CafĂŠ & Casual Dining Furniture
Preview Booklet
What should you expect from your furniture supplier? CHOICE Choice matters. We have over 3,000 products on our website, from more than 100 EU and UK factories. The latest designs are introduced weekly. We also have an extensive bespoke manufacturing capability. CONVENIENCE We aim to make it easy for you to choose furniture. We have a Central London showroom with over 500 furniture samples, which can be couriered to you. We have a user-friendly, informative website. We respond immediately to quote and proposal requests and supply free CAD drawings. COMPETITIVENESS We offer value for money. We keep our prices as low as reasonably possible. Our prices are immediately responsive to exchange rates; deliveries are charged at cost price; there are significant savings for bulk orders. We price match on like-for-like products and service. We offer credit accounts for regular customers. COMMITMENT We want long-term win-win relationships with our customers. We have an in-house aftersales team to minimise delivery hassles, we use specialist installers to manage the actual deliveries; we use a UK-wide network of furniture repairers; we use Salesforce, the world’s leading customer management software. Finally, we offer lifetime guarantees against manufacturing faults.
The Contract Chair Company
Testimonials
We supply furniture for restaurants, cafes, hotels, cruise liners, student accommodation and other hospitality businesses.
“We have been pleased with the help & proactive work of The Contract Chair Company since 2009. Nothing has been too much trouble and they continue to give the same great, honest & attentive service on everyday jobs as they did on the first prototype stores. We have never yet been let down by the team and would always look to them for any future opportunities.” Vicky Tuely, Senior Designer, Waitrose
Our customers and designers benefit from choice of furniture, convenience and competitive prices. We are absolutely committed to providing excellent service. We are a friendly team of industry professionals, based in Hammersmith, where we also have space for our large and ever-changing collection of furniture.
Our Café & Casual Dining Division If you are out and about, casual dining is growing to dominate our mealtimes. Whether it’s in a supermarket, garden centre or a stand-alone cafè, we all do it more and more. The furniture for this type of dining tends to be robust and is not usually upholstered. Design continues to increase in importance as a method of attracting potential customers. As you will see from this booklet, we deal with a wide variety of cafès and casual dining outlets. Focusing mainly (but certainly not entirely) on London and the home counties, we supply side chairs, armchairs, table bases and table tops, benches, bespoke tables and fixed seating as well as soft furnishings. Our team here is vastly experienced and our showroom is full of relevant products. For our full range of over 3,000 products, please visit our website.
“I have worked with James and The Contract Chair Company over the last 5 years and haven’t found another supplier who provides a service like theirs. James and his team are a real pleasure to work with and I know when I have an important project to complete, I can rely on them to support me properly and deliver on time to the agreed spec.” Jane Cookson, Head of Catering, The Royal Horticultural Society “We have been working with The Contract Chair Company for the past 3 years and will certainly continue to do so. The service they offer continually beats our expectations. Every project we approach them with is tackled with energy and enthusiasm. I would certainly recommend them to others.” Charlotte Poole, Commercial Manager, Mercedes Benz World
ide Chairs
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Side Chairs Wooden, metal, plastic, upholstered, painted, stained; side chairs come pretty much any way you can imagine. Ask us which designs are in fashion, which is practical and which are best value – we are constantly specifying side chairs to a wide range of hospitality businesses. We have 100’s of samples in our showroom, with more arriving every week. Guide prices and further details for over 200 side chairs available online.
Metal Frame
Kuadra 1351
Tio
Tweet
Ivy
Randa
Koi Booki
3D
Next
Volt
Working Girl
Fero
Antelope
JP
Plastic
Pop
Vintage
New Skool Vintage
Bentwood
150
16
A-8291
Banana
A-10/6658
Smile Stickback
Ironica
Unique
A-0537
A-1102/1
CO2
Croissant
Ideal
Kitty
Wanda
Lola
Doll 551
A18/14
Wooden
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Armchairs Some cafes choose only armchairs; other specify a combination. Either way, for most side chairs, there’s a matching armchair. They make a great statement and can be more comfortable and sturdier than a side chair. Armchairs make it easier to raise yourself out of a chair. Guide prices and further details for over 180 armchairs available online.
Metal Frame
Ivy
Tina
Strike
Moulin
Round
Volt
Comback
Masters
Cyborg Club
B-8291
002
B-0542
B-18
Plastic
Air
Bentwood
No. 30
Wooden
Croissant
Carola SO 0896
Matador
Malmo 395
Dixie
Sign 455
Milo
Maverick
Nub Wood
Merano
Steelwood
Passage
ables
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Tables Usually you’ll choose tops and bases separately, so having a vast choice; but a significant minority opt for distinctive larger tables (see image), ideal for communal style dining. An easy mistake is to choose bases that don’t allow chairs to be pushed under the table; let us help you avoid this pitfall (and others). Guide prices and further details for over 110 items available online.
Bases
Liberty
Bistrot
Dream
Impero
Easy
Au
Hairpin
Avangard
Cage
Solid Wood
Veneer
Glass
Laminate
Bases
Inox
Tops
Marble
Bespoke Tables
Trestle
TF086
TF-TC3
SL004
Rough Living
Labrus II
Choose barstools to complement nearby furniture – most seats have matching stools. Consider that stools with backs will have more impact than backless stools and will tend to be more comfortable, encouraging guests to linger longer. Let our team guide you through the selection process and help you avoid the pitfalls. Guide prices and further details for over 300 barstools available online.
Round
Brera
Speed
3D
Strike
Croissant
Deli
Rebar
Solo
Vinga
Banana
CO2
BST 9739/80
BST 18
BST 8291
arstools
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Barstools
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espoke
Bespoke Furniture We create bespoke furniture for the UK’s top hotel, restaurant and café groups as well as highly acclaimed design practices. We enjoy doing this and appreciate the various intricacies associated with one-off designs. Below are our specialities: Wooden dining chairs
We are able to produce bespoke wooden dining chairs, with short lead-times. Dining chairs that are both well-made and inexpensive are notoriously difficult to produce in small numbers, but we have a long track record. Upholstered furniture
We have good relationships with a number of factories who can produce upholstered furniture to almost any design. Using wooden frames and foam upholstery, most shapes can be created. Again, lead times are surprisingly short. Tables
Most of our wooden table tops are made to order as we offer such a vast range of possible materials, shapes, finishes, thickness and edge detail. We can also make wooden table bases as well as complete tables of most types – dining, coffee, occasional or console, as well as bedside tables. Metalwork
We have completed various projects for design practices where we have been asked to create designs using metal components. We have several factories which specialise in metalwork and turn the toughest of production challenges into successful projects.
Roll Out Projects We have worked with many companies who are rolling-out their concepts across the UK. We believe there are a number of important considerations: Great Logistics Central to roll-outs are logistics that are capable and flexible, as plans can and do change with little warning. We have the ability to provide anything from a single person in a van to ten people and an articulated lorry. All at short notice and charged at cost price – no mark-up. Temporary Warehousing If you change your plans, perhaps delaying an opening or shifting furniture from one site to the next, we can provide temporary warehousing for orders of any size. Design and Development Design concepts evolve over time, while still maintaining a particular look and feel. We understand this and can work with designers and end users to make subtle (or not so subtle!) changes to your furniture schedules. Economies of Scale If you have more than one site, you can benefit from consolidating orders so getting a better factory discount; even if the delivery dates are weeks or months apart. Fixed Pricing If you commit to us, we can commit to you to fix the price of your furniture over a period of many months, so you can be confident of your furniture costs. Competence Roll-outs can get complicated; different sites have different requirements, you may use more than one designer. Our teams understand this and can deal with most eventualities. Try us!
Gourmet Burger Kitchen
Pho Restaurant
Our Pick of Recent Projects
Union Street Cafe
The Fable
Whyte and Brown
Andina Peruvian Kitchen
No. 11 Pimlico
Reebok Sports Club
Our Showroom Our home is a 6,000 square foot working showroom in Hammersmith, which we built for ourselves in 2011. We have over 500 dining type chairs, 100 table top and table base samples, 50 barstools and a dedicated outdoor furniture section with over 100 items. We have fabric books, colour swatches, wood samples and table edges. Please do drop-in, but if you get in touch beforehand, we can ensure a manager is available to answer your questions. Free parking is available in our front yard.
CafĂŠ & Casual Dining Division 020 8735 6007 James Ketteringham james@thecontractchair.co.uk Hooria Eltumi hooria@thecontractchair.co.uk Julie Connell julie@thecontractchair.co.uk
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Contact Us 0800 8494 135 (freephone) 135 Glenthorne Rd Hammersmith London W6 0LJ www.thecontractchair.co.uk ContractChairCo The Contract Chair Company
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