Emma O'Kelly

Jan 15, 2025 | wallpaper.com | Emma O'Kelly

When Dr Jonathan Leary opened a group of social wellness clubs, Remedy Place, in Los Angeles in 2019, many doubted it would succeed. Instead of beauty, aesthetics and spa treatments, the 34-year-old chiropractor and concierge doctor would offer treatments with ‘a quick physiological challenge that brings out the most amplified version of ourselves and can build lasting connections’, he explains. Think: ice baths, saunas, hyperbaric chambers and more. Despite the naysayers, it worked.

Dec 1, 2024 | wallpaper.com | Emma O'Kelly

For years, British bathers have looked longingly at cities like Oslo and Helsinki with their buoyant waterfronts offering swim spots and saunas. Why, oh why, with our long, dark, cold winters, do we not have such distractions to warm the soul and lift the spirits? Well, now we do, thanks to Wyld sauna which has pitched up permanently at Princes Dock in Liverpool. This Finnish-style floating sauna seats 30, has access into the sea, two ice baths, cold barrels and heated and unheated outdoor showers.

Oct 26, 2024 | wallpaper.com | Emma O'Kelly

Tiny homes and cabins in the wild, like Golden House, come close up to the elements, but in rural Estonia at least, they are often dark with windows too small for a proper nature watch. To this end, brothers and ÖÖD founders Jaak and Andreas Tiik started making minimal, mirrored versions with floor-to-ceiling windows and placing them next to striking beauty spots all over their homeland.

Oct 23, 2024 | wallpaper.com | Emma O'Kelly

‘Artists from the Baltics were the most resourceful, and Finland sent in the most applications and displayed the highest quality works,’ explains Maret Sarapu, curator of the Tallinn Applied Art Triennial. A record 470 artists from the Baltics and the Nordics applied and 27 artists made it through. Their works are on display at the Kai Arts Center, a century old former submarine plant and cultural heart of the Noblessner harbour complex on the Tallinn waterfront.

Jun 27, 2024 | irishexaminer.com | Emma O'Kelly

It was a year to the day yesterday (June 27) that staff in RTÉ first came out en masse on the Donnybrook campus and at regional offices around the country to stand together and express our dismay and anger at the revelations of the previous days. Addressing my colleagues that day, I said that we, the staff, wanted the crisis that was unfolding to be of benefit to public service broadcasting here.