Interior design displays a real passion

Jan 11 2007 by Debbie Johnson, Liverpool Daily Post

Debbie Johnson walks into the brightly-lit world of Agent Marketing's co-founder, Paul Corcoran

PAUL CORCORAN is a co-director of Liverpool-based marketing firm, Agent - but his sense of style is hardly undercover.
 
The 25-year-old lives in a flamboyantly decorated flat in Henry Street, where he enjoys a work-hard, play-hard lifestyle.
 
He has a taste for colour; for comfort, and for . . . lamps.

"I have six lamps in the living room, and seven in the bedroom," he says. "I blame my mother. She's one of these women who as soon as she does a room up, she wants to change it again, so I picked up on that and I'm always adding to things, and thinking about changing them."
 
Paul founded Agent Marketing last May with Jayne Moore and Wayne Malcolm. He had completed a BA and a Masters at John Moores University, and before long decided to start his own firm.
 
He says: "I am passionate about what I do - I love it, and I am good at it. I'm also not one of those people who expects the finer things in life to just drop at their feet - I have a work ethic. There was not a job in marketing out there that I wanted to do, so I decided to start my own place, the kind of business where I would like to work."

Since then, award-winning Agent has gone from strength to strength, with a varied range of clients for whom they provide marketing services, branding, sponsorship and training. Their most recent coup was beating off com-petition from bigger London-based agencies to win the spon- sorship marketing deal for the UK Film Centre at the Cannes Film Festival.
 
Paul says: "We were delighted to get that, and I'm really looking forward to it. The business is thriving, and between work and my social life, I spend a lot of time in the city centre, so having a home here makes real sense. It also means I want my home to be special, somewhere I feel happy and comfortable. When I need to feel down-to-earth, I run back home to my family in Huyton, and they soon see to that, but the rest of the time Henry Street is ideal."
 
The building was constructed in 1766, but has been redeveloped to a high standard in recent times by the Beetham Organization. The building is fronted by an impressive black wooden door, complete with stone stairs and imposing brass knocker.