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Why Wishbone for landscape architects

One hundred and nine firms have written us into a specification. This is what they are checking when they do, and what we have set up to make it easy.

Wishbone Site Furnishings
·September 9, 2026·2 min read
109
landscape architecture and engineering firms
~50specifications from the single most active firm
736public products with a spec sheet

Most of the people who choose our furniture never buy it. They specify it. A landscape architect writes a product into a drawing set, a contractor prices it, a municipality pays for it. The person who made the decision is two steps removed from the invoice.

That reader needs different things from a website than a buyer does. Dimensions in both units. A downloadable spec sheet for the exact configuration, not a generic brochure. CAD and Revit. Finish options that can be named in a schedule. Mounting details that answer the surface-mount or in-ground question without a phone call.

What has changed on our side

Every one of our public products now generates a one-page spec sheet on demand, for the configuration on screen, with the finish and options ticked and a link back to that exact page. It prints on letter. It includes a QR code that opens the same configuration on a phone. That is what a specifier takes into a client meeting.

Products also render in every lumber and powder combination we offer, so a specifier can see the bench in the colour they are proposing rather than in the colour we photographed.

The questions we get most

Recycled content percentage, for LEED and municipal sustainability policies. Surface-mount versus in-ground. Whether the accessible table matches the standard one, and it does, because we build them as one family. Lead time relative to a construction schedule. Whether we can match a colour the city already uses.

From the archive

On site

Wishbone ft Wheelchair Accessible Rutherford Wide Body Memorial Bench in Smithers BC
Wishbone ft Wheelchair Accessible Rutherford Wide Body Memorial Bench in Smithers BC1 / 6
Wishbone Rutherford Bench on Perma pad in West Kelowna BC
Wishbone Rutherford Bench on Perma pad in West Kelowna BC2 / 6
WishboneRutherfordMemorialBenchinKelownaBC tap658
WishboneRutherfordMemorialBenchinKelownaBC tap6583 / 6
Wishbone Rutherford Bench Green Lumber Textured Black Frame on the Salmon Trail in Lumby BC Front View
Wishbone Rutherford Bench Green Lumber Textured Black Frame on the Salmon Trail in Lumby BC Front View4 / 6
Wishbone Rutherford Wide Body Benches at Alexis Park in Vernon BC
Wishbone Rutherford Wide Body Benches at Alexis Park in Vernon BC5 / 6
Wishbone Rutherford Memorial Bench in Kelowna BC
Wishbone Rutherford Memorial Bench in Kelowna BC6 / 6

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