Events and Exhibitions

Back in April we supported InDesignLive with a very desirable incentive for readers to complete their online survey. We had a look around and consulted staff who indicated we should offer up one of our favourite designers’ pieces: a Jaime Hayon Showtime Vase from bd Barcelona.  Hayon’s identifiable and now iconic collection from bd Barcelona included these ceramic pieces in...

Carterwilliamson Architects recently took to an old cowshed in Glebe, Sydney.  Transforming the simple brick building into a feat of design and creating a unique urban residence for their clients. The Contemporist recently published a great piece on the design (available here), we were taken by the perfect installation of LZF Lamps' Agatha Suspension over the dining table in the...

You may have seen this fabulous installation of Artifort’s Tongue chairs in a distinct yellow on our Facebook page. Artifort’s Tongue Chair was designed by Pierre Paulin in 1967 and forms part of Artifort’s reissued range from the prolific designer, you can see the other Paulin designs available at KE-ZU here.  Formally known as Model 577, the Chair of course...

Now entering its lucky 13th year, the Andreu World design competition is open for submissions. The brief: design an innovative seat or table which aligns itself with the product philosophy of Andreu World, is available and viable for mass production, incorporates versatility and suitability for development in home, contract work markets etc. The prize:  3,000 Euros, together with some serious...

Let us now go to London for the new ME Hotel, designed by Forster and Partners in London’s glamorous West End for the international Spanish based Hotel Group Melia.  Keeping up with its neighbours, the ME Hotel is a destination spot, fusing together organic shapes with severe cuts of the triangle. The Hotel takes a neutral palette is exceedingly striking...

Teresa Sapey isn’t at all unfamiliar with the design of a hotel.  She’s designed the interiors for Veracruz Plaza in Valdepanas, Spain and managed to turn a carpark into a colourful and graphic delight in Madrid when collaboratively working on the Hotel Puerta América Project (see the KE-ZU blog post here). Turning her hand to Barcelona’s Hotel Pau, the interiors...

EMU is the Italian manufacturer of outdoor furniture which has an uncanny knack to specify and use hard materials such as sheet metal and steel in their furniture offerings and give the pieces a stunning lightness to the overall visual impact.  You can see from the EMU catalogue available at KE-ZU here. Their furniture assembly, which you’ll find perfectly situated...

KE-ZU was proud to again partner with YellowTrace, celebrating their third anniversary by co-sponsoring the YellowTrace reader survey by offering the Jaime Hayon designed vase from the Showtime Collection for bd Barcelona.  The lucky winner we are pleased to announce is David Caon - Sydney based designer - well done David! The Loot! The winner!

Some may say our Nation’s Capital has little drawcards.  The new East Hotel, nestled in the grooviest quarter of Canberra stylishly refutes such a claim. Turning away from the dreary neutral tones of hotels of times past, the East Hotel drowns itself in contemporary styling, artfully pieced by Sydney’s Sally Hieatt (Sally Hieatt Interiors). The East Hotel is a dense...

KE-ZU recently went to work with Kenneth Cobonpue’s “Little People” – installing a custom made screen in one of the newest bars on the Sydney scene, Grain Bar at the Four Seasons on George Street, Sydney. With Grain Bar offering a generous mix of quirky, fresh produced food (the likes of fresh oysters, hanger steaks, smoked trout poe) and delicious...