BANQUETTE SEATING – WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

Banquette seating has always been used in restaurant and bar design. It can be used simply as seating that runs around a venue, or it can be a statement pieces that catches attention and draws the eye. Go into any restaurant, bar, or café that has a booth or diner style seating and these will always be a customer first choice if given the option of where to sit. It is also a practical option as it allows for flexibility in cover numbers and when its time to give your restaurant a refresh, they can simply be re-upholstered to give them a whole new look and feel.

Fixed seating offers so many options, and here we look at all the things you need to know – from the options available, to their basic construction.

How to incorporate fixed seating within your design?

The beauty of fixed seating and banquette seating the bespoke nature of the product. Our units are designed and created for each individual venue, which means that they can fit every corner, wall and space perfectly and can be built to your design specifications. It can be straight, curved or a combination of both with varying heights and design elements – In terms of layout, the only real limit to what is achievable is the space it’s being installed in. 

Banquette seating can be fixed to the wall, so it is literally built into your venue, or it can be loose, which means it can be positioned in the centre of a venue to create dividers, booths and can even have planters incorporated to add a biophilic element.

Both options can be any size – from a couple of meters to 100’s of meters, and we have unrivalled experience in supplying banquette seating to the market, so you know your in safe hands with Hill Cross Furniture.

You can read more about incorporating fixed seating into your design HERE

Banquette Seating Styles

With so many options available, the sky is the limit with your design – here are some of the factors to consider… (download guide)

Shape – are you looking for curved, straight, high back, diner style booths or a statement piece?

Materials – Do you want fabric or leather? A combination of both or an alternative like SiLeather? Do you want your banquette to be a standard timber banquette, or do you want it to be metal in construction?

Base – Do you want kick-boards or feet? Feet (also known as settles) allow for access under the banquette, whereas kick-boards close it off down to the floor and is the more common (and cost effective) option. Or do you want something else?

Capping – Is the banquette going to be edge to edge on walls, or will the ends need capping or finishing, do you want this as a timber panel or with the upholstery taken over the edge?

Stitch Details – You can add creative design elements with stitch details

How bespoke do you want to go? – Although every banquette we produce is bespoke, there tends to be a few more standard styles, but this shouldn’t limit what you want… we can build your banquettes to your exact specifications so whatever your ideas – talk to us about how we can help build your designs.

Sustainable options

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As a company, Hill Cross Furniture have made a commitment to becoming a sustainable contract furniture supplier, you can read more about this commitment here. A big part of this is our ability to produce sustainable banquette seating, utilising the best in sustainable materials and creating a product that has a full circle life and can be broken down, recycled and even composted at the end of its contract life.

We work with foam alternatives like natural latex, coconut fibres and cattle tails along with foam made from recycled plastic bottles. Timber is sourced from FSC certified forests and we have a number of partners like Camira and Muirhead leather that provide sustainable fabrics to upholster the banquettes.

An example of one of our sustainable projects is Nandos in Cambridge – Which was the first restaurant in the World to be given the SKA Gold rating.

Find out more about our sustainable offering and Nandos Cambridge HERE

Construction

We work with our trusted, local manufactures to produce the highest quality of fixed seating. Using joiners and upholsters that fully understand the requirements of banquette seating allows us to control the standard and ensure that ever meter we produce is built to stand the test of time.

We have devised an internal structure of seating that offers maximum strength, with minimal materials – meaning there is no unnecessary costs passed onto the client, and our team of fitters will install within your venue as part of the service. All this means you are getting the best banquette seating available.

Site Visits

As part of or service, we carry out a site survey to ensure that all measurements are accurate and that the design has taken all the elements of the venue into consideration (like pipes, vents and windows) and even provide templates (full size layout markers) for the main contractor work around so there is not issues on delivery and installation of the banquette seating.

With our extensive amount of knowledge around banquette seating, and our fully project managed service that ensures your project is delivered on time, on budget and to your specification you can rest assured that you are in safe hands… So, get in touch by calling: 01325 378 307 or by completing the form below to arrange a call back.