Events and Exhibitions

It's not that we're over-eaters or that we have a fixation on Italian foods but again, the KE-ZU Blog seems to have come full circle and we find ourselves talking about Pizza. Is that so bad? The difference this time is that we are firing out a big thumbs up to one of the coolest places in Sydney to...

The Interior Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) showcase the best of Australian design. First held in 2001, the prestigious awards program receives hundreds of submissions from across Australia each year and is recognised by the design community as the country’s pre-eminent design awards program. Whilst the award winners are actually announced in November at a gala event, for now, the...

LUCHETTI KRELLE WERE AWARDED THE: "2010 EMERGING DESIGN PRACTICE OF THE YEAR" AT THE INTERIOR DESIGN AWARDS! TO SEE WHAT ALL THE FUSS IS ABOUT SWING BY: WWW.LUCHETTIKRELLE.COM

For the want of a nail the shoe was lost... ..and so the rhyme goes, a ramshackle chain of events that ultimately see a battle lost and a kingdom conquered. Ok.... ok, so humour us for a moment: dismissing the tenuous shoe analogy and the context being that of a horse shoe, we can all concede (rather clumsily) that...

Design association RED in collaboration with ICEX, the Spanish Embassy's Economic and Commercial Office in New York and Surface Magazine, is running an exhibition lounge in the Grand Hotel Tribeca, New York City, comprising entirely Spanish products The event, which opened on the 13 May, coinciding with the ICFF fair, exhibits 16 Spanish companies:  including Bd Barcelona,  LZF Lamps...

2010 looks also to be another big year  for one of our favourite Spanish designers: Jaime Hayón.  The self professed “designer artist” has been recognised "Designer of the Year of Scènes d’Intérieur", which this year is celebrating its twentieth anniversary within the Maison&Objet fair in Paris. Hayón worked for eight years at La Fabrica, the research centre founded by Oliverio...

Squillace Nicholas have been duly acknowledged for their stunning work on Manly's newest, brightest venue: Manly Pavilion. Boasting a striking collection of EMU products on the expansive outdoor balconies, this restored historical location has well and truly been brought into the 21st Century with no shortage of cutting edge style and thoroughly good taste. Manly pavilion: Shortlisted for the 2010...

(Franco Forci / For The Times) This year Nanimarquina departed from boundary-pushing rugs that simulate thick fields of spring flowers or thousands of red rose petals scattered on the floor. Instead of such highly tactile shapes, the new Digit collection by emerging designer Cristian Zuzunaga took the form of flat rugs in deeply saturated hues. The color blocks, Nanimarquina...

(Franco Forci / For The Times) Rarely has sheet metal possessed so much levity. Working for the Italian company Emu, the Israeli-born, Paris-based designer Arik Levy created outdoor chairs called Pattern, whose visual lightness belied their heft. The honeycomb cuts in the metal heightened the airy effect, as did the color palette, which included cotton candy blue, deep teal...

Nominees for the INTERIOR DESIGN AWARDS | 2010 have recently been announced and across most catagories KE-ZU and their suppliers are represented abundantly with lighting, furniture and accessories having been specified throughout many of the shortlisted projects. The Australian Interior Design Awards is a partnership event of the Design Institute of Australia, designEX and ARTICHOKE magazine.