Booth is designed to create interaction spaces that are fresh yet familiar, taking the warmth, comfort and intimacy of a widely enjoyed indoor seating experience and reimagining it for the outdoors. New from Landscape Forms, it’s a social and friendly design, intended to define spaces that bring people together and encourage closeness and quality conversation.
“Booth was inspired by our profound need as humans to anchor ourselves in outdoor spaces,” describes Landscape Forms Chief Innovation Officer, Kirt Martin. “We’ve taken the familiar typology of an indoor booth, and brought it outdoors — giving people an intuitive, welcoming and intimate space to come together to work, dine or socialize. It creates a room within a room outdoors, and it’s never been done before this way.”
Booth includes two seating silhouettes — a tall back booth and a low back booth— designed to meet face-to-face in pairs that inspire and enhance interaction. Rounded corners and softened edges create a comfortable character, while a subtle flare to the form of the seat and metal support structure offers a congenial, inviting gesture. Both the tall back and low back booths feature warm, fillet-edged wood slats for the seat and back, and the design for the tall back booth includes an additional powdercoated metal portion atop the back to enhance a sense of privacy and accentuate the room-within-a-room experience. Hooks located on both sides of the booth toward the top of the back provide convenient storage for bags and coats.
In outdoor installations, two booths fit tightly together when arranged back-to-back, enabling space-efficient groupings for generous outdoor seating and dining space. Booth can also stand alone as an architectural bench, as an accessible one-sided booth, or against a wall as modern banquette-style seating. This versatility in arrangement coupled with Booth’s distinct design focus on balancing openness and accessibility with semi-privacy creates a new wealth of possibilities in the way people engage with outdoor space — from dining, to socializing, to outdoor work and group collaboration.
“The obvious use case is outdoor dining, but we see a lot of potential for Booth in spaces like corporate and higher education campuses to do much more as well,” says Landscape Forms Director of Design, Ryan Heiser. “We’ve had them installed on our campus for a while now, and they’re enjoyed constantly for everything from meetings, to small group collaboration, to individual work.”
Booth is designed to pair with Landscape Forms’ new line of modular Contour tables, and offered in a range of sustainable, naturally weathering exterior woods. Included in these options is dassoXTR Fused Bamboo®, a new material addition to the company’s portfolio. Engineered specifically for use outdoors. fused bamboo is incredibility stable and durable, elegantly dark in color, and is sustainable with very low environmental impact. Find out more about Booth by Landscape Forms
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