June 2010

For the want of a nail the shoe was lost... ..and so the rhyme goes, a ramshackle chain of events that ultimately see a battle lost and a kingdom conquered. Ok.... ok, so humour us for a moment: dismissing the tenuous shoe analogy and the context being that of a horse shoe, we can all concede (rather clumsily) that...

Sancal have come leaps and bounds in the past 40 years from a humble 3 person family affair to one of the leading contemporary furniture design and manufacturers, exporting from Spain to the world. The third instalment of their newsletter: "NOW" is out and well worth a look.  A good read, really. Download it here or flip through it online.

As the beep-beep of the truck backing towards the showroom grows louder, the KE-ZU team invariably leap to their feet and make a bee line for the loading dock. Sample arrival days are a bit like Christmas around these parts  -  With new designs and concepts being announced at Milan and Valencia Furniture Fairs in April and September respectively...

We've had dancing, renovating, cooking, singing, sewing, exercising and now: designing in Design for Life. In the eternal quest by television production houses to roll out newer, more appealing reality content, the wheel has finally spun around to the intriguing world of product design...  and not before time! The inescapable Philippe Starck fronts this BBC production that see’s 12 hopefuls...