January 2014

It seems that luck is falling our way this week!  With Chinese New Year landing today, we transition from year of the water snake to year of the wooden horse. It’s with luck then that we have our own horse en route to become our mascot for the proceeding year!  Our little mate Rosinante is coming to join the KE-ZU...

The KE-ZU showroom is aflutter following the release of Kenneth Cobonpue’s latest collection Calyx. The Filipino design gun has done it again! This time offering an outdoor range that bridges the aesthetic and material gap between indoor and outdoor furniture. Calyx supports itself on a strong base and grows up and out to welcome its occupant.  Calyx, by definition reads...

Ghost, the latest creation from Spanish rug manufacturer nanimarquina is hauntingly beautiful. Designed by Marti Guixé, the man who brought us News and Extended, this rug features black and white motifs of birds, flowers, horses and deers, which like ghosts weave in and out of sight. Released this month at Imm Cologne, Ghost is a modern take on a classic...

If you’re an Australian reader, we hope you’re set to have a great day off and enjoying a long weekend!    We send apologies to our international readers who can’t participate in our Australia Day public holiday! Yesterday’s annual Triple J Hottest 100 countdown was a sensational mix of diverse songs, culminating in Australian artist Vance Joy’s Riptide taking out the...

We just came across this ingenious venture and had to share it! To celebrate the New Year, the creative residents of the Contilla Retirement Group in Essen, Germany have produced quite possibly the cutest calendar ever! Sure to be viral sensation, the calendar features the residents recreating iconic moments in film. Our favourite is the lead image featuring 86...

The Neri & Hu Design and Research Office were recently named joint Designer of the Year at the 2014 Wallpaper* Design Awards. Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu are ones to watch this year. Here they talk to Cindy Allen, the Editor-in-Chief of Interior Design magazine about their creative process.

No, not the Madonna song as the title suggests!  Have you picked up the latest Vogue Living?  We helped the VL team “set the scene in green” by providing EMU’s Re-Trouvé chair by Patricia Urquiola for this fabulous spread! In the words of Urquiola about Re-Trouvé: Inspiration came from the marvelous icon chairs of the '50's, so full of curls...

The ECCI (The Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation) has taken up residence in an 18th Century heritage listed building in Edinburgh. The premises saw a complete refurbishment of what was the Edinburgh University High School Yards building – and KE-ZU supplier Chorus Furniture was right there with them, assisting The ECCI to deliver an outstanding residence for the green machine...

There’s a few reasons why I’ve chosen Donna Summer for today’s addition of what we here at KE-ZU call Monday Music Madness. The (comparably to some other Australian cities, small, but still relevant) heat wave in Sydney appears to have passed.  With the word “hot” in the title there’s a heat reference. With the countdown on for the 2014 Academy...

In a world where we so often dream and fantasise yet are swiftly forced to return to reality, it’s nice to find a middle ground where reality can almost be the dream. This is where these two designers’ works shine.  Cutting out the middle ground between sketch and prototype, these furniture pieces are created from a sketch, and constructed using...