The main living room with its ochre sectional and grey tufted sofa facing full-height glazing onto the rainforest canopy.

Furniture · ETZ & Co.

Designed for this house, and for nowhere else

Every piece in this house was drawn for the room it stands in — for its proportions, its light, its climate and its outlook. Nothing here was chosen from a catalogue.

The commission

Born from Azur

ETZ & Co. were asked to furnish a house in the heart of the mountains — mist, panoramic light, and a contemporary tropical Brutalism to answer to. What they delivered is not a furniture package. It is a second design layer, made to belong to this architecture.

Every element was selected or drawn for the position it occupies. Fabrics, textures, colours, proportions, placement and purpose were all considered for this project alone. The house was completed furnished on that basis — complex to deliver, and unusually coherent for it.

The furniture you find at Azur is unique. These are pieces conceived specifically for this architecture, this landscape, and this way of living. They did not exist before Azur because they were born from Azur.

ETZ & Co.
The sunken living room photographed from above, showing the grey and ochre seating and the round timber tables composed as a single group on the pale floor.
Seen from above, the living room reads as one composition: seating, tables and rug drawn together rather than assembled. Photography: ConeCat · Furniture: ETZ & Co.

Method

A dialogue with tropical Brutalism

The house reveals its materials honestly — board-formed concrete left as it was cast, teak left as teak, metal left dark. The furniture follows the same logic rather than softening it.

Wood is expressed in its natural condition. Grain, end-cut and figure are part of the design instead of something to be sanded away. Stone tops sit on solid bases. Frames are visible. Joinery is not hidden.

Made in Costa Rica, with solid tropical hardwood, leather, woven detail and textiles specified for a humid climate. etzandco.com

A black stone side table and two solid timber stump tables grouped on a pale floor in raking light, their end-grain and cut edges left visible.
Stone and solid timber, left to read as themselves. ConeCat

Form

Bold, and never at the expense of comfort

There is an audacity in the geometry here — forms that are substantial and deliberately take up room. Brutalist architecture draws attention through the strength and clarity of its shapes; these pieces do the same, then remain comfortable to live in.

Overhead view of a cluster of sculpted hardwood nesting tables, each cut as an irregular petal-like shape and finished to show the grain.
Nesting tables cut as irregular petals — one of several pieces drawn only for this house. ConeCat
A fluted solid timber pedestal table with a pale inset top, standing on the terrace decking.
A fluted pedestal echoing the board-formed concrete of the walls. ConeCat
A black textured cube table on short round feet, catching a line of warm light on a timber floor.
A blackened cube on turned feet, set against warm timber. ConeCat

Materials

Seven materials, one visual language

Stone, natural woods, textiles, transparent elements, sculpture, lighting and outdoor furniture coexist here. Each brings a different dimension to the space; together they resolve into a single composition.

  • Stone

    Cut and hewn tops set on solid bases — cool, heavy, and left to read as stone.

  • Natural wood

    Solid tropical hardwood, sculpted or slatted, finished so the grain and the end-cut stay visible.

  • Textiles

    Woven, printed and plain cloth in ochre, teal, forest and bone, specified for a humid climate.

  • Transparency

    Glass and open frames that let the forest through the furniture rather than around it.

  • Sculpture

    Vessels, carved objects and wall pieces placed as part of the composition, not as afterthought.

  • Lighting

    Floor and pendant pieces treated as objects with presence, lit warm against dark concrete.

  • Indoor & out

    One language carried across the threshold — the terrace furniture belongs to the same family.

Cushions in ochre, multicoloured weave and slate blue arranged along the ochre sofa.
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Detail of a chair where a tan leather seat is stretched and stitched over a bent timber and black metal frame.
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Close detail of the pale green woven rope back of an outdoor chair against a leaf-printed cushion.
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Close detail of a cream cushion printed with green and terracotta tropical leaves.
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Through the house

The same language, room to room

The furniture does not simply inhabit the house. It carries the architectural idea into the way each room is used — and across the threshold onto the decks, where the same family of pieces continues in weatherable materials.

Wide view of the living room with the ochre sectional, blue and rust cushions and sculpted timber occasional tables, framed by tall windows onto the canopy.
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Living

A low ochre sectional and a deep tufted sofa held together by sculpted timber and stone tables, kept below the sightline so the canopy stays the view.

The dining room: a long timber table with dark upholstered chairs under a slatted teak ceiling, open to the kitchen beyond.
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Dining & kitchen

A single long table under the teak ceiling, and a run of tan leather stools at the island — the working heart of the house given the same weight as the living room.

The long covered terrace with leather sling loungers, low tables and cushioned sofas running the length of the timber deck above the forest.
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Terrace & pool

Leather slings, rope loungers and a circular daybed, all detailed for weather and placed to face the trees rather than each other.

The principal bedroom: a low upholstered bed against a fluted brass headboard wall, with a timber nightstand alongside.
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Suites & bathrooms

Low upholstered beds against fluted headboard walls, carved stools, and turned timber beside the black baths — quieter, but from the same hand.

We do not bring furniture into a space. We design the furniture that the space itself calls for.

ETZ & Co.

Azur is architecture, landscape, materiality and furniture speaking the same language.

Gallery

The furniture in place

41 photographs of the furnished interiors and terraces.

Photography: ConeCat · Furniture design: ETZ & Co.

Photographs show the residence as completed and furnished. An optional furniture package is available; which pieces convey with a sale, and on what terms, is confirmed on enquiry.

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