About the designer
Irenie Cossey
Irenie Cossey is a design consultant, interior designer, and curator, and the founder of London-based Irenie Studio. With over twenty years of experience across architecture, design, color, styling, and curation, her work spans private residential projects, innovative product design, illustration, and installations.
She has collaborated with leading studios including Barber Osgerby, Universal Design Studio, Map Project Office, Luciano Giubbilei Studio, Softroom Architects, and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, and has consulted for brands such as Mutina, Vitra, Rimowa, and British Airways.
Originally from Dublin, Cossey is a graduate of the Architectural Association (AADIP & RIBA Part II) and holds a BA in Environmental and Spatial Design from Technological University Dublin (formerly DIT). She is a registered member of the BIID and a Lifetime Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Chatter
The Chatter Collection was inspired by an 1880s milk bottle discovered buried beneath the floorboards of a neglected Neo-Jacobean home in London during its renovation by designer Irenie Cossey. The house’s eccentric character led Cossey to take an Alice in Wonderland approach—inviting J. Hill’s Standard to follow her “through the looking glass” and respond to this singular object, still compelling after more than a century underground.
Echoing Alice’s “Drink Me” moment, Irenie Studio and J. Hill’s Standard explored what happens when scale is distorted—stretching and warping the milk bottle’s familiar silhouette into a series of handblown glass vessels that feel theatrical, slightly surreal, and quietly playful. From petite bud vases to larger open forms, each piece carries its own personality. Together, they create a quiet dialogue between objects—simply, Chatter.
