by Brianna Crandall — December 5, 2014—High-design site furniture manufacturer Landscape Forms recently announced its partnership with TUUCI, the Miami-based designer and manufacturer of premier umbrellas and shade structures for high-profile outdoor environments. “It’s about working with people who are best in class,” explains Richard Heriford, president of Landscape Forms. “The goal with all of our partnerships is to bring great design to our customers and make it easy to acquire.”
The TUUCI brand has earned admiration among design professionals, says Landscape Forms, and now the company has partnered with TUUCI to create a Landscape Forms parasol collection available for direct purchase by designers and specifiers. Outdoor cafés and many of the world’s leading resorts, hotels and restaurants have reportedly selected TUUCI products because of their combination of beauty, durability and function.
“Like Landscape Forms, TUUCI is a design-founded and design-led company, which is unique,” says Kirt Martin, Landscape Forms vice president of design and marketing. “And like Landscape Forms, TUUCI is a brand leader. Every component of these parasols is carefully designed and crafted to provide shade in a very elegant way.”
Landscape Forms offers four distinctive TUUCI parasols as part of its Terrace Life category of lifestyle furniture by award-winning architects and landscape architects designed especially for terraces, rooftop gardens, patios and other select private and protected spaces.
The 10′ hexagonal parasol and 7 1/2′ square parasol have center poles for use with dining tables or as base-mounted elements throughout a site. A 10′ square cantilevered parasol is offered in single and dual versions, providing broad cover for creating shade and a sense of enclosure over dining and deep seating areas and public commons.
Created by a designer with decades of experience in boatbuilding and sailing, all are smart, stylish, and distinguished by innovative design and engineering, including a modular polymer hub that enables them to be serviced with easily replaceable parts. Made of marine-grade aluminum, polymers and solution-dyed Sunbrella fabric, the parasols are engineered to be robust and fluid in operation, and built to perform beautifully in any environment.
Founded in 1969, Landscape Forms offers integrated collections of high-design site furniture and advanced LED lighting, and has earned a reputation for excellent design, high quality products and exceptional service. The Landscape Forms U.S. headquarters and manufacturing facility is located in Kalamazoo, Michigan, with sales representatives throughout North America, the United Kingdom, Southern Europe, the United Arab Emirates and Asia.
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 familiar brand leaders such as Boeing, Cisco Systems, Disney, Sprint, American Airlines, Herman Miller and Nike. See also the Landscape Forms ad on FMLink.
