KE-ZU Blog

KE-ZU congratulates the incomparable Hare + Klein for their outstanding success at the 2010 Interior Design Awards. Taking out the award for Best Residential Decoration as well as the award for Best Colour in Residential Design not to mention three commendations across three categories! Unprecedented success for a very talented team (...oh and we love the use of the...

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...

A hearty congratulations are in order for the dynamic duo that is Luchetti Krelle on receiving the 2010 Emerging Interior Design Practice Award at Friday evenings Interior Design Awards held at Sydney's Town Hall. The Australian Interior Design Awards is a partnership event of the Design Institute of Australia, designEX and ARTICHOKE magazine.

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...

Salvador Dali and Antoni Gaudi are names synonymous with art, design and the unapologetic pushing of conventional artistic boundaries. Each of them champions of their own surrealist, non-conformist styles, the two men, though prolific almost a century apart are responsible for some of the modern world’s most iconic artworks, architecture and design. It is with great pride then that KE-ZU...

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.

Christophe Pillet and Emu have released the hugely popular Round Collection from the Emu Advanced range in a brand new black option. The sleek new black finish is also available on Jean Marie Massaud's Heaven Collection, also for Emu, Italy.  A must see!

Get ready for the World Cup and end of day competitions and games at the KE-ZU showroom. We have on order more of the RS # 2 commercial-quality All-Weather Football Tables, designed for high-traffic contract use indoors and out. Designed by Rafael Rodriguez of Spain for RS-Barcelona, Rs # 2 can have players painted up in your favourite team colours...