FRCH Names Two New Partners

Paul Lechleiter and James Lazzari, senior vp's at FRCH Design Worldwide (Cincinnati), have been named partners and placed on the firm's executive committee. Lechleiter heads FRCH's specialty retail/consumer brands studio and Lazzari heads its departments store studio. As members of the executive committee, the two new partners join ceo James Fitzgerald and coo James Tippmann.

Lechleiter joined FRCH in 1996. He had previously been a vp with Fitch Design (Columbus, Ohio), and before that had been a retail designer for Cole Martinez Curtis (Los Angeles) and for The May Co. in California. Lazzari, a register architect, has been with FRCH since 1984.