Thomas Balsley, FASLA Thomas Balsley is the founder and principal designer of Thomas Balsley Associates, a New York City-based, award-winning design firm specializing in urban landscape architecture.

“Capitol Plaza” in New York, a Thomas Balsley project, was discovered and admired by Landscape Forms, which then contacted Balsley to discuss a partnership in which he would design a series of products. The first of these products, NYNY, is best described as a stainless steel contemporary piece.

Robert Chipman, ASLA has been designing award-winning furniture for Landscape Forms since the early 1990’s. He is a Landscape Architect with a degree from Michigan State University, and currently practices land planning and landscape architecture in Austin, Texas.

Bobby finds it very exciting to participate in the design process with Landscape Forms, lending his input from a landscape architect’s point of view.

Awards include the IDSA Gold & Best of NeoCon for his design of the Solstice umbrella.

Founded in 1969 by design visionary Hartmut Esslinger, frog has an unparalleled history of successfully applying its world class talent to address the challenges of companies competing in rapidly changing marketplaces. frog has distinguished itself by developing a process of concurrent, multidisciplinary innovation, which rapidly delivers high impact products, services and brand enhancements.

frog has designed some of the market’s most significant products, including the Sony Trinitron, the Apple Computer, Lufthansa Airlines terminals, and Disney Cruise Lines. Headquartered in California’s Silicon Valley, frog has additional offices in San Francisco, New York, Austin, and Altensteig, Germany.

The collaboration of frog’s leading-edge product perspective and Landscape Forms’ site furnishings expertise brought forth a refreshing, free-spirited energy and vocabulary of form known as the 35 Collection.

Brian Kane established Kane Design Studio in San Francisco in 1989. Prior to that time, Brian was the designer for Metropolitan Furniture, later acquired by Steelcase.

Brian has designed many benches for Landscape Forms. His designs bring together graceful curves with comfort and strength for the demands of exterior seating.

Awards include the Apex Commendation for his design of the Hyde Park bench.

Margaret McCurry Architect Margaret McCurry is a Chicago native and graduate Loeb Fellow in Advanced Environmental Studies from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. In 1982 she merged her architecture and interiors practice to form Tigerman McCurry Architects, a firm committed to the creation of "a contemporary and authentically American architecture that is characteristic of its own time and place." Its distinguished body of work is the recipient of seven national AIA awards.

McCurry's work focuses on residential architecture and interiors. Her design of homes in the American heartland piqued her interest in landscape and in furniture for outdoor environments. Lakeside benches and receptacles reflect themes and idioms explored in the architecture.

In 1990 Margaret McCurry was inducted into the Interior Design Hall of Fame and in 2002 she was named "Designer of Distinction" by ASID.

John Rizzi Industrial designer John Rizzi learned from the masters at Sunar Hauserman where he helped develop designs by Michael Graves, Neils Diffrient, Richard Sapper and Massimo and Leila Vignelli. In 1985 he began his own practice. Over the past two decades he has designed bike accessories for Cannondale, and office furniture systems, lounge seating, tables and lighting for companies including Knoll, Corey Heibert, Allsteel, Vecta, and Steelcase.

Rizzi's design process is rigorous, analytic and self-critical. He cites as his motto Ralph Waldo Emerson's dictum: "What loses elegance, loses significance." The Parc Vue bench and receptacle are his first forays into outdoor furniture.

John Rizzi's work has won IDSA, APEX, Contract Magazine and NEOCON Best Products Gold and Silver awards.

Kipp Stewart’s furniture designs have been produced in the United States, Europe and Asia and are in use by major corporations, the United Nations, the Ford Foundation, the White House, hotels throughout the world and many residences. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, among others.

Awards include IDEA for his design of the Arcata bench.