bentwood chairs
what to look for!
Enter a function room that has been decorated and dressed for a special event and the single most important element is providing that all important WOW factor are the chairs!
Bentwood chairs combine strength and durability with beauty, at least they do if they are properly crafted using good quality materials and traditional craftsmanship. It is all too easy to buy on price and only later realise why an initial higher investment would have been wiser!
How a Bentwood chair is constructed
Our
Camelot chair shows the bentwood construction around the seat. If
traditionally constructed from a single piece of beech wood, the
seat surround will be continuous and have only one join. This is
much stronger than cheaper imitations in which the seat is constructed
from four separate pieces of wood. Using multiple components is
quicker and easier but the result lacks the resilience of the traditional
method.
The green wood is bent using steam.The best modern manufacturing practices now use high frequency energy combined with steam which ensures that the bending of each components is exactly the same as that for every other component of the same type. Not only does this give a consistent product which is attractive in itself, for chairs that are designed to be stacked, consistency of size and shape is essential if stacks are to be stable. Users of Band International chairs will find that our chairs stack exceptionally well, this is due to a combination of design and high quality manufacturing.
The bentwood construction is most obvious around the seat support, but the legs are also curved. This not only gives them an elegance unique to this type of seating, it also is crucial to their ability to stack well. Again, quality of manufacturer is vital in the chair leg as well as the seat support, if stacks of chairs are to be stable.
The importance of the finish
The quality of finish is guaranteed on all our chairs. Any event promoter or venue manager will know how expensive frequent repair and re-lacquering is when chairs suffer slight scuffing and abrasion as is inevitable. As always, a good quality lacquer or varnish is worth it in the long run, not only do chairs look better but last longer without any remedial work needed on them.
All Band International bentwood chairs are manufactured to ISO 9000.