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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Native Collection now certified FSC sustainable

April 21, 2011

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

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 launch the Native Collection

August 18, 2010

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

Schamburg+Alvisse: New Ideas from Old

June 30, 2010

Article: The Innovative Household Magazine 2010 Sandy Leen asks how furniture designers are transforming old ideas and unwanted items into stylish and functional handcrafted furniture: Fancy a table fashioned from disused engine parts or recycled forks? Or is relaxing in a lounge chair made of inflatable material more your style? Such entries in the spring 2009 Melbourne Fringe Furniture Festival reflect an increasing trend amongst furniture designers towards re-furbishing and …

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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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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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