Modern banqueting furniture must satisfy a range of functions in order to find a market in the UK. Until recently if a hotel, large restaurant or meeting hall had a requirement for a large quantity of banquet chairs and tables for a wedding or to promote their premises for Christmas parties or as a venue for a sales fair or large business meeting, they would simply hire the banquet chairs and banquet tables. Since the 1950′s many catering equipment hire companies set up to accommodate these requirements and would have several hundred banquet chairs available in their stock to satisfy this demand. Marquee hire Companies also became a big user of banquet furniture, having the advantage of being able to provide not only the banquet tables and chairs but also the space for them to go into allowing the hotel, restaurant or private individual to use their land or garden to erect a marquee and increase their space for this short term demand.
In the past few years more and more Hotels and restaurants have chosen to buy their own banquet furniture as prices have fallen sharply due to the availability of cheap imports from China, Malaysia and other far eastern Countries. The quality of these banquet chairs is generally very good and chairs with steel, aluminium or wooden frames are available.
Because these banquet chairs are designed to stack safely to 10 or 12 high, they can be conveniently stored when not in use and brought out when a big function demands their use. The quality of some of the chairs is high enough that in some cases, proprietors will use them as their primary chair. The steel and aluminium banquet chairs are available with a wide variety of frame finishes, from gold, black or silver, through to translucent deep reds or even using a printed melamine that is baked onto the frame to give a very convincing wood effect. The traditional real-wood banquet chairs have decorative spindlebacks are finished in bright gold colour or pure white, which looks wonderful for a wedding but may be a little over the top for regular use. With this in mind many purchasers choose to retain the natural wood with a stained finish, most popularly in light oak, walnut or mahogany stain. Only the seat pad is upholstered on these wooden banquet chairs but they are very comfortable and of course the owner can choose a fabric which fits in with his or her hotel or restaurant interior. These chairs are also available with removable seat pads so that a range of seat colours can be offered to there customers which can be a really good selling point if the chairs are to be used for a wedding. The aluminium and steel banquet chairs have both the seat and the back upholstered and again the fabric can be specified to complement the decor.
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