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

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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Secrets & Stories by Michael Alvisse

September 11, 2010

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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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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Marc Schamburg + Michael Alvisse, Photography: Anthony Geernaer,t Art Direction: Frost Design, Sydney

Freestyle Exhibition

March 5, 2007

Schamburg + Alvisse have been featured in the Freestyle Exhibition in Object Gallery, Sydney (2007), Melbourne Museum (2007) and the Milan Triennale Museum (2008). “Freestyle: new Australian design for living brings together the work and stories of outstanding Australian designers” Showcasing designers from the fields of furniture, lighting, textiles, homewares, fashion, jewellery and accessories, this rare exhibition aims to reflect the character, vibrancy and increasing maturity of contemporary design in …

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2005 ID Magazine – ‘Stop Playing With Yourself’

December 9, 2005

The Stop Playing With Yourself module was born when its designer, Michael Alvisse, nearly drowned. He had been training as a volunteer lifeguard at Tamarama Beach, a pretty stretch of sand near Sydney that gets whipped by tremendous waves, and one day he found himself struggling in the water, battered by heavy surf, and drifting toward a ragged cluster of rocks. A fellow volunteer swam out and shepherded him back …

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2000 Sep/Oct Marie Claire Lifestyle: 50 Australian stylemakers

September 30, 2000

Schamburg + Alvisse have been listed as part of 50 Australian stylemakers across the worlds of design, food, wine, landscape design and architecture who have overcome the tyranny of distance to find their place on the global stage… Schamburg + Alvisse Furniture Designers Practice: Schamburg + Alvisse is a small Sydney-based design company creating furniture, lighting and product design. Recent projects: selected to design and supply gallery furniture for the …

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Salone Satellite Milan Salone del Mobili [Milan Furniture Fair] Exhibition

September 9, 2000

“This year [2000] marked the debut appearance of Schamburg+Alvisse, who showed bright white furniture and lamps. like the light that floods Australian interiors. Marc Schamburg and Michael Alvisse decided to come to Milan and gathered three design studios – Ruth mcDermott and Rina Bernabei of Ovo Design, Tonka Andjelkovic and Tina Gounios, and Michael Tyler – to create a Sydney collective, called 612. Common denominators in this group show were …

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2000 Jul – Australian Style: Doing Time… For Design

July 1, 2000

… Satellite 2000 was a platform for not one but two Australian appearances.Tucked away amidst 18 invited design colleges was Melbourne’s RMIT University exhibiting its Industrial Design class of 99. Holding proud was Sydney 612, a clever collaboration between four independent design groups, the initiative of Marc Schamburg & Michael Alvisse. 612 comprised of the winner of a young designer competition, Michael Tyler who teamed up with the more established …

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