SFA Tours San Francisco

Photo: Joonyeop Baek on Unsplash.

Street Furniture Australia visited the United States, with international sales representative Juanita Marlowe touring Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Part one – SFA in LA: First Stop, Hollywood.


Golden Gate Bridge lookout.

After checking in with our US office and phone centre, Juanita began a series of meetings with San Francisco architects and landscape architects, to show #BackyardExperiment and the new Build Aria augmented reality app.

This included lunch-and-learn sessions with SWA Group in the city and Sausalito offices, breakfast with HOK and morning tea at WRT.

Juanita was also pleased to meet with Gensler and James Corner Field Operations.


Watching the #BackyardExperiment film at SWA, Sausalito.


Juanita in action.


The HOK office.

A trip to Street Furniture Australia’s first project in San Francisco, Mission Dolores Park, found the Classic Plaza seats, benches and tables still in great shape after three to five years in the public domain.


See the Mission Dolores project case study.


Sample boxes include castings, colour swatches and battens.

Sample packs were in high demand, and we are thrilled to now be included in company libraries in LA and San Francisco.

We will return to the US in April 2019. If you are interested in booking a presentation for your team, please email info@streetfurniture.com or enquire now.

Title image by Rich Niewiroski Jr, via Creative Commons.


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