Gazette
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.
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.
Cantilever Chairs: The Meeting Room Workhorse
The cantilever frame has no back legs, no casters and nothing much to break, which is why it still fills most meeting rooms. Here is what to check before you order a dozen.
Bench Desks: The Case for Sitting Together
Why bench desking took over: cost per seat, one run of cabling, and extension kits that let a team grow without replacing the furniture. Plus where it goes wrong.
Executive Chairs: Comfort, Presence, and the Leather Question
Padding depth, recline, and the three different things sold as leather. Plus the point at which a plain mesh chair is the better buy, even in a smart office.