Landscape Forms, North America’s leading designer and manufacturer of premium site furniture, structure, lighting, and accessories, has announced the launch of the 21 Lounge Chair, a new addition to its celebrated 21 line created in collaboration with Grand Rapids-based design studio, Modello USA. 

Building on the success of the original 21 Chair, the 21 Lounge Chair offers a new level of outdoor comfort and style, designed to invite relaxation while maintaining the modern elegance and versatile styling for which the line is known. Named for the roomy, 21”-wide seat pan, the 21 Lounge Chair embodies the line’s “designed for anywhere and anyone” ethos, comfortably welcoming a wide range of statures and postures in myriad outdoor spaces and social public settings. 

“A lounge chair is just a natural fit for the 21 line,” says Landscape Forms Director of Design, Ryan Heiser. “The original 21 Chair is loved for being spacious, more relaxed than a classic dining chair, and more welcoming of different postures. The 21 Lounge Chair leans even further into this idea — canting back the same seat pan design, taking it lower to the ground, and truly embracing relaxation outdoors.”

The 21 Lounge Chair joins its sibling in its elevated simplicity and honest approach to materials, durably crafted from steel tubing and die-cast aluminum slats for the seat and back. With a sense of subtle refinement — evident in its softly chamfered edges, welcoming curves, and angled arms that enhance comfort in multiple sitting positions — the 21 Lounge Chair strikes a perfect balance between traditional site furnishing design and modern craft manufacturing quality and precision. 

“What’s great about the 21 Lounge Chair is that it plays really well between the traditional and the modern,” explains Landscape Forms Chief Innovation Officer, Kirt Martin. “The silhouette is familiar yet with this exacting, modern precision — especially in details like the die cast panels on the seat and back. This allows it to work with such a wide range of tables, in such a wide range of environments, and never really look out of place.”

With a design that effortlessly bridges the gaps between casual comfort, public space brawn, and elevated aesthetics, the 21 Lounge Chair is poised to become a favorite for outdoor settings that demand functionality, durability and style. Despite their generous size, 21 Lounge Chairs are space-conscious in their ability to stack up to four chairs high. They are finished in a variety of artful colors with Landscape Forms’ proprietary Pangard II® HAPS, VOC, and lead-free polyester powdercoat that resists chipping, peeling, and fading. While 21 Lounge Chairs are offered standard in a single color, custom color combinations can be specified to help create a unique sense of place and reinforce the identity of branded environments. 

Learn more about the 21 Lounge Chair.

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 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. We’ve been named one of the Best Workplaces in Manufacturing & Production for 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 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.

About Modello USA

Located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Modello USA specializes in the design of ergonomic seating. They are a hands-on design studio, beginning each project with pen-and-paper sketches that then begin to evolve with shadow and color. Full-scale and fully functional prototypes follow, a process that employs the studio’s unique and rounded skill set—from design, to engineering, to manufacturing. Prototype iterations refine the design and serve as the master model for creating the digitized images from which final products emerge. Modello USA brings an extensive knowledge of material properties and manufacturing processes, applying those fundamental building blocks early and expertly in development.