1 STUDIO 431 US Open QUEENS, NY Landscape Forms Elements: Custom Umpire Stand, Custom Player’s Bench, Custom Line Judge Chair, Custom Cameramen’s Bench Design Partners: Michael Graves Architecture & Design Team Members: USTA When Michael Graves Architecture & Design (MGA&D) took on the high-visibility project of redesigning courtscape furniture for the 2018 US Open, the team knew the pressure was on. “The US Open is the grandest of the Grand Slams,” says Donald Strum, principal and lead designer on the project. “It is a premium brand and celebrity-filled event. The furniture had to deliver on that brand experience.” The new furniture was part of a rebranding of the USTA coordinated with the celebration of the US Open’s 50th anniversary and, for two weeks, all eyes wo

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