Vivavi Opens Pop-Up Eco Store at Riverhouse
by Sami Grover, Carrboro, NC, USA on 07.25.08
Eco-Furniture Store in Eco-Appartment Building
It seems hard to reconcile the adjective “lazy” with Josh Dorfman – from interviews with TreeHugger to appearances on NPR’s Science Friday, the author of “The Lazy Environmentalist” and CEO of green furniture company Vivavi certainly goes to great lengths to push his vision of a bright, green, modern and convenient future. His latest venture is NYC’s first eco-friendly pop up store inside Riverhouse, “Manhattan’s greenest luxury condominium in Battery Park City” (which Lloyd wrote about back in 2006). The store features sustainable, high-end home furnishings by 18 of the world’s top designers. Perhaps reclaiming his “lazy” moniker somewhat, Josh enthused about the appeal of the new store:
“Our pop-up store is a wonderful way for Riverhouse residents and visitors to discover easy, stylish and convenient ways to further green their lifestyles. They don‘t need to leave the building in order to be introduced to cutting-edge sustainable products, emerging design trends, and home innovations underway.”
For anyone wanting to check out some of the furniture on show at Riverhouse, much is available via the Vivavi online store too. Be warned, the prices are not for the faint hearted - but they don't call this designer furniture for nothing...
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I have issue with these types of stores. When you open up a store that is supposedly promoting and showcasing eco-furniture and "green alternative", don't make everything completely unattainable. Your typical buyer cannot afford any of the items. At least make the effort to have stock that people can look at and consider buying. At present many green items are slightly more expensive simply because they are not produced in bulk like Walmart level products. The more people demand these things, the better the price point will become.
hello I am a Brazilian furniture designer, I love wood ,and in my work you can check it.
yes, it´s true eco design is more expencive than others, but this situation is the way you treat the trees and the people how leaves close of the forrest in a eco way... the chipest way to get wood don´t care about the way you will cut (don´t matters how many trees wiil be killed when that one cutted felt down) and when (if the tree is big enough to drop). It is a big and complicated sistem to put in order.
All that work make the wood price get bigger, and make us to respect the material even more, trying to make the best as we can.
For those how want to take a look what I do here in Brazil this is my site: www.estevaotoledo.com.br
This isn't "Green," it's "Greed."
Ed don´t get me wrong, to be green everybody have to reicived for own job, including people from the forest or how work on furniture, this get the price higher, but became a men in citizen . Other way to make the price lower is made in China and use kids´ handmade or put people to work 16 hours a day, we have to look all over the world and not just put the trash out of our yards.
i hope you understand what I say, to be a designer in Brazil is a very hard work.
Best regards Estê.