Design News

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...

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...

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...

Isn’t this geniusly simple little creation adorable?   Don’t let its looks fool you though, whilst the Waf table lamp by Israeli designer Asaf Weinbroom for Hive may look good, it’s also a rather clever. Comprising two sheets of maple veneer fastened together with a button, Waf pays homage to the movement of mechanical objects and cleverly fuses function; the top...

Congratulations to Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu of Neri & Hu Design and Research Office - Wallpaper* Magazine's joint Designer of the Year 2014!  A great achievement for two insanely gifted people and no doubt a fabulous way to kick off 2014 - surely a busier year than ever for the duo. The Neri & Hu range for De La...

Got 3 minutes and 44 seconds today? Course you do, it’s the weekend! Spend the time checking out Vondom’s latest video – a beautiful package showcasing some of their latest designs available at KE-ZU. See the entire Vondom catalogue available at KE-ZU here.

Design is what links creativity and innovation. It shapes ideas to become practical and attractive propositions for users or customers. Design may be described as creativity deployed to a specific end This writer remembered reading this definition of design by Sir George Cox many years ago, yet it hadn’t resurfaced until reading about a socially-conscious organization, charged with a mission...

A huge KE-ZU congratulations to KE-ZU supplier Chorus Furniture for designer Simon Pengelly's Theo collection recently winning a prestigious 2013 Wood Award for the production made furniture category!  This follows Theo receiving a Designers Guild Mark, both accolades rewarding high-quality design and production in The United Kingdom.  The judges described Theo as A successful piece of engineering in wood, in...

For 40 years, Spanish manufacturer Sancal has been assisting spaces around the world to reach their full potential of style and comfort by providing high-quality, well-designed furniture pieces and after forty years they’ve set their sights on themselves – redesigning the factory to include small showroom areas and commissioning large scale murals by various artists, designing dining rooms and new...

It’s delivery time at the Zu! The showroom was alive this week with new product being unloaded by our warehouse lads and unpacked by staff under the careful eye of Lidia our showroom manager (who, it must be said, was a gun on coffee duty). The entire staff pool get so excited when new furniture arrives at the showroom. ...