April 2013

Here’s one we’ve been waiting for. Sancal’s Tierra Collection (as introduced in the video below, as well as the landscape of Yecla, Sancal’s home town) outlines the new collection from the Spanish manufacturer.  Tierra, translating to soil, earth, or ones homeland in Spanish.   Again working with bold shape and colour, Sancal has employed some serious design heavyweight to round out...

The film Get Yourself a College Girl of 1964 by the Sidney Miller is the beach house teen movie musical which formed the perfect platform for the Brazilian singer Astrud Gilberto to launch “The Girl from Ipanema”, the international Grammy award winning hit which we bring to you today. The Metrocolour film houses interior set decoration in an interesting mix...

One of the Philippines design minds pumped up his stand at Salone this year, Kenneth Cobonpue presented many new works, some of which an experimentation with lineal perception, others reintroducing staple pieces in bold new hues for what looks set to be a stellar year for the ever popular Cobonpue. TRAME Designed by Italian born Federica Capitani of her self-titled...

Hive is a collective of international creatives and artisans.  Led by the international design genius Kenneth Cobonpue, Hive cultivates an environment of creative freedom, merged with a strong conceptual sense of original lighting and planting product.   Falling into the larger Hive catalogue is their newest collection of innovative lighting product. ANGEL ‘Angel’ by celebrated jewellery and object designer Francis Dravigny...

Join us for a nostalgic trip today.  Surely, this blog Editor wasn’t the only one who had a bookshelf at home with his parents as a youngster filled with the vibrant yellow of the National Geographic Magazine.  Many weekend days spent pouring through them, no matter how outdated and wondering about the world at large.  I have my parents to...

Spain’s innovative VONDOM offers the glamour of a new sensory experience where the colours, texture and shape play an important role in creating exciting outdoor furniture. Vondom’s Milano campaign launched exciting and innovative new collections from internationally acclaimed designers such as Ross Lovegrove, Fabio Novembre and Ora Ito. Vondom continues to work with their signature materials and production methods in...

Bd Barcelona, the forever involved and impressive Spaniards presented some fabulous new concepts for their Milano 2013 campaign.  The new collection “Gardenias” by Jaime Hayon is a family of glamorous outdoor aluminum furniture and complementary terracotta accessories and Konstantin Grcic’s new additions to the innovative ‘Extrusions’ family, Bench B and Side Table B. GARDENIAS Designed by artist, sculptural and industrial...

LZF Lamps have had a bumper campaign at Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2013.  Their “High Fidelity” campaign was launched.  High Fidelity is something a little different in the furniture design world and the product produced from this concept is nothing but astounding.  Each new piece unveiled by LZF Lamps is accompanied by a piece of music originally composed by Rithma...

We’re contemplating complementing Furniture Free Friday with Monday Music Madness… or some alliteration like that. Before we kick off the Milan monster week where we bring to you KE-ZU supplier’s new collections over the week, we thought we’d shoot you something a little fun, jazzy and nude. Say hello to Thicke and Pharell Williams strutting their physical and vocal skills...

Designer Man Cave is a fabulous online platform run by our friend Kate Abdou - doing her bit to assist men to “live, look, work & play like a gentleman”. We were pleased to see that the wonderfully playful Samba pendant light by Brad Stebbing for Hive was featured on Designer Man Cave’s "Yellow Chroma" post recently. Head over to...