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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About Landscape Forms 

Landscape Forms is the industry leader in integrated collections of high-design site furniture, structures, accessories, and advanced LED lighting. Since its founding in 1969 Landscape Forms has earned a reputation for excellent design, high quality products and exceptional service. Headquartered in Kalamazoo, Michigan, the family of brands includes Loll Designs located in Duluth, Minnesota; Summit Furniture in Monterey, California; and Kornegay Design in Phoenix, Arizona. It has sales representatives throughout North America, South America, the United Kingdom, Monaco, Australia, 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. Additionally, the company has formed global marketing partnerships with select companies that share its commitment to design. Landscape Forms has an installed base of products around the world. Clients include municipalities, hospitality, residential, transit centers, corporate, college and health care campuses; and familiar brand leaders such as 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, and Uber. Landscape Forms has been named one of the Best Workplaces in Manufacturing & Production for 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023 by Fortune magazine, Michigan Manufacturer of the Year for 2020 by the Michigan Manufacturers Association, and by 269 Magazine as one of Southwest Michigan’s Wonderful Workplaces.

About 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. He has collaborated on award-winning designs with companies including Alessi, Poliform, Oras, Cassina IXC, Nike, Microsoft, Domodinamica, and 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.