The engaging and talented José Manuel Ferrero of Estudi{H}ac turned his hand to designing a chair based on the Castanet – the result, Casta, a friendly and welcoming family of chairs for Spanish manufacturer Sancal available in a variety of deep, bold hues.
Enjoy Sancal’s video from the collection launch at Salone Internazionale del Mobile with Ferrero explaining the collection.
Share on FacebookWell 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 one has subtitles.
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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 tradition and personal memories, adding bright colours to pictures of organic geometry – all with a contemporary approach. Forming into cushions and headrests perfect as accessories to the Sancal sofa collection Float, and holding their own in any setting, these guys are a sure fire hit!
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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…
Nadadora Elephant for Sancal from nadadora on Vimeo.
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One of the most exciting companies doing the rounds these days is the Melbourne born Aesop range of skin care and accessories. Utilising natural and organic products and spinning them into delicious (albeit inedible) products destined to make you feel better about being you.
Their international sales now outweigh their domestic sales, and their name has become synonymous with good design, not only because of their recognizably restrained apothecary style branding, but the variation contained within their 43 international retail stores.
We recently discovered that in a few weeks, Spain’s estudi{h}ac (designers of Sancal’s Tea Collection and Vases for Vondom – both of which available at KE-ZU) will be revealing their design for the latest Aesop store – see teaser picture below and stay tuned to the Blog once more information and images are to hand.
In the meantime, the built Aesop stores consistently use understated natural materials in exciting ways, and here are a few of our favourite stores:
Aesop Adelaide
Aesop Paris
Flinders Lane, Aesop Melbourne
Aesop London
Aesop New York City
Strand Arcade, Aesop Sydney
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With the worlds largest and most coveted furniture fair kicking off in the magical Milano today (and if you’re lucky to be visiting the famed fair, don’t forget to grab a copy of our Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2013 guide here) we thought we’d take a little journey down memory lane and spend some time looking at a small portion of the products which arose from last years fair which now feel like a comfortable old pair of jeans, while their parents (our suppliers) prep their latest offspring for their time in the Italian sun.
ENEA’s Lottus program by Lievore, Altherr & Molina launched with a new series offering upholstery, timber, polyprop and metal finishes to expand into what is now a staple family of chairs being specified the world over.
ANDREU WORLD showcased the newest additions to their Red Dot Award winning collection Sail by Piergiorgio Cazzaniga offering the elegant and subtle formed chair in wood and leather, and the show-stopping Nub series by Patricia Urquiola, the colourful and shapely series which simultaneously gives a nod to the past and hurls itself into the future.
Well, didn’t SANCAL and Karim Rashid kick some goals with the Float collection. The hugely popular colourful and fun, high and low back options destined for public spaces with interchangeable coat racks, upholstery and seat options was an international hit. Forming part of the larger Flash! Collection is Party and Copla, both taking a new approach to colour and scale to round out the Sancal 2012 repertoire.
VONDOM, Vondom, Vondom. What a year. Releasing Teresa Sapey’s Adan collection of illuminated pots, planters, and tables, the lush Faz daybed by Ramon Esteve, Moma collection of outdoor furniture by Spain’s Javier Mariscal and the optical-illusionary Pillow series.
Dutch company ARTIFORT presented am engaging mix of contemporary, brand-new pieces alongside some re-released classics by the likes of Geoffrey Harcourt and Pierre Paulin. Apps Collection from Richard Hutten dabbled with two-tone complimentary upholstery and re-relasing Harcourt’s F587, a button stud upholstered variant and Paulin’s Concord Lounge.
All of the above product is available at KE-ZU and through its national distribution network.
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Here at the ‘ZU we have a bit of a fascination for Spain. We aren’t alone – the world has an ever expanding love affair with the skilled European State, and with good reason. A land bearing some of the worlds most successful and well-known creatives in history is worthy of a humble mention here on the KE-ZU Blog.
The undeniable talent across every sector which has emerged from Spain is unstoppable and almost unfathomable. Think perhaps the genius brushstrokes of Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso, fashion giant Balenciaga, every girls’ footwear fantasy Manolo Blahnik, the “L’enfant terrible” fashionista Paco Rabbane, marketing genius and comfort guru Camper, a huge spectrum of architectural brilliance delivered by Antoni Gaudi and Santiago Calatrava, multi-talented designer Javier Mariscal and culinary brain Ferran Adrià – what a list, and that’s just the start!
Spain has captured our hearts, and for more than just these monumental reasons – the work of the wider Spanish community in the cultural arts arena is nothing short of beautiful and while we’re on that, check out the astoundingly picturesque layout of the website Love Spain.
Love Spain is dedicated to creativity in Spanish design, architecture, art, fashion and food and the rolling image bank is a non-stop repertoire of all things creative hailing from the European land we adore.
All KE-ZU’s Spanish suppliers are featured on the site; nanimarquina in her award winning range of rugs immortalising the Spanish artist Edward Chillida (and the greater nanimarquina collection), Vondom’s progressive outdoor pieces, bd Barcelona’s Dali works and a selection of Sancal’s products!
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Some may say our Nation’s Capital has little drawcards. The new East Hotel, nestled in the grooviest quarter of Canberra stylishly refutes such a claim.
Turning away from the dreary neutral tones of hotels of times past, the East Hotel drowns itself in contemporary styling, artfully pieced by Sydney’s Sally Hieatt (Sally Hieatt Interiors).
The East Hotel is a dense fusion of shape and colour, the lobby being the perfect platform to showcase product from Spain’s design gurus Sancal. Littering the floor is the Folk Sofa, Tea Lounge, Soul Lounge Chair and Rock Tables and Axona Aichi’s Tipo Chairs in the meeting room.
With such good design available, perhaps now there’s no better reason to head to the Capital.
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 ways, and their designs are born from different concepts.
Pretty simply, this means at KE-ZU we have a large range of tables to suit any sort of project or space. Exciting!
Above you’ll find a collection of only some of the tables which are currently available for viewing at the KE-ZU showroom. A generous mix from indoor and outdoor occasional and dining comprising materiality variety of extruded aluminium, woven steel, plastic, Chestnut wood, lacquer MDF and so much more.
Andreu World Reverse Table, Sancal’s Rock tables, Bernahrdt Design Cuiro & Revue , Sancal Tab, Bd Barcelona Table B , EMU Heaven, Bernahrdt Design B.5, Andreu World Pure & Dual, Sancal Nudo, Eden Tablecloth.
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We are never surprised by our friends at SANCAL. Ever. Known for their forward-thinking, the SANCAL motto is clear:
Our premise is to design products which go forward with us, which convey value and allow us to create singular, yet defining spaces.
… and define spaces they do. The quirky SANCAL catalogue stretches far and wide, all pieces bearing the hallmark of the Spaniard’s cutting edge method: adopt unique geometry, mix with a fun palette of colour and away they go.
One of the latest SANCAL additions into their already diverse repertoire is Juan Ibáñez’s NUDO family of tables. With the inclusion of natural oak, stained oak and marble into the material box, the NUDO Tables add a mischievous natural flair. Just look at those legs….
The visual mastery of the a-symmetrical balance is generated by the various heights of the two cross beams which structure the dining table, and the three legs of the smaller tables, forming a playground for the eye. Optionally presenting itself in the paired back state of unstained oak, you’d be forgiven for assuming the name ‘Nudo’ had different connotations to its actual reference, the knots of wood found in its natural state. Colour hasn’t been forgotten here though, with NUDO being offered in red and yellow and dusty pink.
Available in three sizes, the smaller having the ability to be utilised as a stool, we can’t find a reason not to love the naughty little tables.
NUDO is available from KE-ZU and its distributors nationally.
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