Cradle to Cradle® certifications emphasize our commitment to the environment and product transparency. We are excited to announce that we recently underwent the rigorous process of becoming Cradle to Cradle Certified™ for our recycled, outdoor furniture collections. Working with MBDC, the originators of the Cradle to Cradle® design framework and the...
It’s really fantastic to be part of the Makers Movement happening right now, and heading up a small design and manufacturing company in Minnesota has been very rewarding. I started making furniture in 2003 as a way to repurpose unused material from our TrueRide skate park ramps, featured in more...
Our annual “Clean Yer Creek” event consists of volunteers pulling garbage out of local creeks and planting trees along the creek beds. The aim is to protect the water quality of Lake Superior and enhance our local ecosystem. Organized by local businesses and spearheaded by Loll Designs, the plan is...
The new 92,000 square foot, $79 million dollar Bell Museum opened this past July in St. Paul, Minnesota. The Bell is Minnesota’s preeminent natural history museum since 1872 and now the all new Bell Museum continues to bring together science, art, and the environment with a unique Minnesota perspective. Designed...
The Lollygagger Pale Ale, a beer named after our flagship Lollygagger furniture collection, was a collaboration with our friends and local brewery Bent Paddle Brewing. 5% of the beer’s sales were donated to COGGS to complete the 100 mile urban single track Duluth Traverse bike trail system (see our past blog post here). When the...
This year’s Clean Yer Creek marked Loll's 10th year of tree planting! It’s been exciting to see this event evolve and grow from a small Loll employee event to the involvement of nearly two dozen other businesses. On May 20th nearly 130 volunteers helped with the annual tree planting. The...
At Loll we have always been inspired by original design and when we first set out to make an Adirondack chair it had to be our own version. But truly we are all just making an iteration of the original Adirondack chair. The one that has always inspired us is...
Once upon a Duluth winter night I was relaxing at home in front of a glowing orange fire and, like I tend to do, I started thinking about chairs. I thought it was time Loll had a chair that wasn’t an Adirondack. I grabbed some clean paper and started sketching...
COGGS, Duluth Climbers Coaltion and Duluth XC Ski Club each receive 20K donation to enhance outdoor recreation in Duluth. DULUTH, MN: Duluth-based Loll Designs, designers and manufacturers of modern outdoor furniture, announced a $60,000 donation to be spread equally among three local outdoor nonprofits: Duluth Climbers Coalition, Duluth XC Ski...
At Loll, we’ve always been about reusing things – from designing and manufacturing products that are 100% recycled and 100% recyclable to maintaining a zero waste production facility. This is good, but we’re continually looking for ways to take our green ways to a new level. One of our most...
The smell in the air. The crisp mornings. The pumpkin lattes at your local coffee shop. Ready or not, winter is coming. This time of year, we get many people wondering how they should care for their Loll furniture during the coming months. The answer is really quite simple: You...
The Economy of the North Depends on Clean Water Governor Dayton - Invest in sustainable local business development instead of spending state resources on environmental review, permitting and regulation of risky copper-nickel mines An open letter from the Downstream Business Coalition We are a group of more than 40 small...
If you call our customer service line, there’s a chance the voice on the other end may be that of Connie Haugen. Connie has been a customer service representative with us for 6 months and has been an incredibly welcome addition to our sales team. We thought it was about...
In 2011, Loll joined forces with one of the great names of mid-century design – one of the most prolific and well-loved architects of the twentieth century: Ralph Rapson. Ralph Rapson (1914-2008) was part of an exhilarating era in American modernist architecture/design and produced hundreds of furniture designs – many of...
A modern brewpub in our hometown of Duluth, Minn., Canal Park Brewing Company features craft brew and fresh food with a Northcoast attitude. With a patio situated right alongside Lake Superior, the brewery knew it needed some high-quality and durable – yet modern and sustainable – outdoor furniture. That’s where Loll came...
So you know that Loll chair you’re sitting in? Chances are, it was designed by Jeff Tally, our in-house design engineer. Jeff has been with Loll for almost 15 years – since the very beginning, when we were TrueRide, a design and build skate park contractor. Jeff started building ramps and then...
