Design News

The eighth annual Esquire House was unveiled at the end of 2010 in Los Angeles'  Hollywood Hills. The Esquire House continues its tradition of re-invention, and bringing the Esquire tagline, "Man at His Best," vibrantly to life. The charity driven concept sees each room/space sponsored by a well known brand such as Hugo Boss, Absolut, Heineken and Ferragamo and in...

Only one year on from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) announcing Frank Gehry as it's architect charged with refurbishment of their Ultimo based Business Faculty: the design has been unveiled. Today in Sydney the "Crinkly, Wrinkly" faculty building with a glass and brick facade was unveiled with Gehry conceding controversy as an inevitable hurdle in Sydney-siders eventually coming to...

After many happy years in Surry Hills we are extremely excited to announce that this week we are packing up the truck and relocating to our brand new, state-of-the-art showroom in Alexandria, Sydney - designed by the multi-award winning team at Luchetti Krelle. Marrying the sleek glass-clad modernity of Alexandria's new Platinum Complex with all the famed KE-ZU brands you...

For what is fundamentally a minimising of detail and breaking down of matter into it's basic visual components, annunciating "The Digit Collection from nanimarquina and Cristian Zuzunaga", is one hell of a mouthful! Spanish by birth but now based permanently in London (after completing his studies at The Royal College of Art), Zuzunaga comes to textiles and flooring from a...

The Hyde: Sydney's most significant high-rise residential development since Harry Seidler's 'Horizon', was officially opened this morning by Lord Mayor and Member for Sydney: Clover Moore, bringing a close to 6 years of design, development and construction. At a breakfast function set in the building's light-filled lobby, surrounded by bubbling water gardens, guests heard Professor Jennifer Taylor (of the initial design competition...

Last night at Sun Studios, Sydney; the Inaugural EVOLVE AWARDS competition run by Designer Rugs for creative professionals to design a signature rug collection, was wrapped up and the winner of a trip to Milan was announced. After months and months of workshops across Australia and New Zealand the final entry count was a staggering 850 individual designs! Not...

An environmental conscience and a serve of good old Dutch courage has seen a novel reuse of discarded Newspaper spearheaded in Eindhoven City, Holland. 2009 Dutch Design Award Winners - Vij5, have collaborated with the very clever Mieke Meijer to develop an altogether new material for construction and manufacturing made entirely from renewable resources. Using pre-loved papers they tightly bind...

The classic Ronda Armchair  and Pigalle Table are familiar sights in cafes and homes across Europe and the US. EMU have now questioned why the grown ups should be having all the fun... so here are the table and chair's bright, bubbly offspring: Baby Ronda and Baby Pigalle.  A cool collection for the little ones. Maintaining the same standards and...

It would seem Vondom and its stable of acclaimed designers can do no wrong.  Over the past twelve months their product lines have been selected for use and exhibition at almost every major sporting and media event across their native Spain, as well as many abroad. Gran Hermano 2010 the twelfth season of Spain's Big Brother program launched last...

...but the 15 storey Ark Hotel in Changsha, China was erected in just 6 days! Sure, it's pre-fab, round the clock and wont win any awards for it looks but the logistics of the undertaking are mind-blowing. We also want to point out that if you watch the time-code and footage carefully enough, you might see us deliver and install...