In the interview above Renzo Piano reflects on the role of architecture in a city as a public building and cultural magnet referencing his time spent working on The Pompidou in Paris and “The Shard” in London.
Share on FacebookBack It Up…
Privacy and a sense of luxury often go hand-in-hand, so it stands to reason that with the prevalence of open-plan homes, wall-free workplaces and vast hospitality venues, we instintively seek to demarcate our own domain.
Designers are heeding the call and rising to the challenge by putting some back into it – literally.
Endeavouring to create miniature retreats within our homes, hotels and workplaces: designers are affording us greater variety in lounging options through the use of high backs and wrapped or winged arms.
Each of the collections pictured here is steeped with the afore mentioned sense of luxury – the pieces take on coccoon-like characteristics that are once is comfortable, sophisticated and intimate.
INSTALLED: Oxygen Royal, Iran
Oxygen Royal is a recently opened men’s health club offering health and well-being facilities in an upmarket precinct in Tehran.
Interior designer Amir Masoud Ghane, furnished the 1300 square meter site with a number of VONDOM’s collections including Faz, Moma, Vertex and Fiesta – most of which were specified with internal LED illumination
Being able to customise the hue and intensity of the feature pieces has afforded the club-owners versatilty and for the guests: a relaxing, ever-changing landscape within the relaxation and pool areas.
See What All The Faz Is About…
Ramon Esteve’s Faz Collection for Vondom is as diverse as it is versatile.
Taking in lighting, planters, lounging, tables and modular sofas – this short film showcases the outdoor range as a sleek, contemporary study in functionality.
Share on FacebookNational Design Prize…
Spain’s National Design Prize, the most prestigious design award handed down in Spain, has gone to Sellex.
The Government Minister for Industry and Innovation says the company won
because of more than 30 years of consistent quality and constant search for excellence’.
Jury members felt Sellex has been able to combine timeless elegance with affordability and usability.
KE-ZU has enjoyed an illustrious relationship with Sellex supplying products from the likes of Lievore, Altherr & Molina, Gemma Bernal and Burkhard Vogtherr.
To date Sellex furniture has been used in The Australian Family Courts, NSW Police Stations, The Scottish Parliament, London City Hall and many more high profile projects.
Life Is A Cabaret, Old Chum…
Introducing the Cabaret Collection from Kenneth Cobonpue: coming very soon. Contemporary woven furniture for the indoors or the greates indulgence for lounging outdoors.
Click here to register your interest!
Share on FacebookNewson’s New Year: Sydney 2012
2012 is upon us and Sydney rang the new year in with a powerhouse creative display directed by Sydney born designer Marc Newson.
Click here to watch the midnight finale (the second of two displays in one evening) - mind blowing!
Famed for his works for Ford, QANTAS, Nike, Alessi and many-many more, 2011/2012 NYE in Sydney saw his experience across interiors, spacecraft, products and furniture broadened to ignite a party atmosphere for over 1 million Sydneysiders on the Harbour foreshore as well as being televised to a global audience of 1.1 billion.
As creative director for the evenings firework and entertainment display, Newson drew on the theme of ”Time To Dream”, harnessing the firepower of over $6million in pyrotechnics and a catalogue of australian music as a backing track – the results were phenomenal.
Australia was built upon dreams. From the dreamings of past millennia to the dreams of recent settlers. Whether day or night-time, dreams are our minds in free-flow, uninhibited and reflecting what we truly aspire to. From little babies to old people, we all dream. New Year’s Eve is when fantasy and aspirations flow. A vision for the coming year, with designs on a better life. The moonstruck and lovestruck may dream of fulfilment. The stargazers dream of the worlds beyond ours.
New At KE-ZU: 2011 in Review…
For more information on any of the new products we launched this year (not all of which we could include!) please don’t hesitate to contact us.
KE-ZU will be closing the doors from Friday the 23rd of December, returning on January 9th 2012.
Our online Clearance Sale is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, throughout the holiday period.
We wish you all a very safe and happy Christmas and a wonderful New Year and thank you for your continued support and interest in KE-ZU.
Share on FacebookThe Pretty Tent City…
As far as holiday options go… camping is an aquired taste.
Some love the promise of peace and quiet and willingly jump at the chance to escape into the wilderness and quite literally… switch off. For the rest of us there is Field Candy.
Field Candy, out of the UK, first caught our attention over at designboom®, so we went exploring and discovered there was much more to these high-end homes away from home than merely fancy wrapping!
Bridging kitsch to quaint to “camp”, these youth oriented tents boast built-in internal storage for mp3 players, mobiles, a breathable cotton inner-tent, assembly instructions on indestructable paper and the choice of limited edition digitally printed fly covers from emerging designers as well as some well established artists. One such indivdual is Australia’s Jonathan Zawada (long time collaborator with The Presets also having worked widely in fashion as well as for Playstation and Coca-Cola) who was commissioned to design a tent cover that is currently being sold in a limited run of 50.
Coming in at over $1030AUD they are no small investment… but for the luxury of being able to spot your tent with ease in a vast festival campground or find your safe-base amongst dense bushland folliage - it’s a small, whimsical price to pay really – we just don’t see these becoming military standard any time soon.
We’ve picked out some of our favourites here, but pop over to their website and check out the collections for yourself.
Cobonpue Presents Parchment…
Today we are pleased to announce the release of “Parchment“, the latest offering from the acclaimed, multi-award winning designer Kenneth Cobonpue.
The Parchment collection visually demonstrates fine layers of wood bearing resemblance to pages of an archaic manuscript.
Employing a natural warping process, the table’s many layers are formed of solid walnut timbers that embody a visual lightness – all resting on a contemporary brushed stainless steel base.
Available in two sizes at dining height.
