January 2013

We never tire of our suppliers’ international success. We are proud to bring to you the recipient of the 2013 Wallpaper* Design Awards - Best Domestic Design Rug Collection Award - Nanimarquina for the “Collage 1966” collection! Judged by a plethora of international creatives such as Rick Owens, Wang Shu, Julian Opie, Oki Sato, Ferran Adria and Farida Khelfa, the...

Ross Lovegrove, revered industrial designer and visionary is renowned for his flowing and organic inspired designs (some of which for suppliers bd Urban Transit and Bernhardt Design are available at KE-ZU) and has a passion for sustainability and forward thinking: …everything around is ( … ) open to new interpretation, we have gone to see a big physical change in...

There are many ways to go green, not all of them positive – let’s think shall we… there’s green with envy, green around the gills but perhaps you could just go ahead and get sustainable. This isn’t going to turn into an essay about the need for sustainability and thinking more eco-consciously… it’s going to be a DIY piece about...

Knottee is the newest creation by Kenneth Cobonpue for Hive . Handmade using synthetic fibre, Knottee is a woven piece available as either suspension or a floor lamp.  This vogue piece is available with the option of being specified with a wide, grey middle band and slimmer olive outer strips or the reverse: olive middle band with grey outer strips...

We’ve previously featured caravans on this blog, that one came in the form of an amazing food truck doing the rounds of San Francisco. Without fear of becoming known as a blog of the travelling wheels, today we’d like to bring to you a truly unique hotel which has found itself in Berlin, arguably the worlds capital of what’s-cool-right-now. By...

KE-ZU was proud to again partner with YellowTrace, celebrating their third anniversary by co-sponsoring the YellowTrace reader survey by offering the Jaime Hayon designed vase from the Showtime Collection for bd Barcelona.  The lucky winner we are pleased to announce is David Caon - Sydney based designer - well done David! The Loot! The winner!

Some may say our Nation’s Capital has little drawcards.  The new East Hotel, nestled in the grooviest quarter of Canberra stylishly refutes such a claim. Turning away from the dreary neutral tones of hotels of times past, the East Hotel drowns itself in contemporary styling, artfully pieced by Sydney’s Sally Hieatt (Sally Hieatt Interiors). The East Hotel is a dense...

We are absolutely loving Craig and Karl. “Who are Craig and Karl?” you may say.  Well, Craig and Karl (their self-portraits above and below) are friends who live in different parts of the world, Craig in New York City and Karl in London.  They are illustrators specialising in installation who collaborate daily on work creating bold and fun graphic work...

56th Studio is the multi-disciplinary Bangkok based design studio which is emitting some quirky and rather sensational ‘sarcastic commentary’ pieces working with chairs, wall décor, fabric, pillows and handbags.  Excitingly, they follow the mantra of “form follows story” – and you’ll see how! The design trio behind the studio combines entrepreneurial skills with design, marketing and graphic degrees, they describe...

Teresa Sapey, the talented Italian architect, interior and industrial designer has our attentions today, and not only because of the abundance of interesting and quirky photographs of herself, or her enviable design mantra: It is to move emotions that I work with spaces, I’d go for provoking just about any kind of feeling, no matter what it is (…whether like...