Handmade furniture shop on the quay

abouttobebanned · 12-04-2011 03:14PM #1

Has anyone ever been in here? What a building. I'd love to know what used to be in there. Any info or background would be gratefully received,

(there's actually some great furniture in there too at decent prices)

looksee · 12-04-2011 05:10PM

I love the upstairs area of that shop! I imagine turning it into a place to live every time I go there. I like their furniture too.

I vaguely remember a couple of other shops being in it, there was a cafe at the front of the upstairs area at one stage and clothing downstairs I think.

abouttobebanned · 12-04-2011 05:37PM

It's a fanastic building that I'd say has loads of history.

On summer days I like to walk along the quay..stop in for a drink in Dooleys...eat in a restaurant along the way an always call in here for a look.

viking2011 · 12-04-2011 05:49PM

used to be Waterford Design Centre -
was crafts ppl on the top floor -
was a great place but didnt make the cut - even during the celtic tiger

lassykk · 12-04-2011 11:23PM

Perhaps there were crafts people on the top floor at some stage but there was a religious shrine on the very top floor with a full altar, church pews and everything that goes with it for years.

When the handmade furniture shop tool it over it became a storeroom for them as the lift went up to the top floor so I imagine it was easy transport stuff up there.

Haven't been on the top floor in years but I imagine the religious stuff is long gone

ROCKMAN · 13-04-2011 11:42AM

viking2011 wrote: »

used to be Waterford Design Centre -
was crafts ppl on the top floor -
was a great place but didnt make the cut - even during the celtic tiger

If they(owners) didn't pick and choose the crafts people by who they were ..
it might have had a chance

kkdela6 · 13-04-2011 07:16PM

Was that the shop where either the owner or a man working there single handedly foiled a burglary, and detained the criminal until the guards got there, think it happened a year or two ago?

munster_mafia · 14-04-2011 04:36AM

lassykk wrote: »

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Id say that religious stuff had something to do with when the Treacy's owned it, Bridget was a very religious woman!

Saying that they may still own it and just rent it out.

lassykk · 14-04-2011 09:27AM

munster_mafia wrote: »

Id say that religious stuff had something to do with when the Treacy's owned it, Bridget was a very religious woman!

Saying that they may still own it and just rent it out.

Oh it was Bridget & Jim's stuff I'd say.

Not sure of the current ownership of the building but the last I knew it was still owned by the Treacy's but that was years ago.

STIG83 · 14-04-2011 06:23PM

Where on the quay is this shop?

RxQueen · 14-04-2011 06:41PM

beside centra

wmpdd3 · 14-04-2011 10:54PM

It is an amazing shop, I wonder who designed it?

It really looks like the MacIntosh store in Glasgow.

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Handmade furniture shop on the quay

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