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. 

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. The company is headquartered in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and our family of brands includes Loll Designs in Duluth, Minnesota; Summit Furniture in Monterey, California; and Kornegay Design located in Phoenix, Arizona.  It has sales representatives throughout North America, South America, the United Kingdom, 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, 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. We’ve been named one of the Best Workplaces in Manufacturing & Production for 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 & 2024 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.