Sunlight Chambers, Dublin

Sunlight Chambers is a commercial office building on the corner of Parliament Street and Essex Quay in the Temple Bar area of Dublin.

It was designed by architect Edward Ould in an Italianate[1] style and was named after Lever Brothers' Sunlight detergent brand.

[3] In 1899, the brothers leased land opposite Grattan Bridge on the banks of the River Liffey to set up a Dublin branch of their company.

This was unusual for the area,[5] which was dominated by genteel Georgian and Victorian architecture that tended to be externally restrained and internally decorative.

[6] According to Ireland's National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, the building is marked by distinctive faience panels that depict the history of soap production.