2020 Galleries
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Galleries // 2020 Spark:Product // Glide
Glide
Finalist
Competition: Spark:Product
Designer: Loll Designs
Design Type: Street furniture & fittings
Company / Organization / School: Landscape Forms
Website: https://www.landscapeforms.com/en-US/Pages/default.aspx
Team Members: Landscape Forms: Site Li & Kirk Martin + Loll Designs.
The Glide bench, designed in collaboration with Loll Designs, represents a conversation between restraint and innovation in design. Glide combines Loll Designs’ pioneering expertise working with post-consumer recycled plastic (HDPE) and Landscape Forms’ broad technical experience in metal fabrication and engineering to beautifully and seamlessly unite the two materials. The design plays to the individual strengths of each material such that the HDPE seat and back function in concert with metal supports. Much of the design process was dedicated to the elegant and structurally-sound combination of both materials without any visible screws or fasteners. The result of which was a unique understructure that enables the plastic components to naturally expand and contract in changing temperatures while still maintaining a seamless connection to the metal base.
