Bespoke furniture
Hospitality outdoor furniture has a different brief from residential outdoor furniture. The pieces have to look beautiful, but they also have to work for the operator — stack for the closing shift, cover for winter, carry replaceable cushion programmes against the seasonal cycle, and survive thousands of guest contacts per season rather than the few hundred a residential terrace sees. The decisions on a rooftop bar or a restaurant garden are commercial decisions before they are aesthetic ones.
The workshop builds hospitality terrace furniture for hotel rooftop bars, restaurant outdoor dining, members' club pool decks, beach clubs and resort restaurants. Programmes are specified with the operator's running procedures in mind: stacking heights, cover dimensions, cushion replacement schedules, the line of furniture that returns to the same position every morning.
Hospitality outdoor briefs typically cover a coordinated set of pieces.
Rooftop bar terraces with lounge seating, bar counters, and intimate seating arrangements around fire features. Furniture is specified for wind load (rooftop terraces see significantly stronger wind than ground-level ones), stacking and covering procedures for closed days, and the brand identity of the bar. Specified against the hotel's wider F&B operational plan.
Outdoor dining sets for restaurant gardens, courtyards, pavement seating and rooftop dining rooms. Tables and chairs are sized for two-cover, four-cover and larger group dining, with the configuration of the deck designed for service flow. Surfaces are specified for daily food and drink contact and aggressive cleaning.
Quieter, more residential-looking outdoor furniture for members' club outdoor zones. The brief sits between hospitality and residential: the pieces look as relaxed as residential furniture but are engineered for the club's daily use and operations regime.
Beach and resort hospitality with daybeds, loungers, dining and bar setups against a sand or stone deck. Pieces are specified against salt exposure and the more-aggressive sun of low-latitude resort locations; cushion replacement is budgeted into the seasonal operations programme.
Multi-use terraces that hold dining, drinks reception, lounging and event seating at different times. Furniture is specified as modular and configurable, with stacking and storage protocols that let the deck be reset between uses.
Operator integration is set at design. Cushion programmes (single set, dual set with off-season swap, replacement-on-cycle) are agreed at the brief stage and reflected in the unit count of cushions ordered. Stacking heights are calculated against the storage space the operator has during closed hours. Covers and protective wraps are specified as part of the package, not as an afterthought.
Materials follow the wider outdoor specification — teak, iroko, powder-coated aluminium, marine-grade hardware, reticulated foam, solution-dyed acrylic fabrics — with the additional engineering choices that hospitality use brings: heavier-grade hardware, reinforced corners, higher abrasion ratings on fabrics. Materials are detailed in the wider materials library.
Lead times for hospitality programmes run against the opening date. Prototypes are built and signed off early; production runs are timed to the opening month. Site delivery and installation are coordinated with the wider fit-out programme. The same operational discipline used for indoor hospitality supply applies to outdoor work.
This page covers one piece-type in the outdoor catalogue. The broader range — outdoor seating, dining and low tables, daybeds and loungers, pool decks, hospitality terraces and superyacht decks — sits under outdoor furniture. Fixed outdoor joinery (planters, built-in benches, outdoor kitchens) is covered under outdoor & terrace joinery. The cushion engineering — reticulated drains-rather-than-soaks foam, performance fabric specification — sits under foam in upholstery and performance fabrics.
