June 2013

I like Victoria Beckham.  During my formative years listening to pop music and attempting to find a suitable musical style to which I could call my taste I’ll admit that she was my least favourite Spice Girl.  Her dancing consisted of bending one knee, dragging a one-handed finger point from left to right all the while sporting a doe eye...

Fabio Novembre, Italian architect and designer and evident wordsmith/prophet is the newest collection of designers whose work is available in the form of fabulous furniture available at KE-ZU. Rolling out as part of the new collection for Spanish manufacturer Vondom at Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2013 is Novembre’s “f3” set of outdoor furniture, no doubt destined for international greatness (see...

On a gloomy day, let’s brighten it up with unofficial flower day at KE-ZU! The striking nanimarquina collection Formosa above is based on genuine pictorial works by the recognised contemporary artist Michael Lin. Formosa, recalling the old name given by Potugese navigators to the island of Taiwan in the 16th century, strives to transfer the painter's concept to a carpet...

It may not be Spring, but that hardly matters.  My housemate buys a lot of fresh flowers.  She constantly ensures that the house is smelling sweet and looking beautiful – there’s something gentle and peaceful in the delicacy of a flower – they represent a quality of life that brings joy and delight into a space. Not always, in the...

Indecasa, the company widely heralded as pioneers in the aluminium furniture field – innovators since 1963 in the process.  Doing some simple mathematics, Indecasa is now celebrating 50 years of designing with aluminium. Throughout its history, Indecasa has become renowned for developing its aluminium furniture production, in the belief that an anodised finish will show this material to its full advantage...

Today’s MMM comes in the form of another anecdote. A few years ago I lamented to a friend about not having any new music to listen to as (and my friends will gladly point out) my small rotation of classics was getting rather tiresome. A simple scribble on a piece of paper led me to discover Australian blues singer-songwriter C.W...

Our friends and KE-ZU supplier over at Artifort shared the video below with us. The video is a very sweet and funny Dutch Toyota advertisement, comically evidencing how a smaller car may just save the day when it comes to your grandchilds birthday (and how stunt carparking can be fun anywhere, really!).  The fun part for us?  The cute birthday...