Landscape Forms

Landscape Forms, North America’s leading designer and manufacturer of high-design site furniture, structure, lighting and accessories, celebrates 50 product design awards received in 2024, including 38 wins and 12 finalists and honorable mentions from leading industry organizations and publications.

The year’s product design awards span the company’s extensive offering, honoring excellence, innovation and outstanding sustainability efforts in the design of outdoor site furnishings and lighting. Rising through the rigorous selection processes, four products and collections especially stood out and sparked inspiration in juries: the Northport Collection of lighting and site furnishings; the Plains & Pods™ complementary lines of seating, surfaces and planters; the Ashbery lighting family; and the Every Day Chair.

2024’s top winner, the Northport Collection earned a significant number of sought-after design awards including two Red Dot Awards, three Grands Prix Du Design Certifications, an Architizer A+ Product Award, and others. Created in collaboration with Robert A.M. Stern Architects (RAMSA), the Northport Collection spans the full breadth of site furnishings, streetscape elements and lighting solutions. A stand-out example of modern traditional design, Northport draws from significant design precedence while also embracing contemporary forms, materials and technologies to serve as an authentic bridge between traditional and modern architecture. Describing the collection’s design ethos, designer Daniel Lobitz, AIA, Partner at RAMSA, says: "The mission was to create a collection that fits into cities and towns whose architecture and infrastructure have grown over the course of many, many years. It had to feel relevant to today, but it also had to embody that spirit, that sense of place, that sense of history.”

Second most awarded in 2024, Plains & Pods’ recognitions included an Architectural Products Product Innovation Award, Architectural Record’s Product of the Year, a GOOD DESIGN Award, and others. Created in collaboration with London-based design studio Industrial Facility, Plains & Pods are two complementary solutions that embrace the potential of non-prescriptive design to elevate, humanize and personalize public outdoor space. Designed to either work independently or together in concert, Plains & Pods are united around the concept of layering — both in the physical sense and in the experiential sense — to create well-rounded, multi-dimensional settings that inspire design creativity and prioritize the freedom and expression of their users. Commenting on what sets Plains & Pods apart, designer and co-founder of Industrial Facility, Sam Hecht, describes: "Much like a blank piece of paper or a very simple rectangular table, when you see Plains & Pods, what you’re seeing is potential. And when you see something as potential, it means you can impart yourself on it. There’s no code to it — it’s a setting where life is played out.”

Also designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects in conjunction with internationally recognized lighting design firm Fisher Marantz Stone, the Ashbery lighting family celebrated several awards including a Green GOOD DESIGN Award, Architecture MasterPrize’s Winner in Outdoor Products, a Grands Prix Du Design Gold Certification, and others. The newly expanded capabilities of Ashbery celebrated in 2024 add even further performance and versatility to the timeless, modern traditional area light. Expanding the offering at the pedestrian scale is the 100 series Ashbery — a new, smaller luminaire head for use at 8-10’ lens heights, featuring Landscape Forms' unique visual comfort light engine tailored for more intimate outdoor environments. Capabilities at 12-16’ lens heights are further expanded with the addition of a high output light engine for the 300 series, enabling Ashbery to better serve environments beyond the purely pedestrian — parking lots, streetscapes, transit and other environments with a wide range of illumination requirements and visual experience expectations.

Winner of the Architecture MasterPrize Best of Best, a Design MasterPrize Award, and a SPARK Award among others, the simplicity, elegance and versatility of the Every Day Chair also resonated with juries in 2024. Designed by the Landscape Forms team, the Every Day Chair embodies a casual demeanor combined with the adaptability and durability to excel in a wide range of outdoor dining, gathering and multi-purpose event settings. It is a spiritual relative of the vintage camp and sling outdoor chairs whose utilitarian designs have become symbols of outdoor recreation and connecting with nature. Bringing this philosophy into the modern era, the Every Day Chair combines precisely bent wire and steel strapping to create a solution that’s stackable, refined, visually lighter, and more welcoming in its gentle curves and softened edges.

See the full list of all Landscape Forms’ awards received in 2024.

Landscape Forms, North America’s leading designer and manufacturer of high-design lighting, site furniture, structure, and accessories, proudly unveils Moment, a scalable and adaptable lighting line designed in collaboration with the celebrated design team at Yonoh Creative Studios, based in Valencia, Spain.

“This was our first outdoor lighting project and we were thrilled to partner with the experienced designers and engineers at Landscape Forms to bring it to life,” says Alex Selma, Yonoh founder and one of the lead designers on the project. “Our goal at the outset was to create an impressively modern product that would be at home in almost any setting, and I think we achieved that.”

Rooted in the elemental interplay of straight lines, perfect circles, and conical shapes, the minimalist profile of Moment finds expression in sculptural luminaires that are both artful and practical, presenting a streamlined and unadorned silhouette that effortlessly complements any public-space environment.

“Moment is a testament to the power of restraint in design,” says Landscape Forms President of Lighting Jordan Agustin. “Its reliance on basic geometries and simple forms helps to bring a sense of order and streamlined symmetry to outdoor settings, whether illuminating a main street, a bustling plaza, or lighting a path through a wooded park.”

Moment’s versatility is also expressed in the expansive range of available options. The line’s modern aesthetic carries through an array of pole height and mounting configurations, including single, paired, or staggered multiples for area and accent lighting, as well as catenary and wall-mounted designs. Beneath the sleek exterior, Moment incorporates the perfect balance of performance and visual experience options, including a wide selection of roadway and accent distribution types, up to 10,000lm delivered, a deep-set light engine, and an optional hexcell louvre that ensure precise illumination with minimal glare.

“Landscape Forms is always looking for partners that can bring a diverse perspective to our portfolio, and offer a fresh and vibrant design approach,” says Landscape Forms Director of Design Ryan Heiser. “Yonoh’s understanding of silhouette, proportion and their consideration of elegant details was a perfect fit for what we wanted to achieve.”

In adhering to a minimalist mindset, special care was taken in removing unnecessary ornament from the design. Fasteners and hardware were tightly integrated and contained in the housing, bringing a remarkable clarity and cohesiveness to every aspect of the design. “We pride ourselves on listening to the lighting community and landscape designers,” adds Ryan. “This focus on the balance of aesthetic simplicity and performance was high on the list.”

“The Moment line is designed to complement—not compete with—the environments they illuminate,” Jordan concludes. “The design elevates the spaces they occupy, and in the process creates something better, vibrant spaces made to be lived in, experienced, and enjoyed.”

Landscape Forms, North America’s leading designer and manufacturer of high-design site furniture, structure, LED lighting and accessories, introduces the Outline family of column lights, path lights and bollards.

A modern reinterpretation of the familiar column luminaire, Outline is designed to bring greater visual interest, performance and more versatility to urban environments. Serving as performance lights, wayfinding elements or architectural details, Outline luminaires communicate refinement and elegance with the robustness required for high-profile public space.

"Outline leans in to one of the many things that makes Landscape Forms unique, which is our craft-based approach to manufacturing,” says Landscape Forms President of Lighting, Jordan Agustin. "There are other solutions that can provide quality illumination, but Outline's performance in combination with its exceptional design and manufacturing—its elegant curves, its seamless transitions between surfaces—is Landscape Forms on full display.”

Grouped into sculptural clusters of different heights, defining space throughout parks and public plazas, or lighting the way along pedestrian paths, Outline makes a modern and approachable statement in a robust, meticulously crafted, and public space-ready form factor. "Outline has notes of the original, familiar light column, but it brings our own modern twist,” describes Landscape Forms Director of Design, Ryan Heiser. “It’s clean, minimalist and rather inconspicuous from afar, but when you take notice and appreciate the craft in the details, it becomes really beautiful."

The family includes 12’ and 10' column lights, a 4’ path light and a 4’ unlit bollard. Each features three sculptural arms that emerge seamlessly from the element’s base. When lit, light is cast downward along the arms to create an alluring ground pattern and poetic interplay between illumination, shadow, object and surroundings. In the pedestrian-scale column lights, high angle glare is eliminated (G-0), enhancing the safety and visual experience of urban outdoor space. In the path light, directed optic design provides superior visibility and confidently extends the usability of outdoor space. Each Outline element Outline features a seamless transition between luminaire and ground plane, firmly anchored with no base cover or part lines.

"Outline is true to the Landscape Forms story,” continues Jordan Agustin. “It represents our focus on activating outdoor space within the context of urban settings, ensuring settings like plazas, parklets and downtown corridors—these places of respite in our busy lives—can be well lit in a human-focused, pedestrian-centric way."

Northport was designed in collaboration with Daniel Lobitz and Thomas Day of RAMSA | Robert A.M. Stern Architects, an urban architectural visionary whose influence is all over this city’s iconic skyline. This collection of innovative lighting solutions spans a wide range of scales, settings and design idioms. Northport to be released this fall.