Tag: Vondom

Estudi{h}ac takes over a new Aesop …

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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by O on April 18, 2013
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12 months on…

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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by O on April 9, 2013
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Karim’s Miami Vision …

It’s pretty obvious that we love Karim Rashid.  We stock many of his designs right here at KE-ZU.  Dubbed by Time Magazine as the “most famous industrial designer in all the Americas”, Karim Rashid is a multi-faceted creative superforce with over 3,000 works in production to date, it’s pretty hard then to fathom that he has any time to think let alone have a hobby, which by the way he does, and it’s getting behind the DJ decks and spinning some tunes.

­The latest venture for the purveyor of pink is MyBrickell.  A built space investigating contemporary culture and city living in the popular urban sprawl of Brickell, Miami.

Designed for the new age and culturally aware Miami resident, the buildings color, design, location, features and amenities add to up to one of the hottest places to live in South Florida. Some unique features of this highly original structure include a fantastic rooftop pool and outdoor living area, expansive balconies and a colour scheme that screams Miami.

Currently a mere hole in the ground, the MyBrickell vision is strong, utilising the highly saturated colour in deep pattern and organic shape so synonymous with Karim’s work MyBrickell is shrouded in his stamp, a further way for Karim to continue on his mission to beautify the world.

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by O on March 28, 2013
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INSTALLED: Hotel Pau has some POW …

Teresa Sapey isn’t at all unfamiliar with the design of a hotel.  She’s designed the interiors for Veracruz Plaza in Valdepanas, Spain and managed to turn a carpark into a colourful and graphic delight in Madrid when collaboratively working on the Hotel Puerta América Project (see the KE-ZU blog post here).

Turning her hand to Barcelona’s Hotel Pau, the interiors are a juxtaposition from the facade, maintaining its protected colonial aesthetic and construct.  The renowned designer and architect has once again utilised large digital prints to personalise the spaces and has specified organic rounded cut out shapes to offset from the geometric pops of colour of the striped flooring and walls.

Sapey strategically placed the Adan stools and Chemistubes vases designed by herself for Spanish manufacturer Vondom – available for viewing in the KE-ZU showroom (see the KE-ZU blog post here to give the hotel has a new lease on life delivered from the talented Spaniard.

See a video of the newly designed Hotel below.

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by O on March 26, 2013
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Keeping up with the Bones’ …

New to the Vondom catalogue and recently arriving in our showroom is the Bones collection of planters.

Designed by Ludovica+Roberto Palomba for the Spanish manufacturer, Bones is characterised by its relative slimness and light weight comparable to its ability of strength.  Capable of reversibility to use either end to support any plant or tree, Bones is available in three shapes of various sizes, all embodying a silhouette of different types of bones.

As is with the wider range of Vondom planters, this family of polyethylene resin planters may illuminate to provide an interesting flair to any outdoor social occasion.  Last week KE-ZU supplied the 2013 Tropfest Film Festival interview set with a selection of Bones – showcasing the planters to a live audience of over 150,000 people and televised in 33 countries!  See the image below.

Bones in all available shapes are available for viewing on the KE-ZU showroom floor.

Also new to the Vondom catalogue is the Adan collection pictured below, with black samples available for viewing at the KE-ZU showroom.  We’ve previously featured Adan on the blog here.

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by O on February 20, 2013
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Sapey So Good…

Teresa Sapey, the talented Italian architect, interior and industrial designer has our attentions today, and not only because of the abundance of interesting and quirky photographs of herself, or her enviable design mantra:

It is to move emotions that I work with spaces, I’d go for provoking just about any kind of feeling, no matter what it is (…whether like or dislike, I do not really care).  From my personal point of view, architecture should provide a varied range of sentiments to be considered both inspiring and useful

Sapey is quite the fascinating character.  The Italian born talent was educated in various parts of the world including the prestigious Parsons School of Design.  Sapey’s career is a cocktail of interesting, smart and invariably aesthetically pleasing work.

The multi-faceted creative appears to attain Midas-touch like abilities to every project she sets sinks her teeth into.  Working in the fields of architecture, interior design, installations and furniture design, all of her work bears the aesthetic Sapey stamp of playing with highly saturated colour and pattern – in turn making spaces vibrant and a whole lot of fun.

Her workings with plastics, including her teachings of Plastic Investigations internationally have laid an easy path to many collaborations on projects with Spanish manufacturer Vondom including recently launched Adan, outdoor vase, light and table and Chrismy, the illuminated Christmas tree in various sizes, together with previously Chemistubes, outdoor vase and light – all of which are available at KE-ZU.

Recently, Sapey was invited to be one of 18 architects (including current greats such as John Pawson, Zaha Hadid and Jean Nouvel) working collaboratively on the Hotel Puerta América Project, a hotel in Madrid, each part of the hotel being designed by a different architect, Sapey designing the carparking – the outcome far more interesting than it may initially sound.

Sapey’s foray into the design world is evident of a truly talented artist.  But don’t just believe us, the magnificent 57 page online portfolio is testament to such a visionary – you can find it here. Her catalogue available at KE-ZU is available here.

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by O on January 7, 2013
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KE-ZU’s Garden of Eden

Vondom is highly regarded for their work in outdoor furniture and lighting, specialising in rotational moulding. Taking solid forms and shearing them into bold, angular and geometric styles is the trademark of the Spanish company.

Designed by Italian born and Spanish based and designer Teresa Sapey and causing quite a fuss in outdoor trend, Vondom has released their latest venture, Adan and Eva.

Designed from the imagined faces of the biblical Adam and Eve, these versatile pieces are finding themselves in some very trendy outdoor spaces.  Highly adaptable as planters, lights, stools and tables, Adan and Eva are large scaled pieces which fit in perfectly as a new sibling in the Vondom family.

Instantly recognizable as either the male or female counterparts, Adan and Eva have many differences in their structure.  Adan, strikingly handsome appears lean, strong and muscular whilst Eva falls into the softer category, a softer, suppler specimen.  Vondom says of the pieces:

Adan, as a diamond with cutting, while Eva is smooth, sweet and delicate, of curves lines.  Both of them are the result of the balance between the past and the future.

Adan & Eva follows Chemistubes, the incredible first collaboration between Sapey and Vondom – another investigation into scale and light.  Chemistubes are a vase and light, also available lacquered in various colours.

Adan & Eva are available from KE-ZU and its national distributors.  Stock available pre-Christmas.

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by O on October 3, 2012
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Party Time with Vondom …

KE-ZU stockist Vondom offers new style in sensory experience of shape, texture and form through materiality.

Each year Vondom showcases their innovative range at Feria Habitat Valencia in Spain and celebrates by throwing arguably Valencia Design Fair’s most exclusive, invitation only party (of which our fearless Director attended last year).

Again Vondom took to Torres de Serranos, one of twelve gothic style medieval gates along the city wall in Valencia.  The perfect juxtaposed backdrop for the colour and form of Vondom’s pieces.

Stay tuned for other news from the Feria Hábitat Valencia and see our Facebook page for further photos from the Vondom party.

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by O on September 21, 2012
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MILANO:2012 | Vondom…

VONDOM of Spain have returned to some of their most successful collaborators in producing their 2012 Catalogue.  Building on the immense success of previous years collections these eminent designers have contributed additional pieces to existing families of furniture, lighting and planters as well as developing entirely brand new collections.

The likes of Javier Mariscal, Teresa Sapey, Ramon Esteve, Stefano Giavannoni and A-Cero have all returned to create unique and groundbreaking polymer molded designs for the luxury hospitality and residential markets.

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by O on April 17, 2012
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INSTALLED: New Brighton Hotel, Manly

The four storey New Brighton Hotel in Manly has undergone a significant overhaul with a bold contemporary edge that belies its heritage exterior.

The brief called for an edgy feel that complemented the seaside location but was up to the task of managing high traffic and at times the harsh costal elements.

KE-ZU provided a selection of indoor/outdoor appropriate pieces from Italy and Spain.

Smart, dual purpose furniture was the order of the day with Paola Navone’s Ivy collection for EMU represented in the Ivy Sofa and Ivy solar powered illuminating side-table.  The Moma Low tables from Javier Mariscal and Vondom also house LED internal illumination and integrated ice bucket for wine and refreshments.

Good, practical, durable fun.

Anthony Habashy Photography

Altis Architects

@ Qubed Design

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by O on February 23, 2012
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