About

Rivas is a name with rhythm in its blood. It began with my grandfather, Alphonso Rivas — a trumpet player, composer, and conductor known to many as Allan Reeves and His Trumpet and later on as The Allan Reeves Orchestra. His music lived somewhere between discipline and soul — each note carrying a kind of honesty that can’t be faked.

That rhythm still runs through what I do today. The name Rivas comes from the Spanish riba — meaning shore — a fitting origin for a life built by Lake Michigan, where the light shifts with the water and everything moves in quiet, deliberate time. It’s a place that teaches patience — the kind of calm that sits beneath creation.

That flow traces deeper roots, too. My grandfather carried Hopi blood, and through him, I’ve inherited a reverence for land, balance, and stillness — for listening as much as making. It’s in every photograph, every design, every early morning walk when the lake is still waking up.

And always by my side is Kona — my companion, my reminder to slow down and really see. He watches the sunrise like he’s part of it. There’s something pure in that — in the way he observes without needing to capture, just present and aware. He’s the “Ko.” in Rivas & Ko. — the quiet pulse behind it all.

This isn’t just a brand; it’s a continuation. A conversation between heritage and horizon. Between rhythm and rest. Between the life that shaped me and the one I’m still shaping.

Rivas & Ko. — by the shore, born of rhythm, rooted in legacy.