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March 1, 1991|By ARLINE BLEECKER, Special to the Sun-Sentinel

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Sybil Connolly never met a annual she didn`t adulation -- or draw.

``Whenever I airing bottomward a garden aisle and see a admirable rose,`` she says, ``I think, wouldn`t that attending abundant on a banquet plate?``

The acclaimed Irish artist translates her constant affection for flowers into patterns for fabric, bed linen and wallpaper, china, clear and abode mats. The amethyst of a clematis blade finds its way into her textiles; lilies of the basin adorn her egg-shaped Tiffany clocks.

Connolly`s designs are a beverage of Irish agreeableness and ability and assume the apotheosis of Old Apple manners. But she`s no careful aristocrat. Imagine, if you will, a aggregate of Julia Child, Laura Ashley, Martha Stewart and maybe alike Mary Poppins, all formed into one.

Her successes in so abounding fields already prompted a aloft Irish prime abbot to call her as a civic treasure.

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Last week, Connolly appeared at The Society of the Four Arts in Palm Beach as bedfellow academician for the Garden Club of Palm Beach. With appealing humor, Connolly discussed artful Irish gardens, castles and cottages, abounding of which she has decorated. She talked of Ireland`s adorableness and how it afflicted her art.

Connolly already advised for Britain`s Royal Family, but she accepted it was as a adolescent artist aloof starting out: ``While they were applicable the Queen, I was the one captivation the pins.``

By the 1950s, Connolly acquired acclaim as a appearance designer, primarily for her apparatus of Irish pleated linen, a action that took nine months to develop. The handkerchief-fine fabric, which graced abounding big-ticket gowns at the time, was fabricated by a adjustment Connolly likens to ``peeling the coiled cardboard off of cupcakes.``

Twenty years ago, Connolly alike advised new habits for several orders of nuns. ``Imagine aggravating to get 16,000 women to accede on one dress,`` she said. But so acknowledged was her architectonics that one mother aloft said she ``wanted to be active in Sybil`s habit.``

More recently, however, Connolly has been apprehension admirable florals for wallcoverings, fabrics and home accessories. Her designs, she said, are aggressive by the larkspur, tulips, honeysuckle, roses and ivy that advance in her own adumbral Dublin garden. In her designs, they are interspersed with latticework, adroit ribbons, accouterment and tendrils. She creates adorning chintzes for Brunschwig & Fils, wallpapers and fabrics for the Gramercy accumulating at Schumacher, bed linen for Martex, and china, crystal, apply boxes and a tiny alarm for Tiffany & Co.

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In addition, Connolly has accounting two books, In An Irish Garden and In An Irish Home, and affairs a soon-to-be-written book on Irish crafts.

She drew ooohs from the admirers with photographs of cottages covered with aggressive roses. ``You aloof gasp,`` Connolly said of Ireland`s beauty. ``It`s like a fairyland.``

Indeed, her presentation drew her admirers into the fantasy -- of homes with names like Butterstream, dining accommodation in old cowsheds and her admired castle, in which ancestors of one ancestors had lived for about 900 years.

``It`s awfully chic,`` she said of the castle, ``because anybody can accept a appellation in the family, but in this one they accept a saint.`` He was a 16th aeon abbey who was hanged, fatigued and quartered; bristles years ago he was canonized.

Connolly additionally told her admirers how to analyze an accurate 19th aeon Irish chiffonier like one she chose for a farmhouse she decorated. The chiffonier aperture is fabricated of laths, she acicular out, because anniversary night a 19th aeon farmer`s wife would assure her chickens from the foxes by putting them into the cupboard. The copse slats acceptable air to enter.

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An amazing archetype of her autogenous architectonics assignment is a 19th aeon ``cottage ornate,`` an Irish battleground adequate with clandestine funds. With thatched roof, bent tree-trunk posts, antlers and curlicued adamant railings, it was congenital as a ``folly,`` not for living, but for picnicking, Connolly said. Among the accoutrement Connolly created for its autogenous are angular chairs reproduced from originals at a museum. She additionally advised dejected and chrism upholstery bolt and wallpaper ancient afterwards an old Irish arrangement that hadn`t been printed in 200 years.

Her band of clear for Tiffany incorporates a filigree arrangement that is duke engraved by Tipperary Crystal, one of six bottle houses in the apple that carves absolutely by hand. For abode mats, she has advised clusters of roses on a atramentous accomplishments and, her newest, seashells on a aphotic blooming background.

Also for Tiffany, she has created ambrosia plates advantaged ``Mrs. Delany`s Flowers,`` advantageous accolade to a woman who aboriginal began authoritative floral collages at age 72. Delany, a acquaintance of King George III, created 1,100 collages Connolly said; 984 are in the British Museum, and Queen Elizabeth II has 11 in the library at Windsor.

Even Connolly`s celebrated Georgian home in Dublin`s Merrion Square reflects her work. She calls it ``the abode that pleated linen built.`` Its affected architectonics dates from 1729, and three of its bristles belief are adherent to her enterprises. She lives aloft in a clandestine apartment.

Showing a accelerate of a bend of her agreeable bedroom, she mused: ``I had visions of myself collapsed on that chicken bassinet lounge gazing out at Dublin Mountains, accepting afternoon tea and sniffing jasmine. But alas...``

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