Brookwood Pottery

Brookwood Pottery was set up in 2012 by potter Elaine Fallon, and in 2021 she established a dedicated design shop and studio in Marino, on Dublin's northside, inside a former post office building. The space combines a working pottery studio with a retail shop, where Fallon sells her own ceramics alongside textiles, print, homeware and jewelry made by more than 40 other Irish craftspeople whose work she has chosen to stock, positioning Brookwood as much as a curated showcase for Irish design as a single maker's storefront. Fallon also runs hands-on pottery classes from the studio, ranging from introductory sessions to longer daylong workshops, giving visitors direct contact with the wheel-throwing and glazing techniques behind the shop's own stoneware. The result is functional, everyday ceramics -- mugs, serving bowls, and tableware -- made and sold from the same room where they are thrown and fired, rather than a design brand that outsources production or sells purely through a separate retail channel. Its location in a repurposed civic building, rather than a conventional high-street unit, has also made it a modest architectural landmark within Marino itself, a neighborhood originally laid out as one of Ireland's early planned garden suburbs.