Launch: New designs in Pebble Collection

This month, we are pleased to launch new pieces in the Pebble Seating Collection – as favoured by Virgin Active Health Clubs, Australia. Inspired by worn river stones, Pebble’s many shapes cluster together, forming flexible, changeable group settings for your interior ‘landscape’. The playful shapes of Pebble offer you creative freedom within breakout spaces, meeting areas, libraries, schools, foyers and hotels. New pieces: longer seating modules (2 seater & 3 seater …

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Native Collection now certified FSC sustainable

Award winning designer furniture makers Schamburg + Alvisse are re-writing a few little rules, showing it’s possible for a small Australian business to create 100% Australian design built on guaranteed sustainability ethics, and community. In 2008, Schamburg+Alvisse became Australia’s first furniture supplier to achieve Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification. Now, the Native Collection of solid timber furniture is also FSC certified – being made from 100% sustainably harvested wood. FSC is arguably the …

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Award Winning Products: Schamburg+Alvisse

Pebble Ottoman wins S+A another Design Mark. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Tell a friend Print for later

S+A partner brands in World’s top logos, 2010

Two Schamburg + Alvisse partners, NATIVE and Food Wine &Design, have been honored in one of the world’s most prestigious book compilations of international logo designs : Los Logos 5 The logos for NATIVE and Food Wine &Design have assisted the brand building and recognition of the new companies in their first 12mths. The logos were both concepted by one8one7 (graphic design). German publishers, Gestalten scour the international design scene each year for the best logos, offering …

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Food Wine &Design raise $50,000 for children

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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Schamburg+Alvisse Furniture: Rethinking Plastic

Prue Rushton from Inside Out looks at how… in the hands of skilled designers and builders, ordinary and everyday materials in our lives can be elevated to pieces of pragmatic and poetic beauty. Among them are Schamburg + Alvisse. “Being able to make something that’s holistically beautiful is one of my great loves.” Marc Schamburg The turning point came around seven years ago when an American retail chain made an …

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Secrets & Stories by Michael Alvisse

Object Spring Series 2010 : Artist in Residence. Architect and designer Michael Alvisse is committed to working with people outside the field of design. He is passionate about the way design can build strong communities. In September 2010, Michael presented the results of a 10 week creative collaboration with students from Dulwich Hill High School of Visual Arts and Design (Sydney) and the Green School (Bali). The results are presented …

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Schamburg+Alvisse launch the Native Collection

S+A Furniture launch the Native Collection of solid timber furniture designed by Dhiren Bhagwandas

Schamburg+Alvisse: Greening Your Business

Judy Friedlander from DQ magazine talks to Marc Schamburg about what brings a business into green ; looking at a company who has successfully tackled the challenge. Green is the new black according to Marc Schamburg of Schamburg + Alvisse, a shining example of an Australian company that has struck a commercial advantage by adopting sustainable practices into its furniture and product development. According to Schamburg, sustainability is increasingly mainstream, …

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Poster Art & invitation design by:

The Australian Design Museum Exhibition

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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