Our Picket Chairs were recently spotted on the popular design site, Mocoloco. They are sittin’ pretty on the deck of the Leavitt House which was designed by Ranquist Development. The structure was built in the 1920’s and was once used as a mercantile building. Located in Chicago, it is now a 3-story home with both industrial...
America Recycles Day was November 15th and Loll Designs was proud to participate in the Plastics Make it Possible Campaign. Plastics Make it Possible is a website that highlights the many ways plastics inspire innovations that improve our lives, solve big problems and help us design a safer, more promising future. This initiative is sponsored...
Loll is excited to be enrolled with our local power company in developing renewable energy. Minnesota Power offers customers the opportunity to buy electricity that is wind-generated by subscribing for blocks of wind energy for a surcharge. Read more about this here.
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1% for the Planet 1% For The Planet is a growing global movement of 1201 companies that donate 1% of their gross sales to a network of more than 1,781 environmental organizations worldwide. Their Mission: 1% for the Planet exists to build and support an alliance of businesses financially committed...
Good Design Award Loll Cabrio chair won a 2009 Good Design Award See the Cabrio on lolldesigns.com In December of 2009, the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studieshonored Loll Designs with a 2009 Good Design Award for our Cabrio Outdoor Lounge Chair. In...
All of us at Loll are stoked to be able to contribute to environmental groups working every day to keep our planet blue and green. Again, for our second year as a member of 1%, we are abiding by the adage of thinking globally and acting locally with our donations....
Loll and Epicurean employees kicked-off this past Memorial weekend with our annual tree planting. This year we put in around 2000 trees and had more than 20 employees participate in the earthy affair. Loll employees and helper unloading trees at Chester Park It was a nice sunny and warm day for Duluth; a...
Throughout the architectural and construction community LEED certified buildings are all the buzz. LEED, or Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, was developed by the U.S. Green Building Council in 1998. The basic premise of LEED is to design and construct a building that meets high standards for environmentally sustainable...
How did Loll start doing all this lollygagging you ask? Loll’s history dates back to 1997 with the creation of TrueRide, a design and build contractor specializing in custom municipal skate parks. The TrueRide crew designed, built, installed, and serviced more than 400 custom skateboard parks in cities all over the...
Loll had the distinct opportunity to work with Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) twice over the summer of 2007. As well as covering local news MPR also broadcasts progressive music via The Current. Check it out. We kicked it off together at the Living Green Expo at the MN State Fair Grounds with a full compliment of Adirondack...
Loll just attended Dwell on Design conference in brilliant San Francisco. Primarily a show with a focuson prefab and modern green homes, there was also an assortment of graphic artists, speakers, landscape architecture, fountains, and of course furniture of the indoor and outdoor variety. Green Seed Radio covered the event that was well attended all...
ICFF We just returned from the amazing Design Week and the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) in NYC. Initially intended to be a reconnoitering trip to see how or even if loll should show in 2008, to our great surprise we ended up showing in three locations! Haute Green Running...
Loll Designs outdoor furniture has grown from the desire to reduce the manufacturing footprint of TrueRide Skateparks and EpicureanCutting Surfaces. From the beginning Loll was envisioned as a green product with parts of each piece of furniture coming from what would have been waste from skatepark production. Loll has taken its environmental commitment...
Sam says that the prototype is getting really close to being perfect.
