Lerival is pleased to hear that the Hex Table by Incorporated A+D has “inspired” British GQ’s Tara Bernerd, and the Endless Sofa has left her full of “endless love”… We’re happy our pieces have reached across the pond, and can’t help hoping that the sound of the price in pounds aids ever so slightly in boosting the international shipping economy…
British GQ, April Issue: featuring lerival’s Hex Table & Endless Sofa
20 April 2010
lerival – now available at Propeller!
7 April 2010
lerival is proud to announce the availability of its collection through Propeller in San Francisco! Propeller is a design store dedicated to moving design forward in the residential realm by focusing upon emerging and independent North American designers & manufacturers. Propeller works to bring such products to clients seeking not just a good piece of design, but a piece with a good story – a mission lerival holds very close to its own, and is excited to be aligned with!
Incorporated A + D in NY Times!
4 March 2010
Lerival congratulates Incorporated for it’s feature in today’s Home & Garden section – “From Bachelor Pad to an Adult’s Home, for $8,000” - in which the firm was challenged to come up with a design solution for a young couple, low on cash, but eager for style. The apartment looks beautiful…and as a tribute to their spatial saviors, perhaps the couple’s first on-their-own purchase will be a few Hex Tables…
“JACK be nimble”: DVB’s JACK Table featured in the spring issue of SNAP
2 March 2010
Lerival is excited to announce the featuring of Della Valle Bernheimer’s JACK Table in SNAP’s spring issue, the Product Supplement to Architectural Record’s Sweets Network publication. Lerival’s founders, quoted as “moving beyond contract furnishings and presenting the system as a flexible option for the workplace and the home” hope for an emergence into the market that expresses precisely this: JACK Tables for every use, personalized while still modular, and designed to bring out the unique nature of each user and space.
JACK Table launches at tribeca Issey Miyake
16 February 2010
Lerival’s JACK Table, designed by Della Valle Bernheimer and selected as an Editor’s Pick in Architectural Record’s 2009 Product Report, launched last Thursday at tribeca’s Issey Miyake boutique to select members of the New York design community. Escaping the snow and warming up with a selection of sakes, guests were able to publicly view the patented design for the first time. Beginning April 15th, JACK will be available by order through lerival.com and tribeca Issey Miyake, both in its full form and as individual table legs.
American Design in Paris, featuring Moorhead & Moorhead
28 January 2010
Paris’ Triode Design launched an exciting showcase of contemporary American designers last Thursday at its space in the 6eme arondissement. The event, in partnership with the American Embassy and the NY / Paris-based design consulting agency futureflair, featured a forceful list of talent from across the US that included Jason Miller, John Pomp, Jonah Takagi, Josh Owen, and lerival’s Moorhead & Moorhead, among others.
The event, intended to raise awareness of American designers in a market saturated primarily with Europeans, marks the beginning of the exclusive availability of M&M’s Modular Screen at the showroom, as well as a limited feature of the designer’s Felt Stool.
For more information visit www.triode-design.com
lerival launch party at tribeca issey miyake (oct 15)
18 October 2009
Carl Fredrik Svenstedt referring to his Infinity Bench.
Overcoming stormy weather, lerival’s launch party at Tribeca Issey Miyake on October 15th successfully brought together designers, architects and furniture fans alike to sip sake, swap stories and speak spontaneously over lerival’s debut furniture collection and its place within America’s contentious contemporary furniture landscape.
On display were Moorhead & Moorhead’s Felt Stools and Modular Screen, the latter of which straddled the store while complementing Issey Miyake’s existing Frank Gehry-inspired sculpture; Carl Fredrik Svenstedt’s Infinity Bench suspended-in-motion in the window; Incorporated Architecture and Design’s range of Hex Tables, Chair and Ottoman; nARCHITECTS’ commanding Plate Shelf; and a preview of things to come with Della Valle Bernheimer’s JACK table legs.
Moderated by Laetitia Wolff of futureflair, the event culminated in a lively discussion between featured architects: Granger and Robert from Moorhead & Moorhead, Adam Rolston from Incorporated A+D and Carl Fredrik Svenstedt of his titular Paris-based firm together with valuable interjections from audience members, namely the enigmatic Giuseppe Lignano from LOT-EK. Up for discussion was the subject of mutual inspiration between furniture design and architecture and the differences between varying attitudes to furniture design on both sides of the Atlantic. Unlike their European cousins, our architects argued, the role of today’s successful US-based designer has, out of necessity, expanded beyond that of pure designer to include that of the modern businessman: aspiring Patricia Urquiola’s needing to form a company in order to successfully move into production. Admitting that designers rarely want, or can, go down that route, our participants concluded that a company such as lerival offers a much-needed alternative – a business modeled on designers remaining designers and that structures and cultivates the best manufacturing model for each piece. By redefining mass-production to still involve hands-on fine-tuning (Felt Stool) or breathing new life into a design that would have otherwise remained in the studio (Infinity Bench), lerival is building a new process, and a unique and holistic approach to furniture manufacturing in the US.
Front of Store
Conversation in Full Flow
Testing out the Infinity Bench
The Infinity Bench in Flight
Fabulous in the Foreground
Panoramic
Moorhead & Moorhead's Felt Stools Relaxing in the Corner
Incorporated's Hex Tables
Neither the weather nor the tiny drinks kept the cool kids away...
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