Our Mission
At Levenger, we create useful and beautiful products that
help people achieve their goals and fulfill their aspirations—tools for serious
readers, and products designed for reading, writing and working with ideas.
Where is Levenger?
You can shop for Levenger products at our retail
stores in Boston, Chicago and the Washington, D.C. area; through
our full-color catalog; and on Levenger.com. Our design center and headquarters
are located in Delray Beach, Florida, and our distribution center and customer
service department are in Memphis.
Our 100% Guarantee
We promise to deliver quality and value in every Levenger
product. If you’re not completely satisfied with any product for any reason,
please let us know, and we’ll make it right.
The Levenger Experience
“Beauty from order springs,” wrote William King. When we can
bring order to your bookshelves, your files, your briefcase, your notes, we
hope it frees you to read, think, create and do.
There’s a new meaning of luxury, and that is the luxury of
time. We design our products to give you more time to pursue your professions
and your interests, and to make those pursuits more rewarding. (Of course, it
helps that much of what we offer is made of rich, warm wood and sumptuous,
ahhh-some leather.) Alexis de Tocqueville, an uncannily astute observer of Americans,
figured out more than 175 years ago that Americans desired beauty but demanded
usefulness. We agree. It’s another brand of luxury that you’ll find at
Levenger: the luxury of design that works.
We’re sticklers for quality, and we appreciate that our
customers are, too. It means being persnickety about the small stuff—the finish
of a corner seam on a briefcase, the placement of a pen loop, the roll of a
caster. From such details come the kinds of products that last months, years, a
lifetime…maybe even more. One of the most rewarding customer comments we’ve
heard: “Thanks for making intelligent products. We count on you.”
We offer Professional & Corporate services. It’s
Levenger with your logo, and Levenger in large measure (we offer quantity discounts).
We’re also a publisher of books under our Levenger Press imprint. We’re a
micropublisher, and love that we can design the kinds of books that give a
quiet rush of pleasure when you hold them in your hand.
Steve and Lori Leveen
Levenger was established in 1987 through the joint vision of
Steve and Lori Granger Leveen. The name “Levenger” was derived from their
surnames, Leveen and Granger.
Before starting Levenger with Lori in 1987, Steve worked in
marketing for a software firm in Boston, as a survey researcher for a
consulting company in Washington, D.C., and as a journalist for McGraw-Hill in
New York City.
Steve’s articles on the human side of technology have
appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor and on The Huffington Post. He holds
a B.A. in Biology from the University of California, San Diego, and master’s
and doctoral degrees in Sociology from Cornell University.
Steve serves on the board of the National Book Awards
Foundation and is a member of the Chief Executives Organization. He is the
author of The Little Guide to Your
Well-Read Life (Levenger Press, 2005) and conducts workshops on the topic
for various organizations. Visit him online at blog.wellreadlife.com.
Prior to starting Levenger, Lori worked in marketing and in
government relations with IBM. She worked as an analyst for a consulting
company in Washington, D.C. and in insurance in New York City.
Lori graduated from Vassar College with honors in history
and holds a master’s in international business from Georgetown University.
Lori and Steve live with their two sons and their German
shorthair pointer, LaDi, in Delray Beach, Florida.
