Lensvelt
Dutch furniture since 1962. Designed by artists, architects and designers who each get the same brief: make what doesn’t exist yet. Radically unique pieces. Built in NL, used everywhere.
furniture
Chairs, tables, sofas and the occasional skull. All in production, all built to outlast the building.
Chair 101 Upholstered
AVL Office Chair
2THRD Chair 141
AVL Workbench
AVL Skull
K93
AVL koker Chair 141
Lazy Modernist
W.H. Gispen 205 chair
AVL Glyder 240 Sofa
AVL Cloudtable
LC95
Coquille Chair 101
BOLD Sofa 3P
designers
A family of artists, architects and designers that would never agree with each other. That’s the point. Every piece starts with one of them.
SPR Cathedra + W.H. Gispen Coffee Table two tops
A meeting corner with the AVL SPR Cathedra by Atelier Van Lieshout and the W.H. Gispen coffee table. Click a name to see the product.
Projects
Hotels, museums, offices and public spaces, from Depot Boijmans in Rotterdam to the W Hotel in Osaka.
Sustainability
Built to last, taken back through our Circular Pool and given a second life. Made by partners within an hour of Breda, on our own solar power.
stories
A flying saucer in Eindhoven, a newsroom in Berlin, a farmhouse in Belgium. Radically unique furniture for exceptional settings.
- 1966 the year the flying saucer landed in Eindhoven.
- 24 adjustable 4000 tables, from 67 to 108 cm high.
- 54 outdoor tables around the building.
- 3 AVL Skulls, and one DeLorean.
- 120 chairs: a limited edition of the Maarten Baas 101 Chair.
- 9 characters, each with its own facial expression.
- 9 colours, with soft mohair wigs that come separately.
- 6 m of catwalk in the Lensvelt Gallery, designed by Van Beirendonck himself.
- 52,000 m² of newsroom, stacked around one diagonal canyon.
- 3,000+ people work here, three quarters formal, one quarter not.
- 72 truckloads of furniture, coordinated over seven months in Berlin.
- 12 shapes of custom sofa, plus eight OMA-designed island seats.
- 1 farmhouse just across the Belgian border, renovated by architect Eline Strijkers.
- 1 long orange kitchen unit by Atelier van Lieshout, through the glazed brick interior.
- 2 Cane Divans by Simo Heikkilä on the lawn, the AVL Cloudtable and Glyders by the pond.
- 5 Lensvelt pieces at home: Cloudtable, SPR Cathedra, New Balance, Cane Divan and Shaker.