Launch: New designs in Pebble Collection

May 2, 2011

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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Award Winning Products: Schamburg+Alvisse

December 2, 2010

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

November 29, 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

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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Schamburg+Alvisse Furniture: Rethinking Plastic

September 23, 2010

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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Schamburg+Alvisse: Greening Your Business

June 1, 2010

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

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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Expendable or Valuable? State. Respond. Exhibition at Object

February 15, 2010

In our current struggle with climate change and global financial crises, will our values change? The idea that something is expendable or worthless is only a point of view. For the ethical and the aware, waste matter presents new opportunity. (Marc Schamburg) Schamburg + Alvisse are included in the State.Respond. exhibition at Object Gallery, Surry Hills. Object curated the exhibition to feature five design practices with a significant track record in …

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Marc Schamburg new Creative Director: Food Wine and Design

November 4, 2009

Marc Schamburg is honoured to be appointed creative director of Food Wine and Design. The brainchild of Rebecca Perry (of Response Group Australia), Food Wine and Design has a mission to promote emerging design, and raise funds towards charitable projects. Since 2009, Food Wine and Design has raised serious funding from the design and building industry towards community projects  benefiting ill, disabled and disadvantaged children. Food Wine & Design’s  ”First Course” …

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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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