Kenneth Cobonpue

Increasingly, some of our favourite entertainers are making a bold leap and branching into the world of design, lifestyle and luxury goods.  Where fashion, perfumes and homewares have long been the stomping ground of celebrities wanting to "spread their creative wings" (and collect sizeable pay-checks along the way), the realm of architecture, interiors and industrial design has largely been untouched...

The eighth annual Esquire House was unveiled at the end of 2010 in Los Angeles'  Hollywood Hills. The Esquire House continues its tradition of re-invention, and bringing the Esquire tagline, "Man at His Best," vibrantly to life. The charity driven concept sees each room/space sponsored by a well known brand such as Hugo Boss, Absolut, Heineken and Ferragamo and in...

Black is most definitely back!  You asked for it and you got it, the perennial favourite: CU-C-ME from HIVE is now available for the first time in black! We got so excited we wanted to showcase some of the other sleek black editions now also offered from our suppliers: bd Ediciones, VONDOM, EMU and Artifort.

Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan pretty much takes the crown where design and furniture trade fairs are concerned.  Whether it's your favourite or the most groundbreaking is of course open to much discussion, however, it is undeniably one of the biggest events on the annual design calendar in so far as global pull and breadth of output. That said...

True to their name, the gang over at HIVE have been hard at work.  Not only have they been finalising a swag of new product lines and introducing a plethora of brilliant outdoor models for their existing peices, but they have even found the time to rebrand! A slick new logo and a punchy new website (with a new...

As the dust settles on another Saturday Indesign, we all hurriedly flock back to the office and flick  through our photos and thumb through notes gathered over a frenetic two day gallop around inner Melbourne. Networking, over working, over indulging... whatever your approach or game plan, it's clear from doing the rounds that the Saturday Indesign format seems to...

So you tear yourself away from Thira and the immense views over the caldera, the crater rim dotted with cascading white terraces and the ocassional blue church dome.  You hop on your scooter and you head South, to seek out one of Santorini's best kept secrets... You turn off the main road, down a rather rough, unsealed "track" that...

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...

In recent times, the name Kenneth Cobonpue has become synonymous locally with designer outdoor furniture for high end hospitality and residential environs.  As both an established brand and highly sought after designer, what is perhaps most intriguing about his meteoric rise to the forefront (of an already competitive market)  is that he has done so through bucking the trends...