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Landscape Forms partners with gifted design professionals to create outdoor
furniture and accessories that address form and function in unique and
intelligent ways. Our partners include architects, landscape architects,
industrial designers, interior designers and a leading multidisciplinary design
firm. The products of our collaboration are celebrated for their beauty, quality
and performance.
| Kirt
Martin
Vice President of Design and Marketing |
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Prior to joining Landscape
Forms, Mr. Martin directed all design activities at Turnstone, a division of
Steelcase. Prior to Turnstone, he served as senior designer for Steelcase Wood
furniture. Born in Grand Rapids, Kirt earned a bachelor of fine arts degree in
industrial design from Kendall College of Art and Design. He also studied
industrial design and design history at the Royal College of Art in London,
England. Kirt is a member of IDSA (Industrial Designers Society of America).
Kirt was a recipient of the 2002 Recent Graduate Achievement Award, which honors
a Ferris University/ Kendall College grad that has made a significant
achievement or contribution in his or her field. His work has also garnered a
2001 IDEA Award, multiple Good Design Awards and NeoCon Awards including Best of
NeoCon Silver award in 2007 for Tour™ workspace. Best of NeoCon Gold Award 2009
Campfire. Best of NeoCon Gold Award Bivi 2011. Interior Design 2011 Best of Year
Award & Spark 2011 award. Kirt's work has been featured in numerous
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| Arno Yurk,
IDSA |
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was Vice President of Design at
Landscape Forms for 26 years. He joined the company in 1986, bringing fifteen
years of experience as a practicing architect to his role as expert on the
unique requirements of site furniture and its function in outdoor space. Arno
collaborates with and guides design partners from a variety of professional
backgrounds in designing products that enhance outdoor spaces and support
Landscape Forms aesthetic and quality standards.
Arno says: "Simple elegance allows our products to integrate in a very
cooperative, transparent manner with our customer's vision of the space they are
creating. It is a thrill for me to be able to collaborate with so many creative
people both within and outside the organization and to grow those relationships
over time."
Arno holds several design patents and is the recipient of the IDEA Bronze Award
for
Carousel.
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| BMW Group
DesignworksUSA |
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provides design strategy,
research, design development, sustainability consulting, brand communications,
3D modeling, and color, materials, and finish to many of the world’s great
brands. In addition to being the creative partner to BMW Group, which includes
BMW, MINI and Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, additional DesignworksUSA clients include
Boeing Business Jets, HEAD, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, Saeco, and Sony. The
company was founded in 1972 by Charles W. Pelly in Malibu, California, and
acquired by BMW Group in 1995. Since December 2009, President Laurenz Schaffer
has led DesignworksUSA’s strategy and operations, which includes studios in Los
Angeles, Munich, and Singapore. With global resources and clients across a
spectrum of forward-thinking industries, DesignworksUSA has an unparalleled
understanding of consumers and the world of design that surrounds them, both
today and many years into the future. In 2010, Fast Company magazine ranked
DesignworksUSA as the world’s “#1 Most Innovative Company in Design,” and among
the “Most Innovative Companies for 2010.”
www.designworksusa.com.
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| Brian
Kane |
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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.
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| Fredrick
Reeder |
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Rick Reeder, AIA, LEED AP, is
the accomplished architect, product designer, and founder of designStream, his
professional practice based in the Boston, MA, area.
He has strong appreciation for the tangible and intangible value of beauty and
his unique perspective on design drew the attention of the Museum of Modern Art,
which exhibited some of his work.
Architecture is Rick's main focus - commercial, institutional, and residential -
and his projects are recognized for distinctiveness, contextual fit, and
environmental responsiveness.
Paladin and
Sentinel bollards feature totally twenty-first century design to compliment
contemporary landscapes and architecture while providing pathway demarcation.
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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.
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| Gustafson
Guthrie Nichol Ltd. |
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Gustafson Guthrie Nichol,
founded in Seattle in 1999 by partners Kathryn Gustafson, Jennifer Guthrie, and
Shannon Nichol, works throughout the Americas and Asia. Designers in the firm
have professional backgrounds in landscape, architecture, engineering, graphics,
ecology, and other sciences. The three partners bring their own distinctive
sensibilities to every design project.
The designs of Gustafson Guthrie Nichol express the sculptural qualities of
contextual landscape. GGN offers special experience in designing high-use
landscapes in complex, urban contexts. On rooftops, between buildings, or
suspended in the air, GGN's landscapes are widely varied but share qualities as
healthy settings for diverse and ever-changing activities. The firm's
award-winning projects include Lurie Garden, part of Chicago's Millennium Park,
which brings the ecology of Chicago's native prairie into a dense downtown
neighborhood. GGN's designs for the
Maggie bench and
Charlie table were originally conceived for open spaces within Millennium
Park.
GGN's recent project awards include multiple ASLA National Design Excellence
Awards, Tucker Architectural Awards, and AIA/ASLA Honor and Merit awards for
Design. In 2011, GGN was the recipient of the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt,
National Design Award for Landscape Architecture. |
| John
Rizzi |
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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.
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| Kipp
Stweart |
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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.
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| Larry
Kornegay |
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Larry Kornegay has been a
working artist for forty years. He has combined his fine arts background and
keen design skills into a multi-faceted design career while continuing his work
as a sculptor.
In 1998 Kornegay’s knowledge and love of concrete, design, landscape, and
sculpture came together when he founded a company to produce a refined product
line of landscape containers. Kornegay Design, LLC, based in Phoenix, Arizona
has contributed an unsurpassed level of design, sophistication, and standard of
craftsmanship to pre-cast concrete container design and production.
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| Margaret
McCurry |
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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.
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| Robert
Chipman, ASLA |
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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.
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In the tradition of architects
from Frank Lloyd Wright to Alvar Aalto, Robert A.M. Stern Designs offers
products grounded in tradition and informed by the spirit of innovation,
produced and marketed by leading manufacturer partners with outstanding
reputations for quality, performance and service. In addition to
Concord site furniture for Landscape Forms, the collection currently
includes carpets for Bentley Prince Street, furniture for David Edward, tile for
Crossville, lighting for Lightolier, architectural glass for Bendheim, garden
ornaments for Haddonstone, architectural hardware for SA Baxter and doors for
Lualdi. Robert A.M. Stern Designs is a wholly owned subsidiary of industry
leader Robert A.M. Stern Architects, LLP. For more information please visit
www.ramscollection.com.
Concord reflects Robert A.M. Stern's commitment to design that is informed
by the past and contemporary in spirit. The collection and its elements embrace
progress and new technologies yet are rooted in American history and out
national view of the landscape as a place of respite and pleasure. Their 'modern
traditionalism' expands Landscape Forms' vocabulary of design.
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| Santa &
Cole |
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The spectacles tell the story,
Santa & Cole is a company with vision and a strong point of view. Founded in
1985, the Spanish National Design Award winner acts as editor and mediator to
bring to market exceptional furniture, objects and writing on design. Now
Landscape Forms proudly offers
Santa & Cole Urban Elements in North America. These distinctive designs
share the Landscape Forms vocabulary but have a vernacular all their own.
Minimal, elegant in their simplicity and beautifully resolved, they introduce an
international spirit to Landscape Forms' collection of outdoor furniture for
public spaces.
Landscape Forms is the exclusive distributor of the Santa & Cole Urban Elements
collection in the U.S. and Canada.
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| Thomas
Balsley, FASLA |
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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.
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