Gazette
Breakout Tables: Where the Good Ideas Actually Happen
Tables for the spaces between meetings: standard or poseur height, round for conversation, bases that leave the edge clear, and castors for rooms that change.
Heavy Duty and 24 Hour Chairs: Built for Proper Shifts
Control rooms, call centres and shared seats need chairs rated for round the clock use and higher weights. What the 24 hour rating covers, and when you do not need one.
Canteen and Dining Chairs: Hard Wearing Seats for the Hungriest Room
Wipe-clean finishes, stacking frames and seat heights that match the table: how Marcus picks canteen chairs that survive lunch rush after lunch rush.
Modular Seating: Build the Breakout You Actually Need
Modular office seating is bought as one object and used as one object, which wastes the point of it. Plan by module, corner and power unit instead.
Training Room Tables: Flip Tops, Castors and Quick Change Rooms
Rows on Tuesday, interviews on Wednesday. Marcus on castors, flip tops and the shapes that make a training room change in minutes rather than lunchtimes.
Poseur Tables and Bar Stools: Standing Height Socialising
Poseur tables get used more than sofas, as long as the stools are the right height. The seat-to-top sum, footrests, and which of ours pairs with which.
Stacking and Folding Chairs: Seating That Disappears When You're Done
Stack height, weight, trolleys and linking clips: the four things that decide whether a stacking chair earns its cupboard, and when a folding chair is the better buy.
How to Read a Furniture Website Price
Every office furniture site prints a price. Marcus on how to tell whether that number is the price you will pay, or the opening bid the trade expects you to beat on the phone.
Modular Seating Layouts, Built in 3D Before You Buy
Our Mawsley, Harlestone and Brixworth pages now have a layout builder. Put the units together in 3D, check the size, and add the whole sofa to your basket.
Draughtsman Chairs: For When Your Desk Is Taller Than Average
Counters, lab benches and standing-height desks need a taller seat and somewhere to put your feet. What makes a draughtsman chair different, and how to size one.
Ergonomic Chairs vs Task Chairs: Where the Money Goes
What the ergonomic badge should mean before a chair earns the extra money, and where a plain task chair does the same job for a third of the price.
Meeting Tables: Sizes, Shapes, and Seating Maths
How many people genuinely fit round each meeting table size? The elbow maths, the shapes, and the tape measure trick that stops you buying a table the room cannot hold.