"This is more than a piece of furniture. It's a piece of art that reflects your lifestyle.
Tahoe Quarterly
Collaborative Excellence | Mountain Home Awards 2025
February 28, 2025
Epitomizing the fun nature of the home’s design, a burnt orange double ski lift chair by Ski Lift Designs resides in front of a Pierre Frey wallcovering at the end of a hallway.
5280 Magazine
The 11 Best Colorado Gifts for Skiers and Snowboarders
November 26, 2024
Englewood-based Ski Lift Designs got its start converting retired chairlifts into living room decor, ...but might we suggest a handmade, wool throw pillow? These beauts start at just $37 and will upgrade even the simplest ski-bum crash pad.
Interior Design
Step Into The ‘60s At This Retro-Chic Canadian Hotel
November 1, 2024
In a lower-level corridor at Moxy Banff...custom neon signage backs a ski-lift chair, perfect for selfies, while the palette of the neighboring floor tile and custom wallcovering channels the era of the original property.
Unofficial Networks: Ski and Mountain News
You Can Put A Literal Gondola In Your Home For $25,000
May 30, 2024
Ski Lift Designs sells a whole host of authentic, refurbished ski lifts from around North America, but this incredible Breckenridge Gondola might be our favorite piece.
Interior Design Magazine
This Park City Property Boasts Stunning Views and Elevated Amenities
October 6, 2022
Houses are often dated and ostentatious, with little connection to their surroundings. The Iluminus Group wanted to prove the stereotype wrong at a private enclave in Park City, Utah. A repurposed chairlift hangs at the foot of the oak staircase, which has a plaster surround.
FreeSkier Magazine
Ski Lift Designs Brings the Mountains Home with its Custom Chairlifts
March 29, 2019
Every skier treasures the chairlift. Of all the ways to reach a mountaintop, there’s something unique and peaceful about gliding through the sky on a couch next to your best friends, or a stranger with a few good stories.
The Fabricator Digital
Ski Lift Designs Gives New Life to Old Ski Lift Chairs
September 13, 2018
For Boiteau, his favorite part is the collaboration: "My favorite challenge is working with someone who has seen what we’ve done and said, ‘Here’s my vision.’ You and this customer come together and get to a point where our experiences and artistic visions come together. We get to a point where it’s a leap of faith for them and a leap of faith for us."
Denver Channel 9 News
A Few Denver Guys Made a Business Out of Refurbishing Ski Lift Chairs
July 4, 2018
There's a small business in Denver that takes old chairlifts and turns them into works of art that are being sold all over the world.
The Gazette
Denver-based Ski Lift Designs Makes Cool Furniture Out of Old Chairlifts
March 31, 2018
We're not lucky enough to be living in Aspen or Vail. It's a great feeling to bring that to your house in Denver or Colorado Springs. Skiing is unique in that it's a sport you can enjoy with other people. When you hop on a lift, you talk. It makes it a unique product.
Curbed Magazine
These Vintage Ski Chairlifts Were Upcycled Into Chic Furniture
January 29, 2018
Companies like Denver-based Ski Lift Designs are proving that upcycled ski furniture doesn’t have to be tacky. Instead, it can be downright inspired. Ski Lift Designs takes cast-away chairlifts and repurposes them into what co-founder Jacques Boiteau calls “interactive art".
Business Denver
Old Chairlifts Find New Purpose With Denver Startup
January 19, 2018
If there’s a chairlift chair rusting in a junk pile in North America, Jacques Boiteau and his crew will find it. Since launching Ski Lift Designs last year, the four friends have collected 250 old chairlift chairs to re-purpose into indoor and patio furniture.
Denver CBS Local
Startup Collects Chairs From Old Ski Lifts, Turns Them Into Attractive Furniture
January 19, 2018
No one has really taken them to the level that does these chairs justice...It’s an interesting process because no chair is the same … You hang it up and it’s not centered and not right.
Unofficial Networks: Ski and Mountain News
This Company That Restores Old Chairlifts For Home Use Is Awesome
November 17, 2017
Have you ever wanted to decorate your living space with an authentic chairlift but don’t want to go through the runaround of finding one and restoring it yourself?