by Brianna Crandall — July 29, 2013—High-design site furniture provider Landscape Forms has just introduced the Parallel 42 bench system, available to markets worldwide. Following the company’s philosophy that “the power of design has the ability to elevate public spaces and create a sense of place,” Parallel 42 is “beautifully and thoughtfully designed,” with a high sustainability profile, says Landscape Forms.
Parallel 42 is a modular wood bench system created from reclaimed wood and metal that provides handsome seating, defines borders, and frames spaces around complementary site elements. Lengths of hardwood in parallel lines wrap steel supports to create elegantly simple building blocks for activating social space.
Three pieces—a left hand, right hand, and wedge—are modules that can be placed singly or in any combination to create borders, resting places or enclaves, explains the company. The modules can be used to form simple or complex configurations by distributing them, clustering them, lining them up, or branching them out.
Designed by Landscape Forms designer Brian Revoir, Parallel 42 makes use of lengths of jarrah, a eucalyptus-like hardwood, reclaimed from the manufacture of several other popular Landscape Forms designs.
Founded in 1969, Landscape Forms is an industry leader in integrated collections of high-design site furniture and advanced LED lighting. The company’s U.S. headquarters and manufacturing facility is located in Kalamazoo, Michigan, with sales offices around the world. Landscape Forms collaborates with renowned industrial designers and consultancies, landscape architects, and architects to design and develop integrated collections of products that address emerging needs and help create a sense of place.
Landscape Forms has an installed base of products around the world. Clients include municipalities; transit centers; corporate, college and healthcare campuses; and brand leaders such as Boeing, Cisco Systems, Disney, Sprint, American Airlines, Herman Miller and Nike. For more information, see the Landscape Forms ad on FMLink.
