When Róisín Lafferty started out in interior design, she sought employment at one of the big London firms. That didn’t work out: with no real-world experience during a highly competitive time, she couldn’t get a gig. It turns out to have been the best outcome. Twelve years after founding her own practice, Kingston Lafferty Design, she has built a reputation and garnered accolades both in Ireland and internationally for her richly layered interiors — especially residences animated by daring colour-blocking and material combinations, as well as bold bespoke furnishings and millwork. One of her early projects, Bolton Coach House, already feels iconic simply for the long pink sofa that hugs one of its dramatically linear rooms; Lovers Walk, her most recently completed home, features saturated hues and plush jewel tones that dial in to the current obsession with all things ’70s.
For Lafferty, it’s really about the person whose spatial reality she is envisioning. “It’s probably the interior architecture aspect that I love the most, that understanding of space and how you can enhance behaviour through design,” she told . Now with a staff of 15 (including Lafferty), her firm is designing a whole new batch of residential, retail and hospitality projects, including a
