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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S+A meets the highest AFRDI strength tests

April 13, 2011

The Izaak chair is awarded the highest AFRDI Rating – Severe Use (Commercial). Your Health & Safety considerations are met by our chairs. Occupational Health & Safety (OH&S) considerations are on the rise with corporate and government managers – indicating they are addressing employee comfort, safety, and the long term performance of their furniture.The only way to ensure the compliance of seating to the Australian Standards is to purchase products that are independently …

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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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Schamburg+Alvisse launch the Native Collection

August 18, 2010

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

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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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Pebble Ottoman awarded Australian Design Mark 2010

February 9, 2010

Pebble Ottoman recently received the 2010 Australian Design Awards Design Mark. At a time when slower, more meaningful and handcrafted furniture is gaining international recognition, Schamburg + Alvisse present Pebble Modular Ottomans as a unique new collection of eco seating in three sizes. GECA rated, Green Building Council Australia compliant(100% green star points), and FSC (Forestry Stewardship Council) certified, Pebble cuts through the flood of greenwash claims to offer credible, …

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2006 Apr/May Belle: Meet the Makers

April 1, 2006

Nigel Bartlett from Belle magazine look at how Sydney furniture makers Schamburg + Alvisse have designed a piece just for the sheer fun of it. Michael Alvisse explains the thinking behind Stop Playin’ With Yourself. “Stop Playin’ With Yourself is a play piece – the most important thing is that you touch it, you feel it, you engage with it. It’s a real physical interaction. Each piece is made up …

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