Category: Klimmek News
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The Pencil Box
On a chilly day in December 2022, an out-of-the-blue email arrived that took me back over 40 years to the mid-1980s when I was a final-year student at the famous Parnham House College in Dorset. What I didn’t know back then was the background to a final year exercise that had been given to me…
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Festive Greetings from the Klimmek Furniture Team
As the festive season approaches, we want to focus on how lucky we are, living in a safe space with a roof over our heads, food in our bellies and not too much to worry about in a world where some unfortunately can’t say the same. We are thankful to be busy at Klimmek Furniture,…
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Farewell 2021
As we come to the end of 2021, it’s fair to say it’s been a year with challenges for all of us in different ways. Living with Covid has meant we’ve had to adapt how we live, work, and socialise. At Klimmek Furniture, like so many other businesses, we’ve had to work around lockdowns and…
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Knut Klimmek, The Man Behind the Award-Winning Klimmek Furniture Brand
Following an apprenticeship with furniture-maker Tom Roche in Tullamore, Knut Klimmek set off to Dorset in the UK. And it is there that he spent two years at the John Makepeace School for Craftsmen in Wood. On his return to Ireland, Knut founded Klimmek Furniture, now based in Rathcoole, south county Dublin. That was back…