My favourite room: ‘The marble is inspired by the Taj Mahal and the curtains are all made from sari silk’
As a child, Cormac Lynch absorbed design by osmosis when his father was restoring dilapidated buildings in Ireland. Now based in India, he travels the world designing interiors for top hotels, homes and restaurants
Cormac Lynch in his sumptuous drawing room. The curtains are made from silk from Benares and he had the fabric on the sofas dyed to match. The table in the foreground is actually a thali tray, he uses these trays a lot as tables. The two large prints over the sofa depict the Brooklyn Bridge and the Flatiron Building in New York. Photo: Yoshi Studio
Up until the Celtic Tiger, ‘flat’ was the word everyone used here for a living unit that wasn’t a full house; it was called a flat because all the rooms were on the same floor. During the good times, the use of the word flat gave way to the American term apartment and now here in Ireland if we don’t live in houses, we live in apartments.
The word flat, however, is still used in Cormac Lynch’s hometown of Mumbai in India and what a flat Cormac’s is.
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