KE-ZU Blog

Well while we're at it, here's designers Yonoh Studio on film at Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2013 explaining the inspiration for their latest creation, the Sumo sofa and armchair for Sancal, forming part of Sancal's Tierra collection. Find the KE-ZU Blog Milano post on the Sumo sofa and armchair, and the greater Tierra collection here. Shoo away those colleagues, this...

We brought you the new Vondom products launched at Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2013 recently, and now, here is a great video by Archiproducts showing the oh-so-cool Vondom party in Milan, together with interviews from two of the collections designers, Ora Ito, Fabio Novembre. Note, if you're as fortunate as we are and have bilingual members on staff, bring them...

The story of Sixto Rodgriguez is a fascinating one.  If anyone has seen the Academy award winning film “Searching or Sugarman”, the documentary outlining his life and delayed rise to fame will know this. For those who don’t, Sixto Rodriguez was a drifter, a construction worker from Detroit whose lyrical content and entrancing voice was discovered in the 1960’s.   Signed...

Not quite furniture, so we (and Furniture Free Friday is safe, for another week at least).  Pattern designed by Karim Rashid?  Yes please! Rashid, one of our favourite (and the worlds) designers, together with Sancal has brought to us a series of patterns named Cairo, inspired in Egypt - Karim's native land.  With a strong contemporary approach, the patterns unite...

Furniture Free Friday goes a bit clothes free this week.  What?!  Why not. Imagine waking up in the morning, have a little breakfast, get dressed to go to work make your way to work, follow the same routine, all in the norm.  Until boom!  German artist Milo Moiré’s latest curated performance "The Script System" happens upon you. Moiré recently sent...

We've brought to you Sancal's latest products launched at Salone del Mobile Milano 2013.  One of the most exciting products coming from their Tierra collection is Elephant.  The colourful and whimsical ottoman/stool - the perfect accompaniment to the home sofa or public space. Here, capturing the fun essence and versatility of Elephant in video form, Nadadora introduces her new piece...

Indecasa unveiled the new collection designed by Jordi Ribaudí Studio, the multi-disciplinary creative team hailing from Spain.  Including chairs, low-wide chairs, tables, coffee tables and stools, the collection is an exercise if optical illusions, weaving and solid construction practice.   Fusing functionality with high-end aesthetics, Espiga is a geometric beauty which no doubt will find itself comfortable in any setting. The...

Never before have we seen Google put in so much effort to their home page logo design.  We all know that they are tireless in working on new concepts and ideas, but today takes the cake. Celebrating the career of the late American graphic designer and filmmaker Saul Bass, Google gives the artisan a worthy nod, coinciding with what...

Sellex’s aim to produce and distribute well designed products for the home market at prices which a wide segment of consumers could afford turned the company into a Spanish powerhouse of production in close collaboration with a bevy of some of Spain’s most acclaimed designers. Sellex products are now sold in 30 different countries around the world, predominately for...

Artifort have put their thinking caps on this year.   Adding to their collection of exclusive licences in re-releasing design classics by Geoffrey D. Harcourt and Pierre Paulin, Artifort have introduced a junior range of smaller sized furniture aimed at the design-conscious little ones and managed to squeeze in enough time to work with Missoni to create a set of printed...