Company Designers
designer . MATTHEW GILIO-TENAN
Matthew Gilio-Tenan is QCP’s first in house director of design. He is a highly experienced design and fabrication professional with a remarkable track record spanning over three decades. His expertise encompasses a diverse range of fields, including Construction, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Public Art, and Furniture Design. With an educational background that includes an undergraduate degree from OTIS College of Art and Design and a graduate degree in Architecture from UCLA, Matthew approaches his work with a comprehensive and holistic perspective.
Throughout his career, Matthew has been involved in numerous award-winning projects while holding pivotal roles at prestigious establishments such as Cliff Garten Studio and Clive Wilkinson Architects. As a seasoned designer, project manager, and fabrication specialist, he has showcased his remarkable abilities to deliver outstanding results. During his tenure at CGS, Matthew had the opportunity to collaborate with QCP, playing a crucial role in the development and successful market launch of several Agora Line products in partnership with Cliff Garten.
Driven by a profound passion for the environment and its relationship with the structures we create, Matthew is dedicated to producing designs that harmoniously coexist with their surroundings. He possesses a keen eye for the profound impact that 3D designs can have on elevating and transforming their environments. His expertise lies in leveraging innovative digital design techniques to manipulate materials effectively and deploying parametric modeling to streamline the design, fabrication, and installation processes.
Matthew's work delves into the impact of the built environment on people's emotions within a space, and how it can foster social interactions. In his role as Director of Design and Marketing, he brings a contemporary outlook to QCP's product line, capitalizing on his deep understanding of the ever-evolving world of digital techniques to explore new frontiers of design.
With Matthew Gilio-Tenan at the helm, QCP-Corp is confidently venturing into exciting new territories of design, propelled by a commitment to excellence and a steadfast dedication to creating spaces that resonate with both aesthetics and functionality.
designer . CLIFF GARTEN
Cliff Garten is an internationally recognized sculptor based in Venice, California. His multidisciplinary studio specializes in sculptural works that explore the interplay of light, urban space, architecture landscape and infrastructure. His pieces are sought after and celebrated for the way they define interaction and movement by creating energy between things, inspire interest in public activity and reframe a sense of place within public and private realms.
Garten is the recipient of two Individual Artist Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bush Foundation Fellowship for Individual Artists, the Bush Foundation Leadership Fellowship and the Jerome Foundation Travelling Artist Grant. His civic sculptures have consistently been named best in the nation by The Americans for the Arts Public Art Network and have been cited for design excellence by the American Society of Landscape Architects. Garten has served as a visiting critic at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, UCLA School of Architecture, Otis College of Art and Design and SCI-Arc. He holds a Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design and a Master of Landscape Architecture with Distinction from Harvard Graduate School of Design. Garten works and lives in Venice, California.
designer . JOHN COOK
John Cook has a wide-ranging professional design career that spans more than 35 years. As a California native, he spent a large part of his career at BMW Designworks, where he worked on many in-house projects for BMW and Mini. He also worked with multiple outside clients including Microsoft, Diamond Back Racing and Spinning.
John’s work in the fitness industry included a tenure at Star Trac and Spinning, where he served as VP of Industrial Design. He is the holder of numerous design patents and is the recipient of numerous international design awards including the IDEA, Good Design, ID magazine and a Red Dot Award. He has been working with QCP for years and is responsible for designing the Q line of products.
John’s passion for form was developed early in his career through hand-sculpting his design concepts using multiple mediums including foam and clay. He brings that knowledge of form to his designs through the use of digital automotive surfacing tools that work in concert with the 3D manufacturing technologies that are used by QCP. John currently lives in the beach community of Ventura, California, where he enjoys surfing, mountain biking and spending time with his wife and adult children.
designer . LISA CHESTNUT
Lisa Chestnut is an artist and landscape architecture professional who has been making her mark on the industry for the past 30 years. She draws inspiration from everyday objects and experiences to create timeless minimalist design that eschews trends and invites interaction from every user.
In addition to providing the creative vision behind QCP's exclusive Chestnut collection, Lisa is Project Director at Burton Landscape Architecture Studio in Solana Beach, California, where she is the go-to for site furnishing selections and specifying. Her landscape designs, aside from her work at Burton, can be found throughout California and have been featured in Sunset Magazine, Dwell and Better Homes and Gardens.
Lisa earned her degree in Landscape Architecture from Cal Poly Pomona. Born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Lisa was a longtime Southern California resident, most recently residing in Encinitas, California. She currently lives and works in Marfa, Texas with Benny and Jules, her chihuahua rescues.
designer . LINESPACE
Linespace partners Max Beach, Nick Groh, and Clint Woesner, started Linespace in 2003 with three common goals: 1. Do great work, 2. Help our clients succeed, 3. Enjoy what we do. Their goals are very much the same today. They are designers, educators, enthusiasts and advocates. Creative problem-solving is at their core.
Linespace’s partners and design staff thrive on opportunities to challenge conventions and pursue one-of-a-kind design solutions. They are inspired by their clients and their missions, and their projects. Every project presents a new challenge giving them the opportunity to learn, explore and realize new possibilities. And they wouldn’t have it any other way. Designing physical products for the markets they serve with graphic and brand design is a natural evolution. They see the need and the lack of unique options to fill it. Working with great partners to bring these products to life is integrated into their process.
designer . LARRY SNYDER
For more than 50 years, Larry Snyder was the driving force behind Canterbury Designs, excelling in both design and manufacturing. With an unwavering commitment to detail and innovation, he forged enduring partnerships with prominent outdoor attractions and leading landscape architects.
Success, to Larry, was measured by the returning customers who appreciated the enduring quality of his products, leaving a pleasing signature on community parks and urban streetscapes. These shared values made QCP's acquisition of Canterbury Designs' line of metal and wood products a natural fit.
His journey began in 1962 when he received a commission for an ornamental cast-iron clock. Impressed by the beauty of Larry’s work, designers and developers sought his talent for crafting site furniture in the ‘70s and ‘80s, initially for southern California's emerging shopping malls. He proceeded to develop a product line featuring classic designs while incorporating ongoing refinement with modern elements.
Larry, strategic in his approach, attracted numerous customers but deliberately expanded products and partnerships slowly to ensure high-quality designs. Earning a reputation for well-fabricated, long-lasting site furniture made from superior materials, we were proud to offer his designs.