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Clodagh
Founder
Clodagh Design

For the 5-Star Six Senses Kaplankaya hotel and spa on the Turkish
Riviera, Clodagh created a garden with fragrant night flowers that
bloom as the moon rises over the bay. "That's not an experience
you're likely to forget," she says. In fact, the celebrated designer
eschews convention to design holistic, one-of-a-kind experiences. "I
have no boundaries," she says. "I flow everywhere."
Her career started after she suffered a debilitating horse-riding
accident at 17 years old that left her bedridden and seeking meaning.
She dropped her many other names and founded a couture fashion
atelier in Dublin, dressing a who's who of high society that included
celebrities and European and American VIPs. In the mid-1970s,
she "changed husbands, countries, and careers," she says, opening a
small interior design shop in Spain. Since relocating to Manhattan
in the '80s, she has completed projects in 30 countries, each imbued
with her sustainably guided, high-minded design sense.
Always pushing in a new direction, Clodagh exhibited some of

Six Senses Kaplankaya, Turkey
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