Category Archives: furniture design

tealight wit!

Tealights
We all love a bit of mood lighting while entertaining with good mates, cuddling up with a good movie or a lovie dovie night in. One designer that I really love is London based Martha Freud who works with a very natural ascetic. Her designs have a very natural feel which is what I love [...]
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our new adelaide showroom is now open

Designers' Saturday
Our team down in Adelaide have been very busy building our newest showroom and we are so pleased to announce it is now open! They’ve done a cracker of a job, so head on down to 13 College Road, Kent Town to have a squizz. But the work doesn’t stop there, the team are now [...]
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new retail concepts that last

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While I was out walking my dog Darcy (or Percy to some),  I discovered the ’Pure and General’ store in Potts Point. This is the creation of Linda Gregoriou and architect Dale Jones-Evans of dje.com.au. This store brings a fresh new retail concept to the Sydney market and first began when Linda, who was a [...]
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IMM cologne 2011 is now

IMM Cologne showcases some of the brightest and most stylish interiors furnishing manufacturers from Europe and the rest of the world. Basically anyone who is anyone in the furniture manufacturing world is exhibiting there to showcase their latest designs. From steady staples like Vondom to up and coming young designers like Malafor and Studio Magnus [...]
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fresher design

Roslyn Campbell's "The Pebble Chair"
Last week we held the RMIT Tafe School of Design Awards here at the Richmond showroom in Melbourne. All the final year design students were asked to create a furniture piece using our showroom / products as inspiration. The results were mind blowing. From pebble chairs [ surprisingly comfortable] to travertine slung hammocks, the students [...]
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new summer season furniture @ eco

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This season’s furniture is in-store now. Below is the latest ad running in Inside Out showcasing the 2011 Summer Season Range at Eco. .jwsharethis a {margin: 0 10px 0 0; text-shadow: 0 0 1px #000} Share this post:
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DIY outdoor furniture . . what the?

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Another interesting tidbit borrowed from our friends at My Urban Garden Deco Guide shows off the latest innovation from the Milan Furniture Fair which was held in April of this year. Here the Belgian brand Extremis showed up with a very unexpected product. It was not a new design. It was a kit. Or more [...]
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showering au naturale

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For those of you who love to have a shower au naturale in the outdoors, this washing wonder is for you. It’s an outdoor shower that you can plug into any hose [how convenient I hear you say] that shoots water from the earth upwards. Sort of like your very own personal well. Well, almost. [...]
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a flashback to the not-so distant past

An image from the Florence Broadhurst floral collection of wallpapers
A great article by Kerrie Davies, borrowed from The Sunday Telegraph that caught the eye of Ash [Eco NSW]. To most men their home is their castle, but to 1960s architect Neville Gruzman his Darling Point house was his masterpiece. Known as the Gruzman Estate, the late architect’s (he died in 2005) family home (above) [...]
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another design ditty

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Here’s another designer we think you should take a peak at. It’s a favourite of Kristen one of our Sydney girls and well worth a look in. His name is Marteen Baas and he’s a young designer from the Netherlands. He graduated in 2002 from the Design Academy Eindhoven with two designs. His two design [...]
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