Food Wine &Design raise $50,000 for children

November 25, 2010

Thank You to the 200 guests who attended Food Wine &Design’s 2010 Melbourne Cup Celebration at Doltone House, Sydney. The afternoon was full of conviviality, collaboration, and contribution. Food Wine &Design are proud to announce the combined fundraising  for the Children’s Hospital at Westmead has already generated more than $50,000…. You can still contribute a pledge today by emailing Rebecca Perry: rperry@response-group.com.au  -or- phone Food Wine &Design (02) 8217 4700. Marc Schamburg is …

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Crafty people making the world a better place

October 24, 2010

KNITTY GRITTY & LOOPY is a core group of ‘Gritters’ who meet up regularly to share knitting/weaving skills, working on different art projects as they pop up. Projects include the Knitta Please Project at The National Gallery of Canberra, where the facade of the building was covered in knitting. Liane Rossler (of Dinosaur Designs) introduces  the group as: “People doing public art & craft projects, knitting & crocheting, weaving & …

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Schamburg+Alvisse want to play with you…

September 1, 2010

Object Spring Series : Open Studios We invite you to *Stop Playing with Yourself…. Come play with us in the S+A showroom. SPWY* is a star shaped concept puzzle with 6 pieces – a human scaled version of a small children’s puzzle. Concepted as a team building device, SPWY cannot be solved alone as you must have three people to hold the pieces during assembly. Through playing together as adults, …

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Object Spring Series

September 1, 2010

Object has charmed some of Sydney’s coolest arts and design studios into opening their doors to the public for the day. You are invited to come and discover the environments in which creative ideas manifest. Meet the designer/makers, explore their work spaces, and hear how and why they do what they do. You might even be given the opportunity to get your hands dirty. Find out more about the Object …

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The Australian Design Museum Exhibition

March 7, 2010

Have you gone to a exhibition and wanted to touch, hold, feel or sit on the items displayed? Curator Sarah King put on a show where you can touch and sit as well as purchase some of Australia’s “iconic, limited and prototype” 20th and 21st Century design works. The Australian Design Museum Exhibition was recently held at Shapiro Gallery, Sydney. The exhibition itself is a prototype of a program promoting diverse, …

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Indesign Luminary Award

September 15, 2009

At the beginning of September 2009, Indesign Magazine celebrated the contribution of Schamburg+Alvisse to Australian design: “Featured in publications such as ID and Wallpaper magazines, French Vogue and Elle Décor in Japan, Italy and Germany and included in Taschen’s Designing the 21st Century and The Bulletin’s ‘Smart 100: Australia’s Brightest and Best’, Schamburg+Alvisse are attracting increasing attention for their strikingly simple, ecologically-sustainable furniture. In 1997, when the Sydney-based furniture design …

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photo taken from the Vivid Sydney website: http://vividsydney.com

Vivid Sydney Festival – S+A listed in Top 100 Creatives

May 21, 2009

Schamburg + Alvisse have been listed as part of the Top 100 Creative Catalysts for the inaugural Vivid Sydney Festival for “offering a vision of sophisticated sustainability” (Vivid Sydney Media Release, dated May 21 2009). Vivid Sydney is a unique new public festival which brings together large scale light installations and projections, music performances, creative ideas and stimulating discussions and debates. It showcases Sydney as a major creative hub in …

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