Landscape Forms, North America’s leading designer and manufacturer of high-design site furniture, structure, lighting and accessories, is proud to introduce the Contour line designed by Ignacio Ciocchini, the company’s first collection of high-design, highly durable tables that can comply with existing Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Standards for Accessible Design. 

"With Contour, we challenged ourselves to design a public site-grade table that’s beautiful, flexible, and also fully ADA compliant,” says Landscape Forms Director of Design, Ryan Heiser. “Championing inclusivity and enabling more people to enjoy more outdoor experiences are fundamental to who we are at Landscape Forms, so to achieve this in a way that is also aesthetically inspiring is an especially proud moment for us.”

To head the design of Contour, Landscape Forms enlisted the expertise of Ignacio Ciocchini, an award-winning New York City-based industrial designer recognized for his excellence in product design for cities, streetscape design and master-planning with a keen focus on accessibility. "Between his work with multiple New York City Business Improvement Districts, his transformational restoration of Midtown Manhattan’s Bryant Park, and his dozens and dozens of ADA integrations all across the city, Ignacio Ciocchini was the perfect match for Contour,” continues Heiser. "He knows everything there is to know about ADA compliance and creating enduring beauty in public outdoor space, so his expertise runs throughout every aspect of these tables.”   

"You’ll find a lot of tables claiming to be wheelchair-accessible in the market today but, if you check the specifications, you’ll quickly understand they don’t fully comply with existing ADA regulations,” says designer, Ignacio Ciocchini. “The user experience those products offer people with disabilities is either null, or at the most, very different from the experience they offer people without a visible disability. So, for Contour, we focused relentlessly on understanding this problem and the existing regulations, designing for elegance and simplicity, and importantly, ensuring that the experience must be the same for all users—no shortcuts allowed,” Ciocchini continues. “This combination led us to create a product line that I believe is one step above any other tables on the market today."

A first in the outdoor site furnishing space, Contour is a system of mutually compatible components that can be combined to create different ADA compliant tables that address a range of site needs and can appear all throughout a given setting. Central to the design of Contour is the idea of achieving true inclusivity, adapting the design to create a universal user experience that is the same for both non-disabled users and users with a disability. "When you approach a setting of tables—whether it’s a bistro, a restaurant or a park—what if, instead of having that one ADA accessible table over there in the corner, every table was accessible to everyone? That’s exactly what you can achieve with Contour,” adds Ryan Heiser. 

The Contour system includes round, gently rounded square and gently rounded rectangular tabletops, each constructed from powdercoated steel, and each offered in two different sizes. The tables are then completed with a choice of four powdercoated aluminum legs or a surface-mounted pedestal constructed from either high-performance concrete or cast aluminum. 

In the four-legged versions, Contour's surface gently floats over rectangular, pill-shaped legs that protrude slightly from the edge of the table. The legs are positioned at 45-degree angles that flare out toward the user, creating a welcoming gesture, aiding ingress and egress, and lending Contour its unique appearance. In Contour's surface-mounted pedestal versions, a pill-shaped center column ends in a robust truncated-cone base that creates an elegant transition between table pedestal and paving surface. Throughout Contour’s iterations, the design specifically eliminates under-table obstructions and provides an optimal height, width and depth of knee clearance to ensure all spaces at the table can be ADA compliant. 

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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, LinkedIn, 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, 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 Ignacio Ciocchini

Ignacio Ciocchini is an award-winning Argentine-American industrial designer. He is a recognized expert in the fields of product design for cities, streetscape design and master-planning, and public space design. For over 20 years he worked for multiple New York City Agencies and Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) where he started as a junior designer and rose to Creative Director and Vice President of Design. Ciocchini created and managed design teams that tackled complex urban and public-space problems all over New York. After receiving more than 50 national and international design awards, he founded his design firm, Ciocchini Design. His signature achievements include the design of New York’s now-ubiquitous and iconic CityBench, and his participation in the on-going transformation of Midtown Manhattan’s Bryant Park from a once blighted park into one of New York City’s liveliest public spaces and recreational magnets. Ciocchini, who holds several U.S. patents for both design and utility, is now designing a modular furniture system for the Under the Elevated initiative of the NYC Department of Transportation (DOT), and recently completed several sustainable technology projects including the design of curbside Electric Vehicle chargers for FDNY ambulances, the MTA’s All-electric Bus Pilot program, and ConEdison’s plugNYC pilot program.