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Viva España!! Many of our suppliers are based in Spain and we love everything Spanish including this gem we found in the YouTube archives (if they actually exist?!). Given the varied age group of many of our readers, only some will remember this one but it’s certainly high on the KE-ZU rotation. Black is Black, by then Madrid based Los...

A big thank you to all who entered the #KEZUMID14 Instagram competition during Melbourne In Design. After much deliberation we are pleased to announce the chosen entry. Congratulations @adrianahanna. We loved your shot of Oscar Tusquets Fontal Chair. Please contact KE-ZU on (02) 9669 1788 to claim your Jaime Hayon Gardenias Vase! #kezumid14 winning entry. Image Courtesy of @adrianahanna

Melbourne Indesign 2014 (see our campaign from August 2013 here) is all about collaboration and designer stories.  Matched by our mutual love of wood, we’ve partnered with Tongue n Groove in Melbourne’s Richmond and it’s easy to see why: not only are they a great bunch of people, they’re also industry leaders in timber flooring.  The incredible Tongue n Groove showroom...

Have you ever felt like the odds were stacked against you?   We reckon Brushy One-String has. His little mate is a guitar with just one string! Luciano Blotta, a Jamaican filmmaker discovered our newest friend Brushy while filming his documentary Rise Up. Born Andrew Chin, Brushy is the product of a musical family who possesses the enviable ability to inspire...

Taimane Gardner on stage at the NYC Yukule Festival. Photo courtesy of leesean Monday Music Madness returns with Taimane Gardner, and one hell of a ukulele performance. Hailing from Hawaii, Taimane began playing the ukulele at aged five and was discovered by legendary crooner Don Ho whilst performing on the streets of Waikiki Beach. She became a featured performer...

  The Shanty Credenza designed by Doshi Levien is the newest addition to KE-ZU supplier BD Barcelona's collection of cabinets. A typology of furniture which was lost toward the of of the last century and which BD, in the last few years have wanted to regain with the same purposeful functionality of a container, but with different character. BD have produced distinct cabinets suitable...

The East London designers of Doshi Levien: Nipa Doshi and Jonathan Levien KE-ZU has recently welcomed two new designs from the UK based duo Doshi Levien with Shanty for bd Barcelona and Rabari for Nanimarquina. Both of these products bear the Doshi Levien stamp,a visual appreciation of the talented design duo. Appreciating Doshi Levien’s work can best be done...

It’s exhausting to even fathom how much work Spanish furniture manufacturer Andreu World put into their catalogue of incredible furniture. They hold an extraordinary ability to understand the international design market and the product that it both needs and wants. Within this framework, they produce said product to not only their own high standards, but the rigid international sustainability credentials...

Habitus Living, the Australian platform which regularly delivers design news from the Asia Pacific region travelled a little further recently and set their inspired cross-hair on Yonoh Studio, the multidisciplinary creative studio comprised of Clara del Portillo and Alex Selma. Not only acknowledging their good looks, Habitus have taken a look at their favourite designs from Yonoh Studio ,which include...

Watch, listen and take notes. John Cleese imparts his knowledge, providing the "5 factors that you can arrange to make your lives more creative." 1.  Space – "You have to create some space for yourself away from your everyday demands." 2. Time – "It’s not enough to create space.  You have to create your space for yourself for a specific...