DFW Auto Club
09-23-2009, 05:10 PM
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/09/metro40_furniture.jpg (http://www.autoblog.com/gallery/metro-40-by-bmw-desingworksusa-and-landscape-forms/)
BMW street furniture - Click above for high-res image gallery
BMW's DesignworksUSA isn't new to the furniture game, but instead of having to take a plane or buy a yacht to sample the creative firm's wares, all you need to do is... take a bus. After two years of consultations with Landscape Forms, a company specializing in outdoor site furniture, Designworks created a 7-piece selection of furniture for public transport spaces called "metro 40."
The seven pieces are broken down into categories: connect, rest, ride, collect, hi glo, lo glo, and show. Together, they cover everything you'd generally need to do at a bus stop: sit down, get under cover, lock up a bike, throw things away, and see things.
The point of the pieces is to enhance "the overall perception of inner cities with high traffic density and to convey a personal atmosphere to these particular areas." Not hard to do when the furniture outside is nicer than the furniture in your own house. But if we can make a suggestion: since it's public transport, where's the bar? You can read about metro 40 in the press release after the jump and check out the goods in the high-res gallery of photos below.
[Source: BMW]
Continue reading Finally, a good reason to take the bus: BMW street furniture (http://www.autoblog.com/2009/09/23/finally-a-good-reason-to-take-the-bus-bmw-street-furniture/)
Finally, a good reason to take the bus: BMW street furniture (http://www.autoblog.com/2009/09/23/finally-a-good-reason-to-take-the-bus-bmw-street-furniture/) originally appeared on Autoblog (http://www.autoblog.com) on Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
Permalink (http://www.autoblog.com/2009/09/23/finally-a-good-reason-to-take-the-bus-bmw-street-furniture/) | Email this (http://www.autoblog.com/forward/19171678/) | Comments (http://www.autoblog.com/2009/09/23/finally-a-good-reason-to-take-the-bus-bmw-street-furniture/#comments)http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/5oBdBBz8TQX_hxuvQNcWfPFpvY0/0/di (http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/5oBdBBz8TQX_hxuvQNcWfPFpvY0/0/da)
http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/5oBdBBz8TQX_hxuvQNcWfPFpvY0/1/di (http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/5oBdBBz8TQX_hxuvQNcWfPFpvY0/1/da)
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=IVdfH3kQQmI:Ll4XT5IQ4mo:wF9xT3WuBAs (http://feeds.autoblog.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=IVdfH3kQQmI:Ll4XT5IQ4mo:wF9xT3WuBAs) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=IVdfH3kQQmI:Ll4XT5IQ4mo:V_sGLiPBpWU (http://feeds.autoblog.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=IVdfH3kQQmI:Ll4XT5IQ4mo:V_sGLiPBpWU)
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/IVdfH3kQQmI
More... (http://feeds.autoblog.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~3/IVdfH3kQQmI/)
BMW street furniture - Click above for high-res image gallery
BMW's DesignworksUSA isn't new to the furniture game, but instead of having to take a plane or buy a yacht to sample the creative firm's wares, all you need to do is... take a bus. After two years of consultations with Landscape Forms, a company specializing in outdoor site furniture, Designworks created a 7-piece selection of furniture for public transport spaces called "metro 40."
The seven pieces are broken down into categories: connect, rest, ride, collect, hi glo, lo glo, and show. Together, they cover everything you'd generally need to do at a bus stop: sit down, get under cover, lock up a bike, throw things away, and see things.
The point of the pieces is to enhance "the overall perception of inner cities with high traffic density and to convey a personal atmosphere to these particular areas." Not hard to do when the furniture outside is nicer than the furniture in your own house. But if we can make a suggestion: since it's public transport, where's the bar? You can read about metro 40 in the press release after the jump and check out the goods in the high-res gallery of photos below.
[Source: BMW]
Continue reading Finally, a good reason to take the bus: BMW street furniture (http://www.autoblog.com/2009/09/23/finally-a-good-reason-to-take-the-bus-bmw-street-furniture/)
Finally, a good reason to take the bus: BMW street furniture (http://www.autoblog.com/2009/09/23/finally-a-good-reason-to-take-the-bus-bmw-street-furniture/) originally appeared on Autoblog (http://www.autoblog.com) on Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
Permalink (http://www.autoblog.com/2009/09/23/finally-a-good-reason-to-take-the-bus-bmw-street-furniture/) | Email this (http://www.autoblog.com/forward/19171678/) | Comments (http://www.autoblog.com/2009/09/23/finally-a-good-reason-to-take-the-bus-bmw-street-furniture/#comments)http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/5oBdBBz8TQX_hxuvQNcWfPFpvY0/0/di (http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/5oBdBBz8TQX_hxuvQNcWfPFpvY0/0/da)
http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/5oBdBBz8TQX_hxuvQNcWfPFpvY0/1/di (http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/5oBdBBz8TQX_hxuvQNcWfPFpvY0/1/da)
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=IVdfH3kQQmI:Ll4XT5IQ4mo:wF9xT3WuBAs (http://feeds.autoblog.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=IVdfH3kQQmI:Ll4XT5IQ4mo:wF9xT3WuBAs) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=IVdfH3kQQmI:Ll4XT5IQ4mo:V_sGLiPBpWU (http://feeds.autoblog.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=IVdfH3kQQmI:Ll4XT5IQ4mo:V_sGLiPBpWU)
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/IVdfH3kQQmI
More... (http://feeds.autoblog.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~3/IVdfH3kQQmI/)