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Perisphere

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Perisphere
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Urbidermis.

About Urbidermis

Urbidermis is a company with vision and a strong point of view. Founded in Spain in 1985, the Spanish National Design Award winner acts as editor and mediator to bring to market exceptional urban furniture, objects and writing on design. Landscape Forms is the exclusive distributor of the Urbidermis Urban Elements collection in the U.S. and Canada. These distinctive designs share the Landscape Forms vocabulary but have a vernacular all their own. Minimal, elegant in their simplicity and beautifully resolved, they introduce an international spirit to the Landscape Forms collection of outdoor furniture for public spaces.

A tribute to the iconic New York City park bench designed by Robert Moses and Kenneth Lynch for the 1939 World's Fair, Perisphere is a 21st century re-imagining of a 20th century urban icon. Designed by James Corner Field Operations — the renowned New York landscape architecture studio behind the High Line — for design partner Urbidermis. Perisphere captures the character of the original design while bringing new levels of functionality, ergonomic appeal, and durability. The signature curve of its arms gives Perisphere a presence that is at once robust and stylized. Standing alone, it is a bench designed for individual use, but when conjoined it can create benches and banquettes of various compositions, with or without backrests. This truly modular capability makes Perisphere at-home in both intimate gardens and busy public spaces.