Former Avoca owner Amanda Pratt: ‘Ireland’s connection to design is humble – it’s to do with our historic poverty’

Favourite places: The Tuscan farmhouse our family has in Italy is my favourite place. It’s a haven for three generations of the Pratt family. Rolling hills, history, surrounded by woods but near so many interesting places.

Secondly, our garden at home full of plants that I look after keenly. And we have great natural helpers in the form of a beehive too. My dad is a great plants man, I wish he’d teach me more.



Hint, hint, Donald. Because of the way they bring the culture and materials of their countries into their interiors, I’d have to go for The Eco Nubia Lodge on Bigeh Island on the Nile at Aswan (the opposite to luxury but what an effort!) and Riad El Arsat in Marrakesh. Luckily my twin girls and husband love these types of experiences too, so we often all go together.

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