March 2014

Their 2013 campaign to accompany the release of their High Fidelity collection broke the mould of design branding, and earned them a well-deserved Red Dot Design Award for Communication in Design. LZF Lamps' branding collection included an animated film, graphically branded posters for each piece of the collection, together with an accompanying song that epitomized the concept and nature of...

Quickly and expertly expanding their range of outdoor rugs and carpets, Spanish manufacturer Vondom employs the ever-popular camouflage print in their new floor covering Camo by Ramon Esteve. Again utilizing the skills of Spain’s Ramon Esteve (creator of Vondom’s super popular Faz and Vela collections), Camo is sure to impress the most fastidious of fashionistas – particularly with its recent...

Flying carpets Nanimarquina rugs now fly with the global courier FedEx reducing lead times on most rugs to less than 2 weeks....door to door in metropolitan areas. Below is a small selection of the Nanimarquina collection, to see the entire catalogue please click here.

Designers Claudio Dondoli and Marco Pocci first met at Florence’s prestigious Faculty of Architecture in the early 1980’s.   Following their time studying together, and a shared interest in drama and theatre, they founded Archirivolto Design in Colle Val D'Elsa.  For the past 15 years, working with major design brands including Bonaldo, Pedrali and Segis, this Tuscan design studio has heavily concentrated...

Santa CruzImage courtesy Andres Amador If you’re lucky enough to live in California then you of course know all the obvious benefits: warm climate, beautiful landscape, a former Hollywood Governor and of course the artworks of Andres Amador. If you don’t frequent the sunny Cali beaches too often, you’re now in for a treat. Amador, with the help of...

  The Cement Wood Lamp provides the perfect balance between the coarse cold texture of concrete and the warmth and softness of wood by effortlessly combining the two contrasting materials. This is the first design by Decha Archjananun available through KE-ZU.  This flourishing Thai designer delivers the Cement Wood Lamp under the Thinkk Studio brand for French label Spécimen Éditions. Archjananun, who won the Elle Deco Thailand...

A collaboration between iconic graphic designer Milton Glaser and Spanish rug manufacturer Nanimarquina has resulted in the astounding Africa and Shakespeare in Africa collections. 84 year old Glaser is better known for founding New York Magazine and his prolific graphic design (the I ? NY and DC Comics bullet logos and posters for Bob Dylan and Sony). Glaser uses his signature style...

Following the wildly successful Parisian Maison & Objet, 2014 sees the inaugural Maison&Objet Asia! Kicking off today for four days in Singapore, M&O Asia houses a selection of exhibitions with a strong focus on design in the region. Three KE-ZU suppliers are showing at the fair, bd Barcelona, Nanimarquina and Kenneth Cobonpue; the latter to be named the inaugural M&O...

Straight from the horses mouth!  In this case the horse is our Director Mark. Living the KE-ZU dream and filling his dining room with staff favourite Table B by Konstantin Grcic for Spanish manufacturer bd Barcelona, it also becomes apparent that he’s a bit of a stylist-come-photographer! Each day taking photos of his flowers blooming against the extruded aluminum of...

Image Courtesy 2Cellos Bucking trend for classical music and injecting new life is the Croatian duo 2Cellos.  By definition, yes 2Cellos consists of two cellists who take on modern pop and rock favourites, their first video was a classical take on Michael Jackson’s Smooth Criminal – the official video for that cover has been seen over 2.5 million times...