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Green Square, a complex intersection in Alexandria, a neighbourhood packed with design practices, furniture showrooms, Australia’s #1 business park, a heap of creative go-getters, and the home of KE-ZU looks set to become home to a bustling epicentre of culture for the ever growing area just south of central Sydney – said to be Australia’s largest urban development at this...

We should start this Furniture Free Friday with a definition: Chromatophobia An abnormal aversion to colours or to certain colours. We found out about this phobia from a wonderful anecdotal article by Michael Bierut. For most people, colour is basic element of our daily lives that we use for comfort, inspiration, practicality, etc.  Doing a prancy 360 in the KE-ZU...

For Furniture Free Friday we thought we’d bring you a young Sydney creative – she’s talented in too many areas to name, you know the ones...  those people who seem to have boundless amounts of imaginative energy capable of turning water into wine. Sydney’s Melinda “Mindy” Nass has embarked herself on a personal creative challenge which spans the entire year...

With the world evolving and we increasingly understand how we tick, particularly at work, there are some forward thinking people out there which are creating workspaces which address so many of the issues which have been plaguing 9-5’ers for so long. The front runner has always been Google, and not to say that there aren’t contenders. Google Tel Aviv have...

Holy guacamole! Well technology got us today and it became apparent that our avo video from FFF 1 isn't available on smart phones - so for those savvy people on the go we'd like to give you a totally unrelated video and celebrate big Arnie's film career with 160 of the most memorable monotone quotes the film world has ever...

We love a bit of innovation and forward-thinking here at KE-ZU, and this isn’t just limited to the furniture world… Check out the video below.  It may not be the best quality – but it’s a non-stop 1 minute 37 seconds of rich information about how to successfully peel an avocado in an aesthetically pleasing, clean, easy and really pretty...

Recently the world said goodbye to a great – Oscar Niemeyer – Brazilian architect who can be credited with much more than just assisting in the birth of modernist architecture. Oscar recently passed just shy of his 104th birthday leaving behind him a repertoire of internationally highly regarded work spanning 78 years including the architecture of the planned city Brasilia...

We never tire of our suppliers’ international success. We are proud to bring to you the recipient of the 2013 Wallpaper* Design Awards - Best Domestic Design Rug Collection Award - Nanimarquina for the “Collage 1966” collection! Judged by a plethora of international creatives such as Rick Owens, Wang Shu, Julian Opie, Oki Sato, Ferran Adria and Farida Khelfa, the...

We’ve previously featured caravans on this blog, that one came in the form of an amazing food truck doing the rounds of San Francisco. Without fear of becoming known as a blog of the travelling wheels, today we’d like to bring to you a truly unique hotel which has found itself in Berlin, arguably the worlds capital of what’s-cool-right-now. By...

We are absolutely loving Craig and Karl. “Who are Craig and Karl?” you may say. Well, Craig and Karl (their self-portraits above and below) are friends who live in different parts of the world, Craig in New York City and Karl in London. They are illustrators specialising in installation who collaborate daily on work creating bold and fun graphic work...