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Designer shops with a difference in Kilkenny,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
Many of these people are relying more than ever on the Christmas trade this year to get them through the lean times in the early part of the coming year. I would ask you to bear this in mind when you are buying your Christmas presents. Not only will you be keeping your money 'local', but in these small boutiques and other shops you will often find something different,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], something that you are never going to get in a chain store.
Kilkenny has always been a great city for design and culture, and recently the area around Patrick Street has seen a burgeoning of interesting new individual shops and businesses,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], making it a great shopping destination.
Rudolf Heltzel came to Ireland from Germany in 1966 on the setting up of the Kilkenny Design Centre. Two years later he opened his own jewellery craftshop,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and was an instant success with his amazing designs which are as fashionable today as they were back then -- beautiful jewellery which stands the test of time. Rudolf is still designing, but his son Christopher is now also involved in the business.
"I joined the business three years ago,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], having been abroad in the United States, Sweden and Germany, working in silversmiths and goldsmiths, as it were, like the old-style travelling apprentices. That was also after I had done a jewellery course through the Crafts Council of Ireland.
"I had initially studied natural sciences, physics and geology,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and then I did what I thought I always wanted to do, which was working in films, working on the production end of Reign of Fire and Veronica Guerin.
"Through a number of coincidences, I then got the opportunity to train in goldsmithing and, having thought long and hard about it,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], now I am delighted that I am carrying the torch for another while, because the tradition that Rudolf has worked on for so long is almost dead.
"It's a traditional way of making jewellery,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], using techniques and tools and a style or way that they would have used going back almost 3,000 years, and that is not the way most jewellery is made nowadays. It means we can do things that aren't being done by others, design has always been the thing; you won't see our jewellery in other stores. Rudolf doesn't make to fashion,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], more to abstract design. We now have families with four generations coming in wearing Heltzel jewellery," he said.
Heltzel's jewellery is stunning, real collector's items -- I still have a beautiful neckplate from the Eighties.
ACROSS the road is Noel Green's Vintage Design studio doing fabulous 20th Century furniture and accessories. Noel is originally from Finglas in Dublin but spent 18 years working as a social worker in the UK,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]. He has a great eye for interesting pieces,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]. He specialises in mid-century modern design -- 20th Century retro/vintage.
"A lot of my friends deal in furniture and I got into it about 12 years ago. I had a furniture stall in the Portobello market in London. I remember sitting in a friend's flat and looking at two sideboards and I really liked one of them. My friend thought I was talking about a Victorian one but I was talking about one from the Seventies and he couldn't understand this. This was when my eye turned away from Victorian and Edwardian furniture. I was born in the Sixties, so maybe that has had an imprint on my outlook."
In the shop, Noel had some fantastic stand-alone pieces of furniture on display, from an amazing set of six dining chairs in black leather and stainless steel,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], to a 'Serpent lamp' by Martinelli Luce -- of which there is one on permanent display in the New York Museum of Modern Art. With a leaning towards country and equestrian themes,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], The Gift Horse has lovely gifts including stylish handmade rubber boots by Ilse Jacobsen. I loved the smashing print of big chubby Nosey Pig! at 75 and beautiful pictures of horses at 185. My brother also has shoe shops,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], De La Sole, in Ashleaf shopping centre in Crumlin and The Mill shopping centre in Clondalkin,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], so the entire family is mad about shoes. I opened the Shoe Box in Kilkenny in 2007 with a vision to hopefully expand to other towns around the country in the future."
Paul said he believes in personalised service, with the customer being number one.
"I think it is very important to be honest with the customer and not let them out with something that doesn't suit them, because their friends will tell them, and they won't come back," Paul explained.
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