Design News

Recently Prospero, the export manager for Vondom came to visit the KE-ZU showroom all the way from Spain.   On a whirlwind overseas tour meeting, greeting and spreading the Vondom word, Prospero came to talk to KE-ZU staff about exciting new collections soon to drop from the cutting edge supplier, including seating collections, outdoor rugs and a whole new direction in...

Take a back seat Emerald (and the pants I bought last month). There’s a new hue in town! Excitingly, Pantone have released their 2014 colours, including naming their colour of the year – Radiant Orchid. The soon-to-be-everywhere colour named this morning by Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute says the colour Denotes creativity, purple family, innovation, colour...

Nanimarquina’s News rug reminisces the graphic technique so often used in advertising, its shape re-contextualized utilising the same colour as its inspiration to create a visually striking floor piece from the Spanish rug manufacturer. Recently arriving in the KE-ZU showroom with two cousins (read the Blog posts about Topissimo and Rangoli here), News is the design by Martí Guixé providing...

The second of the three Nanimarquina rugs new to the KE-ZU showroom is Topissimo. This fun collection is inspired by polka-dots, these dots protruding and coming to life from the rug giving it a sense of playfulness and depth.   These shapes form an exploration of the rug’s texture and provide a canvas to play with pattern and colour.  The result...

Vondom’s Chemistubes takes inspiration from sterile science laboratories and utilises decontextualization (what a great word!) to reinterpret the classic chemist tube into a versatile vase and planter which can easily feel at home in any space. By increasing the size and scale, the pieces transform themselves into fun, functional specimens for the home and office, bringing with them a playfulness...

The showroom floor here at KE-ZU has recently seen some action; it was overhauled for Saturday Indesign by Dana of Yellowtrace and now plays host to some great new floor coverings by Spanish rug manufacturer Nanimarquina. We’ll let you know about all of the pieces we’ve brought out from Spain shortly, but first cab off the rank is Rangoli –...

Graphic design is a visual language, one without boundaries, it is free and beautiful – hence the reason it is being explored in 100 Ideas That Changed Graphic Design by Steven Heller and Veronique Vienne.  It is the latest addition to Laurence King’s Publishing’s popular 100 Ideas series. “Our aim,” they say, “is to determine, define, discuss and illustrate the...

It’s happening again! KE-ZU supplier and purveyor of incredible lamps of plywood LZF Lamps are nominated for another award stemming form their ever-successful High Fidelity collection. The collection has already won two Red Dot Design Awards, and now one of its stars, the Escape suspension designed by Ray Power is nominated in the Pendant Light category at the Interior Design...

Andreu World, one of Europe’s finest furniture manufacturers based in Valencia Spain are well known for their beautiful woodwork. A favourite of designers in the KE-ZU catalogue is the Andreu World collection of wooden chairs that lend themselves perfectly for installation in hospitality spaces as well as around dining tables in the home. Set in our headlights at the minute...

We’re all blown away with the work of Bot & Dolly – a US design and engineering firm that specializes in automation, robotics and filmmaking and comprises a small bunch of super technical and creative folk who have unleashed to the world their latest design installation “Box”. KE-ZU supplier LZF Lamps sent us this video which made Vimeo Staff Pick...