About 

Chantal Fortune is a Collector and Proprietor of Fortune’s Antiques & Interiors.

She is an Antique Dealer and Interior Decorator.

She has a great passion for all things beautiful and old. She has a small garden workshop and sell online.
She is charming, charismatic and has an aesthetically pleasing eye for interiors. She is actively involved with Arklow Pottery and keeping the memory alive through social media and promoting the history of it and the importance as one of our National Crafts. She owns a wonderful collection of Arklow Pottery and is cataloguing the early back stamps and it’s social & design history.

Chantal studied Antiques and Fine Arts at The Institute of Professional Auctioneers and Valuers, Dublin, Ireland. Wrote her Thesis on “Antique Irish Lace” and very cleverly won “Most Enthusiastic Student of the Year”.

She studied Interior Design at the Interior Design Academy of Ireland.

Also Fashion Design and again won “Fashion Student of the Year”. Did her A-levels in Art, History of Art & English Literature. Attended boarding school in both England and India.

A passionate interest in Art, Architecture, History and Gardening.

Chantal was a Member of The Antiques Young Guns when it was active  http://www.antiquesyoungguns.co.uk/dealers/fortunes-antiques-interiors.html

A Member of The Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. http://rsai.ie/  

A Member of The Guild of Irish Lace Makers. 

Owns an amazing Collection of Antique Lace, including important Irish pieces. Goal in life is to open an Antique Irish Lace Museum…