Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
The Clare Byrne Show on Newstalk. With Aviva Insurance.
Now, architect Dermot Bannon is here in studio.
Good morning, afternoon. Is it afternoon or morning? No, no, it's only 11 o'clock. So which topic are we doing? Can we go to chips first, can we? Are you a chips robber?
Chapter 2: What are the newest trends in house design?
It is so true though, isn't it? The chips that you steal from somebody else. Because I'm one of these people, I try to mind what I eat, so I never order chips. But then I rob them off everybody else's plate. Or you know if somebody else's dinner comes first and they get chips with it and you're waiting for yours and then the hand goes, it's probably really rude, isn't it?
And my wife slaps my hand away.
My husband at this stage is so broken, he just hands me over the food.
The chips, there you go, they're yours.
He literally takes one bite of whatever he's eating and without saying a word, he just hands it. Rather than have me take it out of his hand, which is what I'm going to do. I'm them doing the same as you, trying to be good and then just eating everybody else's rubbish, the usual. Anyhow, you said to me just before we started, A, don't grill me. And I said, no, I've left those days behind me.
And also it's my birthday tomorrow, so you can't.
No, you can't. No. Birthday again. Yeah.
So is it a big birthday?
No, no, it's not a big it's not a big Randy birthday. That was a couple of years ago.
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Chapter 3: How does Dermot Bannon describe celebrity homes?
It's just, it's kind of, I don't know if it's my taste, but it's very, very cool. When you walk into it, you just feel like you're in Joanne's world. And it's not a bad thing. It mightn't be to everybody's taste, but it is really, really cool. You are put into this kind of bubble, the Joanne bubble, and everything around it is bright colours. She's bright. Right. The clothes she wears are bright.
The humour is bright. The furniture is bright. The chairs are way oversized. She'd cut the legs off them to get them in. Like everything is just, it's kind of, there's an energy about it. That's her.
Yeah, and do you not think people often have a home that doesn't reflect their energy? That if this is who they are in public, when they come home, they try and live a completely different life.
Or the generic house. I feel so, I do, like what, breaks my heart as an architect sometimes is when people feel the pressure that their house needs to look a certain way and they they they're kind of they get it looks like a magazine cover and you know they're really extremely tidy and you know that they're they're spending the whole time just trying to keep up this image and
Like there's nothing... For me, that's like a shackle. You know, it's... I love when you walk into somebody's house and there's stuff that's kind of thrown around the place. There's maps. You know, if they love sailing, there's kind of... There's maps on the walls that you can see. So it tells you a little bit about them. I love going into somebody's house and it being their world.
You know, that it's... Do you?
I love going into a house that's spotlessly clean. Do you? I just think, oh, how lovely to be... Yeah, exactly. Great. Because when my house... With two young kids, it's just toys.
Absolutely everywhere. Always a sense of... But I love that. I love that. I love when you go into... Like, it's kind of like going to visit somebody. Like, you're visiting... For me, that's their mind spilled out all over the floor. And that's... You're immersing yourself into their lives.
Like, I love when you've spent a weekend with somebody and you go away thinking, I want to live a bit more like them. You know, like if they're... I don't know, people might cook all the time or they'll make something different or... That they have barbecues in the middle of the day or they make cocktails of little cocktail bars. And you think that's really cool. And I don't do that at home.
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Chapter 4: What unique design choices do celebrities make in their homes?
Sorry, I shouldn't use, I'm on first name terms. You're such.
A name dropper, Jeremy.
I keep forgetting that you guys aren't. So my friends, Camille and Aidan, you may know Aidan from Love, Hate, and you may know Camille from... But Camille is an architect. That's what she trained us. So this for her was a lifelong, the culmination of a lifelong project. So she won an RAI award for it. And this was a big deal for her, the design. And wait till you see it. The house is...
It's really cool architecturally, really, really cool. And the first scene, actually, and they left it in. I can't believe they did. But I was kind of treating her like an architect colleague. And she has this really cool press that hides all the clutter. And when I walked into the kitchen, the press was completely open. And I just said, Camille, do you want to stop here?
Do you want to close that? Because I know it's designed to be closed. And she says, oh, God, never. And then so we closed it for all the cupboards. They left that scene in. So the first thing that you see is all... But she didn't really care because she was... Again, she says, but this is the coffee station if you want a coffee.
But they have one really cool room upstairs and it's... There's nothing in it. Like, there's no furniture. So you go in. Do you want to lie on the floor? Do you want to sit in the corner? Yeah. So they have it for parties, they have it for people come into their house and just read poetry. It's a space that is whatever you want it to be. And I've never been, it was kind of magical in a way.
Like, you're looking at me, this is where I say, your jaw has just dropped.
I mean.
But it is. But you have to watch it because when you're in it, like she explains it. And Camille is an architect. But because of the music, she kind of layers that on top of it and makes the place feel kind of like poetic. It's unusual, very unusual, but very, very cool.
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Chapter 5: How does Dermot Bannon connect with celebrities through their homes?
Sorry, sorry.
I keep forgetting. So my pal Clodagh and Harry, her husband, do you know Harry? No. Anyway, I didn't think so. But but they live on the grounds of Downton and they and it is just spectacular over there. Like that was a real treat. And she cooked for us like she did the whole hog. Like so when we arrived, she has she got an old vintage car for her for her birthday. For her big round birthday.
And she collected me in that. And that's on camera. I did the most cringy line when she collected me. She said, do you want a ride? And I said, you know what I answered.
No, I don't actually. I think what you said is I would love to be in your car.
Yes, that's what I should have said. But anyway, of course, and then the producers always leave my little fluffs in. So but it's in the middle of the English countryside on the grounds of Downton Abbey. It's the most magical place. It's like something out of Harry Potter. There's this one room that is completely engulfed in wisteria. And that's where you have dinner. And it is unbelievable.
Beautiful. You have another show. Oh, yes, I do. Yes. Come to your senses.
Yeah, I do. I do four episodes normally a year of a TV show. And then when I do another one, they put the two of them on on the one night. So come to your senses is on at half six on Sunday. It's it's it's it's a little bit more serious than than than celebrity super spaces. But it's it's a slice. I thought. They asked me, what would you like to do?
If you were looking at the census, what would you like to do? And I said, look, I'd love to see what an Irish town, a small Irish town was like 100 years ago and take a slice through it. And that's what we did. So we picked a town, Capiquin, because it was near where my dad was from. And I always loved Capiquin growing up.
We used to drive through it because I have an aunt and an uncle who lived there. because it was like a small little city. You know, it had, you know, all Irish towns have got, like if you drive into a small little Irish town, they still have buildings that look like they could be courthouses or, you know, the bank that was in the centre. And then they have the small shops.
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