Landscape Forms, North America's leading designer and manufacturer of high-design site furniture, lighting, structures and accessories, announces an expansion to Take-Out®, the award-winning family of lightweight, reconfigurable connected seating designed by Rodrigo Torres. The additions build on Take-Out's hallmark simplicity, versatility and human-centered design, introducing new ways for people to gather outdoors across schools, corporate campuses, public spaces and hospitality settings.

The expanded offering includes a new tall with an integrated footrest, a mini double ergonomically scaled for K-5 education environments, and a distinctive wedge double that introduces fresh geometries and more interpersonal postures. The expansion also incorporates color-matched connector brackets to lock abutting units into stable configurations and a semi-circular umbrella hole option that creates a full standard umbrella opening when two units are placed face-to-face.

"Take-Out has always been about making it easy for people to come together outside-to pick it up, move it around and create a space that fits the moment," says Ryan Heiser, Director of Design at Landscape Forms. "These new pieces build on that spirit and open up even more ways to connect. The wedge brings people into more natural, conversational postures while introducing even more interesting geometric possibilities in configuration. And the mini double is a special milestone for us. It's the first piece we've designed specifically for K-5 learning environments, and it reflects how much we value schools and the role outdoor spaces play in learning and community. We're excited to help create those welcoming outdoor environments where kids can gather, explore and grow."

Designer Rodrigo Torres emphasizes the expansion's focus on shaping connection through form. "Design can gently guide relationships. With the wedge piece, a small break in the shape invites two people who might normally face the street to also turn toward one another," says Torres. "You can enjoy what's happening around you and still engage directly with the person beside you. Take-Out is about reclaiming the outdoors-helping people socialize, repopulate public space and feel part of the city again. And bringing this family to young children with the mini version is charming and poetic. It invites them to play, learn and connect outside, to become more conscious of their environment in a simple, joyful way."

The expanded Take-Out line now spans singles, doubles, triples and wheelchair-accessible left and right triples, alongside the new tall, mini and wedge units. Each maintains Take-Out's light weight, approachable character and wide-ranging configurability, enabling designers to create linear or staggered runs, communal picnic settings, edge- or sidewalk-oriented seating, and now radial arrangements, faceted arcs, and enclosed hexagons among a myriad of other configuration possibilities. When specified with the new umbrella-hole tops and connector brackets, face-to-face configurations can be secured as one unit and accommodate a standard umbrella.

Take-Out continues to pair minimalist silhouettes with user comfort and long-term durability. Gently curved edges eliminate pressure points and offer a warm, welcoming gesture. Craft manufactured in the USA, Take-Out's construction includes sheet metal tops and extruded aluminum verticals, finished with a durable polyester powdercoat and equipped with nylon glides that support easy repositioning.

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À propos de Landscape Forms

Landscape Forms est le chef de file de l'industrie en matière de collections intégrées de mobilier extérieur, de structures, d'accessoires et d'éclairage à DEL hauts de gamme. Depuis sa fondation en 1969, Landscape Forms s'est taillé une réputation pour son excellent design, ses produits de grande qualité et son service exceptionnel. Basé à Kalamazoo, dans le Michigan, le groupe de marques compte Loll Designs, situé à Duluth, dans le Minnesota, Summit Furniture, à Monterey, en Californie, et Kornegay Design, à Phoenix, dans l’Arizona. La société a des représentants commerciaux en Amérique du Nord, en Amérique du Sud, au Royaume-Uni, à Monaco, en Australie, aux Émirats arabes unis et en Asie. Landscape Forms collabore avec des designers industriels et des sociétés de conseil, des architectes paysagistes et des architectes de renom afin de créer et de concevoir des collections intégrées de produits qui répondent aux besoins émergents et qui contribuent à créer un espace unique. De plus, l'entreprise a établi des partenariats internationaux en marketing avec certaines entreprises qui partagent son engagement envers le design. Landscape Forms compte sur une base de produits partout dans le monde. Les clients comprennent des municipalités, des établissements hôteliers, des résidences, des centres de transit, des entreprises, des universités et des campus de soins de santé, ainsi que des marques connues telles que Harvard University, Linked In, New York Central Park Conservancy, Bryant Park, Google, Coca Cola, Oculus, U.S. Tennis Association (USTA), Nike, National Museum of African American History (Washington, D.C.), Barclays Center, Adidas, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Microsoft et Uber. Landscape Forms a été désignée comme l’un des meilleurs lieux de travail dans le secteur de la fabrication et de la production pour 2020, 2021, 2022 et 2023 par le magazine Fortune, fabricant de l’année dans le Michigan pour 2020 par la Michigan Manufacturers Association et par 269 Magazine comme l’un des meilleurs lieux de travail du sud-ouest du Michigan.

Qui est Rodrigo Torres

As a graduate student at the prestigious Domus Academy in Milan, Italy, Rodrigo Torres discovered a connection between his Latin American cultural and modernist design influences and the school's emphasis on design as storytelling. Torres' diverse portfolio of products, from Landscape Forms' Torres lights to smart faucets, furniture, pencil sharpeners, and toys, reflects a design imprint that marries the whimsical with the rational. The honest, sleek aesthetic of Torres' products pays tribute to another great influence in his life, Italian designer Stefano Giovannoni, with whom he studied and worked. Design by Rodrigo Torres was founded in 2004, and while Torres works with clients around the world, his studio remains in his native Colombia. Il a collaboré à plusieurs designs récompensés avec des entreprises comme Alessi, Poliform, Oras, Cassina IXC, Nike, Microsoft, Domodinamica et Potocco. In 2016, Torres received the Red Dot Award for Il Bagno Alessi SENSE smart faucets by Oras and the Lapiz de Acero design award in 2005, 2008, and 2016. Torres' work has been recognized in publications and exhibitions in Europe, Asia, and the U.S., and his design influence is expanding through his role as a visiting professor and project leader in Domus Academy's Product and Interactive Design Program and as a visiting professor at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Turin.