From the Stands to the Sunset Deck: Bend Goods at BMO Stadium

By Gaurav Nanda, Bend Goods Studio, Los Angeles

BMO Stadium holds 22,000 people on match day. It is home to LAFC and Angel City FC, built at a 34 degree slope that makes it one of the steepest stadiums in Major League Soccer, and it has hosted CONCACAF Champions Cup matches and the MLS All-Star Game. It is, by any measure, a serious piece of sports architecture.

It is also, on the Sunset Deck above the supporters section, home to Bend Goods Lucy Bar Stools and a custom mosaic-top bar table in teal, white, and coral.

The Sunset Deck

The Sunset Deck is BMO Stadium's open-air hospitality space, built to take advantage of what the stadium's own architects clearly understood: Los Angeles weather is not a constraint to design around, it is a material to design with. The deck holds up to 350 guests and looks directly out over the pitch, the supporters section, and the downtown Los Angeles skyline beyond.

That view is doing a lot of the work in any photograph taken up there. The furniture had to hold its own against it.

Lucy Bar Stools in teal, coral, and white line the custom tile-top tables, the same wire silhouette that has shown up in restaurants, museums, and now one of the most architecturally distinct stadiums in American soccer. The color story was built to match the energy of a match day crowd without competing with the actual product on the field below.

Why Wire Works at Stadium Scale

A stadium hospitality deck is a specific kind of test for furniture. It needs to survive direct sun, wind off the open roof structure, and the kind of daily high-volume use that only a 22,000 seat venue can generate. It also needs to photograph well, because every match day produces hundreds of phone photos from that exact spot, with that exact skyline behind it.

The Lucy Bar Stool was built for precisely this kind of environment. BIFMA certified, powder coated for outdoor durability, light enough to reconfigure between events and solid enough to hold up under a full match day rotation. The wire structure keeps the deck feeling open rather than cluttered, which matters in a space where the view is the actual point.

The custom mosaic tile tabletops add a layer of pattern and color that ties the furniture to the supporters section below, where color and identity are everything in soccer culture. The chairs do not try to out-shout that energy. They sit inside it.

A Stadium Built for This Climate

BMO Stadium was the first open-air stadium built in Los Angeles in more than thirty years when it opened in 2018. That decision, to build without a roof in a city where the weather rarely punishes you for it, is the same logic that runs through every outdoor specification Bend Goods makes. The furniture exists because the climate allows it, and the climate is part of the design brief whether anyone states it explicitly or not.

The Sunset Deck is the clearest expression of that idea inside the stadium. An outdoor lounge, hundreds of feet above the pitch, designed entirely around the assumption that Los Angeles light and Los Angeles air are part of the experience, not something to be sealed out.

Explore the Lucy Bar Stool and the full seating collection at bendgoods.com. Trade and venue specifications available through the Bend Goods trade program.