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Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Loll Loves Minnesota Public Radio
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 chairs, a picnic table, and a complete set of the Armless Series, all in black of course. MN Public Radio used the Loll pieces to entice intelligent folk into their booth to listen to the radio broadcast and just to lollygag.
Again at the beloved MN State Fair Grounds in St. Paul, MN, Loll also provided MPR with 24 black benches so the denizens of the fair could again relax and actually watch the radio broadcast live. We were told that the benches worked out wonderfully for their intended purpose of holding peoples bottoms. Since the Fair is a temporary and annual thing, MPR will be using the benches at their corporate offices on the outdoor 5th floor patio until they are again called into derriere action at the State Fair and other MPR events around the region.
posted by loll designs @ 8:39 AM
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Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Dwell on Design
Loll just attended Dwell on Design conference in brilliant San Francisco. Primarily a show with a focus on 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 three days by both the trades and the green conscious public.
The Mayor , Gavin Newsom, made an appearence Friday evening while the Lollygaggers and the impeccable Hive Modular architects were stationed comfortably in the DWR Airstream. Stepping inside the trailer a famous smile spread across his face with what must have been the realization of how fun it would be to hang-out with these cool guys from Minnesota. Unfortunately the ice cold Sierra Nevada beer and talk about how wonderful the Airstream would be as a fish house on a frozen lake in the winter, wasn't enough to get him to sit for a spell.
 Loll furniture was shown throughout the exhibit but primarily we were planted in the innovative Dwell Outdoor area designed by Shades of Green and installed by the hard working Bertotti Landscaping crew. At the DWR Airstream we had two Adirondacks and a Go Series Table. Near the kitHAUS we had a Go Series side table and two club chairs decorated with hand stiched pillows from Propeller. This was our second public display of the Go Series after the Southern California Home and Garden show and people genuinely like the design and comfort of the chair. The upright back and seat height are made for the more active  Lollygaggers and for people who like to get in and out of their relaxation in a hurry like the Hive Modular guys. The entire Dwell Outdoor area was set-up in just over 24 hours and taken down in half that time. Both real and artificial sod was used as well as floating decking, concrete pavers, and tumbled glass. 
Speaking of Hive Modular...
There must be some truth to the old adage that birds of a feather flock together. My travelling companion, Nate, and I found ourselves drawn into the Hive booth on numerous occasions during the show while making plans for the evening activities. Speeding through the streets in a white Avenger to Salt House and finally finding Pliny the Elder; the holy grail of IPA, at the Toronado, were just some of the fantastic adventures we had with Paul and Bryan.
We also had a chance to visit the San Francisco Room & Board and found to our surprise the Emmet and Ottoman resting pleasantly in the sun outside the front door! Room & Board is doing an early spring launch in warmer climates with a full launch of Loll products in the spring of 2008. Needless to say we are very excited about this.
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Monday, July 30, 2007
During the past year Loll has been on the road showing our wares at various trade and consumer shows. It seems that each show introduces us to great new products, ideas and people. One of the standouts has been Jason Hammond. We met him at the Minneapolis Home and Garden Show in March and then ran across him again at the Living Green Expo in St Paul. Jason is in the process of building a new green/modern home and he is also blogging about it for the Star Tribune. He is doing a great job of updating his blog (unlike Loll) and has gone into some detail on the ups and downs of building a home that is incorporating green construction techniques and also modern sensibilities. Maybe we will get to see some Loll Furniture on Jason's deck.
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Monday, June 4, 2007
Design Week NYC
 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!
AfterGlow Our new friend DouglasHomer tweaked our most popular chair, the Medium Flat, and brought it to ICFF with the idea of making it in Glow-In-The-Dark material. Doug is calling the concept AfterGlow. Doug was showing the Hairy Bertoia at ICFF as well as his graffiti burned mid century "antique" furniture titled the BronxProject. Doug refurbs the ubiquitous Bertoia chairs and ottomans by hand knotting extruded sponge cord in a variety of colors to the freshly powder coated frames. The chairs are really comfortable to sit in and you can use them outdoors as well. Along that same idea of improving on an existing design, Doug tweaked the loll chair and gave it a lot more life after sunset. Moving forward we will be offering the entire line in AfterGlow. We met one person from Montana who wanted to put it way out on the golf course they live on. Another thought it would be great at the end of their dock. Being a midnight boater I think that is the best idea yet.
Haute Green Running simultaneously with ICFF is Design Week which is off-site from ICFF and located in different locations in the city including the Meat Packing District and Soho. There were gobs of temporary installations and permanent exhibitions of furniture to peruse and ogle over. One exhibition, HauteGREEN, highlighted the best in sustainable design for the home. Loll was one of 70 showing and was selected from more than 240 submitting designers. We were proud to have our Armless Series right in the middle of the exhibition.
 The opening night of HauteGREEN (Friday Night of course) included beer and energy drinks and the Rolling Stones blasting throughout the well attended venue. (The pic above is from a tamed down Saturday morning).The queue at the door was long and people could only get in as people left. It would be easy to say it was for the free drinks but there was a rumor that Robert Redford was attending and I think that created a draw in itself. We met up with Josh Dorfman, aka. The Lazy Environmentalist. It turns out that Josh is not so lazy about his dancing as we discovered after we left HauteGREEN. We met John Stein from Organo. John makes wonderful and functional interior pieces from natural materials. John had a great passion for doing the right thing with the environment and he also knew how to attack a late night New York deli. Although Friday night did come to a close, the exhibition was a great success and carried on through Monday.
DWR There was also a satellite exhibition at the Design Within Reach store located in the Flatiron district. You can imagine our surprise as we walked up to the store through the rain and smells of Manhattan to find the red Loll Armless in the front window!
The quote from George Nelson in the window looking in at the Loll chair reads: "What you make is important." This really summed it well. At loll we always put quality first; quality in materials, design, construction, and comfort. But quality is lost, for me, if what you make isn't green.
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Thursday, February 8, 2007
Loll Designs outdoor furniture has grown from the desire to reduce the manufacturing footprint of TrueRide Skateparks and Epicurean Cutting 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 one step further, the Loll Designs Color Pallet is now produced with 100% Post Consumer Recycled Plastic*. The plastic materials we use are recycled HDPE (# 2 recycled plastic) and come from a variety of sources. I can tell you our white chairs and benches have a faint but lovely scent of root beer left over from the materials former life as containers.
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*Black plastic is 100% post industrial recycled material and pieces of each chair also come from what would have been skate park waste.
Oh Yeah, We now have FREE SHIPPING........get ready, here comes summer!
posted by loll designs @ 9:15 AM
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Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Kids Chair Coming Soon
 Sam says that the prototype is getting really close to being perfect.
posted by loll designs @ 8:02 AM
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Thursday, December 14, 2006
Happy Lollidays from Loll Designs.......
posted by loll designs @ 8:31 AM
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