Last Saturday I spent a rainy afternoon at the Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment. As opening lines go, it’s not quite “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again,” although the building is close in age to Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca, and its vintage is why I was there.
Voluntarily hanging out in government departments isn’t my normal weekend vibe – that would be drifting through Tesco despairing at the price of cheese – but Open House, the free architecture festival, was on, and 23 Kildare Street was somewhere I was keen to visit (for what I wrongly assumed would be the first time).
Why? Because it’s art deco. Indeed, to borrow a Lana Del Rey lyric, it’s so art deco, which makes it aesthetically more refined than about 95 per cent o
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