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‘Connecting People to the Landscape’ has become a popular point of contemporary discussion
KALAMAZOO - Landscape Forms, the preeminent designer and manufacturer of commercial site furniture in North America, will feature elements from its groundbreaking Metro40 collection at ASLA EXPO in Washington D.C., September 10-13. Metro40 is the first integrated collection of site furniture designed specifically for the urban streetscape and transit core. It was designed in collaboration with BMW Group DesignworksUSA, a leading international design consultancy with special expertise in products that support people in motion. Elements from the collection on exhibit will include the Rest bench, Collect litter, and Hi-Glo and Lo-Glo innovative LED lighting, developed with award-winning environmental lighting consultants Clanton & Associates. Hi-Glo, Lo-Glo lights employ leading edge LED technology and engineered optics to provide illumination for outdoor spaces that eliminates light pollution and provides warm white light in the 3700° range that avoids glare and supports the melatonin/serotonin cycle essential to human health.
On Saturday, September 11 at 11:00 am Landscape Forms President, Bill Main, will deliver a presentation entitled Site Furniture: Connecting People to the Landscape, based on the book Site Furnishings: A Complete Guide to the Planning, Selection and Use of Landscape Furniture and Amenities, co-authored with Gail Greet Hannah and published in 2009 by Wiley & Sons. Main will be joined in the illustrated presentation by three distinguished panel members: Jerome Barth, VP Business Affairs, Bryant Park Corp, 34th Street Partnership, Chelsea Improvement Company, who oversees operations at New York’s renowned Bryant Park; Thomas Balsely, FASLA, Principal, Thomas Balsley Associates, designer of numerous celebrated urban spaces; and Kathryn Gustafson, Director, Gustafson Guthrie Nichol (GGN) and Director, Gustafson Porter, an international leader in landscape architecture with projects in the US, Europe and Asia, among them the Lurie Garden at Chicago’s Millennium Park.
In addition to the Lurie Garden, GGN also designed the Maggie Bench and Charlie Table to furnish Millennium Park’s open spaces. Maggie and Charlie have been developed by Landscape Forms and will be introduced as part of the company’s standard product portfolio in the fall of 2010. The ongoing Landscape Forms GGN collaboration continues with the introduction of another group of exciting products for outdoor spaces scheduled for fall, 2011.
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