Bryan O'Sullivan featuring the Bembo Credenza

My name is Bryan O'Sullivan and I am an Interior Designer

London and New York, almost 50/50

We have apartments in both. In London we're in Barbican. Architectural Digest recently featured that apartment, where we have our gorgeous Orior red leather sideboard. In New York we're on the Lower East Side, on East Houston and Clinton. Our office is at Varick and King, so we're within walking distance.

My husband James and our son Cosmo, who just turned one. We don't have any pets currently. I would love a dog and Cosmo is absolutely obsessed with dogs. He calls them wah wahs. Every time he sees a dog he is completely obsessed so I think eventually we have to get him a dog.

I am most influenced by the 1920s, 30s, 40s French designers: Jean Michel Frank, Andre Arbus, Rene Prou, Royere.

I'm from Ireland, born in County Kerry. I can go way back with Orior to when I was 19 or 20. I studied hospitality management for a year in university and then decided that it wasn't for me, and I wanted to study architecture instead. I was going to take a year off, and my dad suggested I work at an architecture firm in Dublin to decide if that was what I really wanted to do. I worked for a little firm called Duff Tisdall. They were architects and interior designers but they also had a tiny interiors shop. And they used to sell Orior furniture. That was my first time to come across Orior.

I have a few little things from my grandparents' house. My grandad was a builder who restored churches, and a self-taught designer with a really good eye. He had a very cool house, with a studio where he'd draw on an old drafting board. All around the studio were samples of old stained glass and millwork. So I have a few things from his house, including a little brass dog, some armchairs he designed and some dining chairs he also designed. He was a real role model for me.

[Laughs] There is nothing really left after you are a parent, and you work. There's no other time left.

I love Jacques Adnet's furniture and a lot of his furniture is leather clad, like the Bembo credenza, it also has hand stitching. I love that detail

It currently lives in our apartment in Barbican. It's in our main living room and we use it for storing a few fancy sets of cutlery and dinner

Cosmo. I work and I also have to travel so I always feel like I don't get enough time with him.

I think it is unbelievably important. We always try to work with artisans as much as possible for everything. Working with things that are hand made by artisans who have a trade and a knowledge that's been passed down over the years layers your project or product so much more rather than something mass produced in a factory.

Oh, this is a good story. There's a Friday night talk show in Ireland which is called The Late Late show. Once a year they do the Late Late Toy Show, which is at the end of November on the run up to Christmas. It's the most watched program on Irish TV for the whole year. Every kid is obsessed with it.

Every year they pick 3 kids to review toys on the show. My brother and I were picked as a double act to go on. We made a little old-fashioned Irish stool with wooden legs and a woven grass top - it came in a kit. That is one of the first things I remember making.

We were never really allowed to go to McDonalds but my mother brought us the day after as a treat, and the guy behind the counter said "oh look, it's the superstars." And we literally thought we had made it, that we'd be signing autographs for the rest of our lives.

Good things take time like.. a good stew. An Irish stew. And it gets better after a few days. Leave it in the fridge for two days and reheat it.

A really comfortable armchair that also has a good shape. I think if you're going to be immortalized you want to be in a cozy room, and that room in our house is the TV room den. I would think if I had to be placed in a room I'd want to be there - as a really comfy, nicely proportioned armchair. Anyone sitting in it will be happy.