Classical female head with festoon of fruits and flowers, Tyler & Son's (formerly Kylemore Cafe), O'Connell Street, by Albert Power, 1918
Albert Power, decorative stonework, corner of Earl Street and O'Connell Street, Dublin, 1918. Photograph: Power family archive.
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Date
1918
Medium
Stone
Location
Corner of Earl Street and O'Connell Street, Dublin
Collection
works

In 1918, Albert Power carved decorative stonework for the building on the corner of Earl Street and O’Connell Street, Dublin — at the time home to the Kylemore Cafe, later occupied by Tyler & Son’s. The carving features a classical female head set within a festoon of fruits and flowers, in keeping with the decorative classical idiom Power used across his other commercial commissions of the period on O’Connell Street, including the Munster & Leinster Bank (1917), the Royal Bank of Ireland (1919), and the Hibernian Bank (1921).

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