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The Eichholtz showroom in Noordwijkerhout, near Amsterdam
THE EICHHOLTZ LAS VEGAS JOURNAL corey damen jenkins

The Eichholtz Heritage: 30+ Years of Curated Design

From a young Dutchman's first shipping container in 1992 to one of Europe's most recognized luxury furniture houses. The Eichholtz story — and why it matters in Las Vegas.

The story of Eichholtz begins, as a great many luxury houses do, with a young person who could not stop looking. In the late 1980s, a Dutchman named Theo Eichholtz spent a stretch of years traveling through Asia. He was twenty-something, curious, and increasingly preoccupied with the kind of furniture and objects that were everywhere if you knew how to see them — colonial benches in Indonesian guesthouses, hammered brass trays in market stalls, hand-cast bronze candlesticks in temple antechambers, the kind of pieces that had been built to outlast the people who first owned them. He started buying. He started shipping things home.

A passion for design, travel, and discovery — and a single shipping container that landed, famously, at his parents' garage in the Netherlands.

That first container is now part of the brand's mythology. Theo's parents — a Dutch grocery family with no particular interest in becoming antique dealers — opened their garage doors to discover that their son had filled it with the start of an inventory. From that beginning, Eichholtz has become one of the most recognized luxury furniture houses in Europe, with a 35,000 square meter warehouse and a 4,000 square meter showroom in Noordwijkerhout, just outside Amsterdam, and a presence in more than a hundred countries through showrooms, design partners, and trade specifications. Today, the company's pieces appear in more than ten thousand of the world's most prestigious hotels, restaurants, private clubs, branded residences, and boutiques.

The Eichholtz showroom in Noordwijkerhout, near Amsterdam — 4,000 square meters of curated European design.
The Eichholtz showroom in Noordwijkerhout, near Amsterdam.
1992First container
100+Countries served
10,000+Hospitality projects
35,000 m²Noordwijk warehouse

From an importer to an editor

The earliest version of Eichholtz was an importer's business. Theo found beautiful things abroad, brought them to Europe, and sold them through trade networks. What changed everything — and what makes the brand what it is today — was the slow, deliberate evolution from importing to editing, and then from editing to designing. By the early 2000s, Eichholtz had begun developing an in-house design studio, working closely with manufacturers in Europe and Asia to produce furniture that was not just curated but conceived, drawing on the brand's accumulating archive of references and the team's increasingly confident editorial voice.

That voice is what designers reach for when they reach for Eichholtz. It is editorial in the literal sense: the catalog functions as a curated library of moments, not a unified style. A single Eichholtz console can sit comfortably in a Hollywood Regency penthouse, a Mediterranean villa, a Park Avenue prewar, or a contemporary glass house in Aspen — because the brand designs each piece to be an excellent example of its own type rather than a uniform expression of a house aesthetic. There is no Eichholtz "look" the way there is a Roche-Bobois look or a B&B Italia look. There is, instead, an Eichholtz standard — proportions that sit, materials that age, finishes that work harder than they need to.

What the catalog actually contains

The Eichholtz collection numbered in the thousands of pieces by the late 2010s and now exceeds 3,000 active SKUs at any given time. Sofas, sectionals, lounge chairs, dining chairs, bar stools, occasional seating. Coffee tables, side tables, console tables, dining tables, desks. Cabinets, dressers, nightstands, bedroom programs, and freestanding bars. A lighting catalog of more than 500 pieces — table lamps, floor lamps, wall sconces, pendants, chandeliers — that runs from delicate crystal-and-brass picks for a powder room to a twelve-arm centerpiece for a hospitality lobby. Mirrors. Rugs. An indoor-outdoor program built on weather-rated materials. And accessories — what the brand calls Luxury Accents — running into hundreds of pieces of vases, hurricanes, candle holders, decorative objects, picture frames, trays, boxes, sculpture.

It is, frankly, a lot. That breadth is not accidental. Eichholtz designs to a global hospitality and residential brief, and the catalog has to flex from a Greek-isle resort to a Chicago penthouse without flinching. The discipline that holds it together is the in-house studio, which works year over year on a coherent material vocabulary — hand-finished brass, polished chrome, blackened steel, solid hardwoods, real marble, hand-blown glass — and on a small set of editorial throughlines that recur, season after season, in fresh forms.

The collaborations that have shaped the brand

One of the most consistent through-lines of Eichholtz's last decade has been its appetite for collaboration. The brand has built an unusually strong roster of named partnerships with designers, makers, and cultural institutions — and each collaboration tends to leave a permanent mark on the larger catalog.

The most consequential of these to date is The Met x Eichholtz, a multi-year partnership with The Metropolitan Museum of Art that draws inspiration from the museum's collection of more than two million artworks. Launched globally in 2023 and now in its third season, the collaboration has produced almost two hundred furniture, lighting, and accessories pieces that translate motifs from The Met's archives into modern, livable design. Among them are sculptural columns, hand-inlaid wall art, vases that nod to Egyptian, Greek, and Asian decorative traditions, and a hospitality-scale trolley named Harrold whose brass detail reads almost as a small architectural model.

Alongside The Met sit two more recent collaborations the showroom is built to celebrate: the Corey Damen Jenkins Lighting Collaboration — a thirty-two piece capsule with the celebrated American interior designer that introduces a lyrical, almost jewel-like quality to chandeliers, sconces, and table lamps — and the Maison Moghadam Rug Collection, ten hand-tufted rugs in ten- and six-and-a-half-foot scales developed with the rug designer Kamyar Moghadam.

A pair of Eichholtz lounge chairs, photographed in a softly lit interior — quiet upholstery, sculpted forms, materials that age well.
From the Eichholtz seating catalog — quiet upholstery, sculpted forms, materials made to age well.

Materials, made to age

If you spend any meaningful amount of time inside an Eichholtz showroom, two things tend to happen. First, you start noticing the brass — the way a hand-finished surface picks up the light differently from a polished one, the way the warmth of a brushed finish reads against an oak top. Second, you start trusting the seams. Eichholtz upholstery is sewn with the kind of consistency that only comes from a manufacturing tradition that takes the back of the cushion as seriously as the front.

The brand's commitment to materials is not a marketing line. It is operational. The studio specifies real brass rather than brass-plate, solid hardwood rather than veneer-on-MDF, hand-blown glass rather than press-mold, real marble rather than printed laminate. That discipline costs more, takes longer, and is genuinely the reason designers spend their careers reaching for Eichholtz when a project needs something that will still feel right ten years from now.

Why this matters in Las Vegas

For more than thirty years, Eichholtz has shaped the way the world's most prestigious hotels, residences, and private clubs feel — including a meaningful number of projects in Las Vegas. What has been missing is a permanent showroom. Designers and homeowners working in Las Vegas have specified Eichholtz for years, but they have done it from line sheets, samples shipped from Holland, and the occasional trip to a partner showroom in Los Angeles or Atlanta. Eichholtz Las Vegas changes that math. The full collection — including The Met x Eichholtz, the Corey Damen Jenkins lighting capsule, and the Maison Moghadam rugs — sits at Tivoli Village in Summerlin, with a Nevada inventory backbone designed to compress lead times and a team that thinks like a project office rather than a retail counter.

That is the heritage. That is what we are bringing to Las Vegas.

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