April 2013

Furniture Free Friday couldn’t come sooner, coming off the back of Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2013 and bringing with it a a reprieve from the inundation of incredible furniture on show at the moment which has more than just a little excited! With the Milano sensory overload continuing, we thought we’d bring to you a special piece for FFF. This...

We are absolutely loving, repeat, loving, this beautifully styled decadent piece by Belle Magazine’s super-talented Interior Design editor Steve Cordony. Featuring the lush Bardot Sofa by Jaime Hayon for Bernhardt Design, the pages form part of the Spy Trends pages of the April/May Issue of Belle.  Pick up a copy for yourself!

One of the most exciting companies doing the rounds these days is the Melbourne born Aesop range of skin care and accessories.  Utilising natural and organic products and spinning them into delicious (albeit inedible) products destined to make you feel better about being you. Their international sales now outweigh their domestic sales, and their name has become synonymous with good...

With the worlds largest and most coveted furniture fair kicking off in the magical Milano today (and if you’re lucky to be visiting the famed fair, don’t forget to grab a copy of our Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2013 guide here) we thought we’d take a little journey down memory lane and spend some time looking at a small portion...

Recently a friend of the ‘ZU gave us the scoop on his new enterprise, Design Unplugged. Cool name huh? We’re expecting big things from the new international online platform which reaches as far as Greenland.  Going by the name of “DUG”, the premise is pure design, unplugged. DUG says of their new venture: We’re not just a pretty face: interminable...

Another Friday has rolled around and today being our self-imposed ‘Furniture Free Friday’ we of course set out to find a suitable topic for discussion. Inspiration for these weekly entries comes from all over.  We see, we hear and, we discover things of note and we write about them.   This week, two interesting things of note were thrown at us...

Let us now go to London for the new ME Hotel, designed by Forster and Partners in London’s glamorous West End for the international Spanish based Hotel Group Melia.  Keeping up with its neighbours, the ME Hotel is a destination spot, fusing together organic shapes with severe cuts of the triangle. The Hotel takes a neutral palette is exceedingly striking...

Hoorah!  (again) KE-ZU supplier Andreu World are no stranger to awards, certainly not the prestigious Red Dot Award. Their Flexa collection, available at KE-ZU has been recognized with the Red Dot 2013 Award in the Best Design Product category!  Andreu World and Piergiorgio Cazzaniga were recognized in the Red Dot 2012 award for their Sail chair – also available at...