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Mononymously named Clodagh is our founder and CEO. Clodagh grew up in the west of Ireland, in Moytura House, once the home of Oscar Wilde. At 17 she opened a couture fashion salon in Dublin that quickly led to licensing and consulting contracts with major department stores and international exports to the U.S. and as far afield as Australia.
Married with three children, she changed husbands, countries and careers in the ‘70s and moved to Spain, where she began to design residential, hospitality and landscape projects. She describes seeing the sunlight filter through the dust as demolition began on her first project—her own home in Spain—as the moment she found her true vocation.
In the mid ’80s she moved to New York City, opened her design studio, and with two partners opened a small design store in the East Village. Clodagh Ross + Williams was a launching pad for young designers, and served as a laboratory for Clodagh’s own creations. Vogue described it as “the design store of the decade”.
She has since become a powerhouse in the design world, renowned as a pioneer in green design, focusing on the impact of design on the well being of the denizens of this planet. She is much in demand as a speaker on these core principles of her life’s work. She has always been a passionate advocate for sustainability. This responsibility is baked into the philosophy of the studio she leads—as is her understanding that the key to wellness is cradling the mind, body, and spirit of the individual with a warmth that extends to all the senses.
An incessant traveler, she has an avocation for “sleeping around,” trying out different hotels and bedrooms, figuring out what to do–and what not to do–and what travelers really need. She avers that everyone should be as pampered a guest in their own home as they are in a good hotel.
Her camera is her accessory of choice when she travels. In 2019 she had her first solo exhibition of fine art photography, Ephemera, at Cheryl Hazan Gallery, Soho, New York.
Clodagh is the author of three books on design, is working on her fourth, and is determined to finally get the vegan cookbook she’s been cooking up forever off to press. She has been a committed vegan since the 1980s.
A deeply committed philanthropist, most notably for her tireless work for The Thorn Tree Project, Clodagh was honored to receive the Manfred Steinfeld Platinum Circle Humanitarian Award from Hospitality Design.
In 2021 Crain’s NY named Clodagh as one of their top female business owners.
Clodagh lives in New York with her husband Daniel Aubry, with children and grandchildren both nearby and spread across the globe
Married with three children, she changed husbands, countries and careers in the ‘70s and moved to Spain, where she began to design residential, hospitality and landscape projects. She describes seeing the sunlight filter through the dust as demolition began on her first project—her own home in Spain—as the moment she found her true vocation.
In the mid ’80s she moved to New York City, opened her design studio, and with two partners opened a small design store in the East Village. Clodagh Ross + Williams was a launching pad for young designers, and served as a laboratory for Clodagh’s own creations. Vogue described it as “the design store of the decade”.
She has since become a powerhouse in the design world, renowned as a pioneer in green design, focusing on the impact of design on the well being of the denizens of this planet. She is much in demand as a speaker on these core principles of her life’s work. She has always been a passionate advocate for sustainability. This responsibility is baked into the philosophy of the studio she leads—as is her understanding that the key to wellness is cradling the mind, body, and spirit of the individual with a warmth that extends to all the senses.
An incessant traveler, she has an avocation for “sleeping around,” trying out different hotels and bedrooms, figuring out what to do–and what not to do–and what travelers really need. She avers that everyone should be as pampered a guest in their own home as they are in a good hotel.
Her camera is her accessory of choice when she travels. In 2019 she had her first solo exhibition of fine art photography, Ephemera, at Cheryl Hazan Gallery, Soho, New York.
Clodagh is the author of three books on design, is working on her fourth, and is determined to finally get the vegan cookbook she’s been cooking up forever off to press. She has been a committed vegan since the 1980s.
A deeply committed philanthropist, most notably for her tireless work for The Thorn Tree Project, Clodagh was honored to receive the Manfred Steinfeld Platinum Circle Humanitarian Award from Hospitality Design.
In 2021 Crain’s NY named Clodagh as one of their top female business owners.
Clodagh lives in New York with her husband Daniel Aubry, with children and grandchildren both nearby and spread across the globe
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