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Prominent French architect Jean Nouvel (pictured above) was awarded the highly-acclaimed Prtizker Prize for Architecture in 2008, the jury citing in their rationale: His inquisitive and agile mind propels him to take risks in each of his projects, which, regardless of varying degrees of success, have greatly expanded the vocabulary of contemporary architecture. Nouvel is the man who brought us...

Covering a song most famously performed by The Beatles, and written by none other than the lyrical gods Lennon and McCartney is not an easy feat.   Presumably it takes courage and a high-sense of ones talent to ever dare enter a world requiring such skill and care. Doubtless, some have failed in their quest. In our opinion however this little...

We love our furniture.  Pretty obviously, we live and breathe it here at KE-ZU. The distinction between tables available on the current market can be astonishing.  Responding to designs changing needs in materiality, sustainability, size and adaptability lends itself to creating a diverse range of table components. Designers the world over are working with different methods, utilising different materials in exciting...

The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo. Today’s Furniture Free Friday crawls into the realm of technology, CGI  and one man who humanises film using two such methods. We bring to you Third and the Seventh.  A company consisting of its sole Spanish designer, who goes by the professional alias of Alex Roman.   Roman is a professionally...

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...

Following our accidental “Salvador Dali Week” a fortnight ago, we thought we may note to our French friends, and travellers that last month saw the launch of a major exhibition on the great surrealist artist, Salvador Dali, at the Georges Pompidou Centre in Paris. This exhibition, devoted to the world of the Spanish surrealist - a prolific painter, sculptor, writer...

Getting to know your colleagues is always important.  Often we spend more time with our colleagues than our partners, friends or family. Sometimes these employment connections are born from visiting the same café during a break, having mutual friends or living in the same area.  Other times, it’s about extra-curricular collections, and this is the premise of this anecdotal Furniture...

KE-ZU was fortunate enough to be invited to the launch of quite the two-pronged attack on Sydney’s style scene. ­The fork comprises the launch of a colourful, conceptual photographic exhibition by quirky fashion and portrait photographer Helen White, taking place the Gaffa Gallery on Clarence Street, Sydney CBD. The photographic exhibition is a premise to the release of the bi-annual...

Salvador Dali. Pause.  Salvador Dali.  Pause.  Repeat. This is not how this blog post was intended to start.  But with so much to say about one interesting man, the mind races and sometimes all that lingers is a pause. So without further delay, here’s today’s Furniture Free Friday.  The subject matter derived from Wednesday's post about long-time KE-ZU supplier Spanish...

The spirited furniture manufacturer bd Barcelona was founded in 1972 as “bd Ediciones de Diseño”, a collaboration of a talented group of architects, designers and art talents.  Since then bd Barcelona has had a few name changes but the mantra remains the same, merging art and design. The 1970’s were a progressive time of art, design and art theory and...