forms part of the Tokyo Toilet project which enlisted 16 creatives from around the world to redesign public toilets in Shibuya. tokyotoilet.jp shigerubanarchitects.com 7