New York City. For so long arguably the most famous city of the world. A powerhouse of many things important; commerce, finance, media, art, fashion technology, education and entertainment – New York City is home to some of the worlds most recognized landmarks and buildings – aided of course by the uncountable amounts of films and television filmed in the...
Sandy Skoglund is a US based artist, studied and trained in all things creative; studio art and art history, intaglio printmaking, and multimedia art. With an insatiable thirst for knowledge, the fascinating artist is self-taught in photography, and process-oriented art production through the techniques of mark-making and photocopying. Seeing Sandy shine is where all these elements come together – occurring...
We like to think of ourselves as pretty new-age. A forward thinking people free form the shackles of the unnecessary political correctness of times past. Take our former (and soon to be reinstated) hold music for example, should you ever have previously been placed on hold whilst on the line to one of our friends here in the showroom you...
We are absolutely loving the installation work of Christopher Janney, American artist or “sound architect” as we understand he goes by! You’ll find itself at the Miami International Airport (like landing in Miami wasn’t fun enough!) and goes by the name ‘Harmonic Convergence’. Harmonic Convergence is an interactive sound and light installation, which was constructed in a walkway of the...
Well! Our Furniture Free Friday post last week about Chromatophobia was not easy. Writing a post and discussing all the things we love that are black and white (and not furniture), whilst we sit here in the KE-ZU showroom which has a great array of furniture pieces in black and white silently being ignored. So we thought it was time...
The simple joy that we get from reading some of the entries on Letters of Note is just delicious. Letters of Note is pretty self-explanatory, but generally, the website publishes (by definition alone) letters of note – correspondence passing between two parties, which the world may have forgotten, or never seen without the power of the internet, and probably some...
Green Square, a complex intersection in Alexandria, a neighbourhood packed with design practices, furniture showrooms, Australia’s #1 business park, a heap of creative go-getters, and the home of KE-ZU looks set to become home to a bustling epicentre of culture for the ever growing area just south of central Sydney – said to be Australia’s largest urban development at this...
A piece that needs little introduction, the Gaulino Chair, designed Barcelona native Oscar Tusquets in 1987 has since become a modern Spanish classic and a point of reference in sculptural furniture design. Recently relaunching the iconic chair is KE-ZU supplier bd Barcelona. The sculpted chair was awarded the Industrial Design Prze in 1989 and the Adi-Fad in 1990. We’ve shown...
We should start this Furniture Free Friday with a definition: Chromatophobia An abnormal aversion to colours or to certain colours. We found out about this phobia from a wonderful anecdotal article by Michael Bierut. For most people, colour is basic element of our daily lives that we use for comfort, inspiration, practicality, etc. Doing a prancy 360 in the KE-ZU...
Here at the ‘ZU we have a bit of a fascination for Spain. We aren’t alone – the world has an ever expanding love affair with the skilled European State, and with good reason. A land bearing some of the worlds most successful and well-known creatives in history is worthy of a humble mention here on the KE-ZU Blog. The...