Denise O’Connor
Denise O’Connor, class of 1991, architect, interior designer and founder and managing director of Optimise Design
Denise holds a degree in architecture from Richview School of Architecture in UCD. After graduating in Dublin she moved to London where she worked on residential, healthcare and office schemes including the award-winning headquarters for Holiday Extras for which she was project architecture at Walker and Martin. In 2005, she returned to Dublin and set up architecture interior design consultancy Optimise Design.
Denise is an architecture and interiors columnist for the Irish Times and a contributor for HOUZZ. She is also a regular contributor to various other publications and also gives lectures on a range of topics. She was a presenter for the first series of the RTE TV show ‘The design Doctors’ and is the creator and name behind the successful paint collection for Dulux called Signature Collection.