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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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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Action Earth: Interview with Ian Thorpe

October 30, 2008

Schamburg + Alvisse’s “green” furniture has been featured in Foxtel’s Action Earth television program. Action Earth is a series of 20 short programs hosted by world swimming champion Ian Thorpe. It aims to educate and provide viewers with a hands-on approach to improve the environment. See the action earth video on furniture below: Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on …

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Sydney Morning Herald – Top Line Living

June 11, 2008

Laura Demasi from Sydney Morning Herald talks to interior designer Marc Schamburg and architect Michael Alvisse about creating an innovative eco furniture brand trusted by some of the world’s most ethical companies* (*as compiled by Ethisphere, 2008). see the video from the smh website 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

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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2001 Object Magazine: DesignerSpeak – interview with Cassandra King

September 28, 2000

Q. What is a typical day like at the schamburg+alvisse design studio? S+A: Always a buzz with lots of laughter. Q. Do you collect art and design? S+A: We have a very humble collection including glasswork by Anu Pentinnen and paintings by Paul Battams. Q. What was your last purchase of contemporary design? S+A: Our Le Cruset cooking – does that count? We also bought that pesky Newson dish rack. …

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1997 Inside Magazine – Profile: Schamburg + Alvisse Vision

September 16, 1997

Marc Schamburg and Michael Alvisse have an explorative approach to design. In an aesthetic sense, they are excited by the possibilities of essential forms. Schamburg says that a recent television documentary on Japanese sculptor Isamu Noguchi “reminded me how simplified and pared down I like things to be”. This includes the way forms play with light and “how people interact with them.” says Alvisse. “We don’t want to create static …

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