Kalamazoo, MI – Landscape Forms, a designer, manufacturer and marketer of award-winning commercial outdoor furniture and accessories, adds a new bench designed by celebrated landscape architect and urban designer, Thomas Balsley, to its collection of award-winning furniture for outdoor spaces. Redline is a thoroughly contemporary bench that reflects New York-based Balsley’s enduring interest in urban public spaces. Redline captures the sense of movement and muscular energy of the urban environments for which it was designed.

     Redline achieves its form with a continuous sheet of perforated steel folded to create seat, back and a generous overhang at the top back that gives it a distinctive profile and makes it handsome from all angles. This bold contoured element was inspired by the use of materials in aircraft design. With Redline Balsley says, “I wanted to deconstruct the bench and approach it with a different structural attitude.” The result is a bench with minimal framing in which, as in the airplane, the shape provides the structure. Redline’s design language compliments the glass and metal of contemporary architecture, and it addresses the demand for sophisticated, strong, and easy to maintain furniture for urban spaces. The bench offers high-design, high-performance seating for transportation, public buildings and corporate and public plazas.

    The Redline bench is offered in 48” and 70” lengths with optional end and/or intermediate arms. Constructed entirely of folded and cut steel, it has recycled material content of 90% and is 100% recyclable. Redline is finished with Landscape Forms’ proprietary Pangard II® polyester powdercoat process, a durable finish that is U.V., chip and flake resistant. The finish contains no heavy metal, is HAPS-free and has extremely low VOCs. A selection of standard, optional and custom colors are available.

    Landscape Forms is based in Kalamazoo, MI and the 40 year old company’s product list includes exterior seating systems, benches, tables and chairs, umbrellas, wheelchair-accessible picnic tables, planters, litter receptacles and ash urns. Clients include such well-recognized companies as Boeing, Cisco Systems, Hewlett Packard, Harvard University, Disney, Chrysler, Mayo Clinic, Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo, Sprint, American Airlines, LaGuardia Airport, Microsoft, Nike, United States Tennis Association and many others. www.landscapeforms.com.