Everything You Need To Know About Banquet Chairs

09 Dec.,2024

 

Everything You Need To Know About Banquet Chairs

When you are organizing an event, seating goes a long way towards setting the appropriate atmosphere. Banquet chairs allow you to provide simple, elegant, convenient seating for large numbers of people. Despite the name, banquet chairs are appropriate for any formal event, such as a business lecture, a reception, or a charity event.

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What Are Banquet Chairs?

Banquet chairs are a type of temporary seating, only intended to be used for a few hours at a time. They are built to be portable and stackable. This allows them to be set up and put away relatively quickly and stored easily until needed again. They are made out of lightweight, durable materials. Banquet chairs often lack armrests because these can interfere with stacking, but they are styled with elegant designs befitting a formal occasion.

Types of Banquet Chairs

There are a variety of standard banquet chair styles available. These include:

  • Chiavari: Chiavari chairs are the original banquet chairs, developed by a cabinetmaker in Chiavari, Italy in . The backs are roughly square-shaped and open, with decorative joints carved to resemble bamboo.
  • Dome Back: The backrest of a dome back banquet chair is square at the bottom but rounded at the top.
  • Teardrop Back: The backrest of a teardrop back chair is an oval shape that is slightly narrower at the top.
  • Crown Back: This backrest is square at the bottom and comes to a rounded point at the top.

Most banquet chairs are padded on the seat and the backrest with foam covered by upholstery. This is to provide extra comfort when a person is seated.

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How Much Do Banquet Chairs Cost?

Banquet chairs usually cost $30 or more, and higher-end models can even cost over $90 per chair. You may get a discount by purchasing wholesale. Banquet chairs are typically bought in large quantities, as manufacturers frequently lower the price per chair when you buy more.

How Wide Are Banquet Chairs?

Banquet chairs range in size from 17 inches to 20 inches or more. There is some variance in width depending on the style you choose. Keep in mind the needs of your guests as you&#;re choosing a banquet chair size. You want to be able to accommodate many different people.

Another factor to consider is weight capacity. Most standard banquet chairs will hold at least a few hundred pounds. A typical range is 500 to lbs.

How Many Banquet Chairs Do You Need?

The number of banquet chairs you need depends on a number of different factors. Two of the most significant are the size of the room and the type of event. If it is something like a lecture, you may not need tables but only chairs. If you do require tables, the size and the shape of the tables directly impact seating capacity.

There are several industry standard guidelines to follow when setting up tables for an event:

  • If the tables are round, there should be at least 60 inches of space between each one. This allows 18 inches for the chairs and 24 inches of walking room.
  • When square tables are at angles to one another, there should be 24 inches between the adjacent corners of each table. When they are parallel to one another, there should be 16 to 30 inches between chairs with their backs to one another.
  • When budgeting 18 inches between the table and the chair, this works out to between 52 and 66 inches between each table.

Banquet Seating Arrangements

There are a variety of seating arrangements you can use for banquet chairs and tables, depending on the type of event and how the space needs to be utilized. Here are a few ideas:

  • Straight rows of rectangular tables and chairs
  • Diagonal rows of round tables and chairs
  • Theatre or auditorium style seating
  • Herringbone/fish bone style seating
  • Classroom style setup
  • Conference style setup
  • U-shaped, square-shaped, or circular setup

Here is a guide to setting up event tables and chairs.

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3 Things to Know About Buying Banquet Chairs - NORPEL

Banquet chairs appeared in hotels in the early days, and they were widely used in hotel and restaurant banquet halls. Because of the requirements of the hotel, they have the following characteristics: light, comfortable and durable, easy to transport quickly, easy to store, and easy to take care of. Nowadays banquet chairs are not only used in hotels, but also widely used in conferences, weddings, events, celebrations, music festivals, and receptions.

Therefore, metal materials or a combination of metal and wood are generally used in banquet furniture.

The Determinants of Quality And Price of Banquet Chairs

the higher the price the better the quality.

The banqueting chair is mainly composed of three parts: frame, sponge and fabric.


These aspects are the factors that affect the quality of banquet chairs, as well as the price.


Now Let's talk about these three aspects in detail.


1. Frame

There is great competition for wholesale banquet chairs in the market, so its price is very transparent. It can be said that in the same style banquet chair,

The frame of banquet hall chair is made of Iron, aluminum alloy, stainless steel or resin.

  • Iron frame: low price, but very heavy. If you buy iron banquet chairs, please choose a frame thickness above 1.0mm.

  • Aluminum alloy frame: high price, but very light. It is convenient for staff to move the chairs. For

    : high price, but very light. It is convenient for staff to move the chairs. For aluminum banquet chairs , please choose a frame thickness of 2.0mm or more.

  • Stainless steel frame: The weight is basically equal to that of the iron frame. With a much higher price, the stainless steel banquet chair has a strong corrosion resistance.

  • Resin frame, which is what we often call clearance banquet chair: high strength, light weight and corrosion resistance. But compared with metal banquet chairs, resin chairs are not durable.

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Norpel Furniture generally produces banquet function chairs in iron frames and aluminum alloy frames.



2. Sponge

Sponge is one of the important factors that determine the sitting feeling and durability of a banquet event chair.

(1) Common sponge

Foamed sponge is what we usually call common sponge. The density of a sponge is a measure of its strengths and weaknesses.
The material is foamed with polyether, like foamed bread. So the foamed sponge is like a square loaf of bread. Then it is sliced and cut the thickness according to different requirements. We can ajust the softness and hardness of the foam too.

In furniture industry, the density of seat cushion sponge generally uses 25~28kg/m3, other parts are 20~22kg/m3.

High density sponge is foam with a weight of more than 25 kilograms per cubic meter. (Density &#; 25 is high density sponge, density between 24 and 18 is medium density, density <18 is low density.)

Our banquet chair for sale seat is normally made of high-density sponge. The conventional thickness is 6cm. 8cm, 10cm can be customized. As the density and thickness increases, the price also rises.

As the density and thickness increases, the price also rises.



(2) Molded Polyurethane Foam

This material is made of polyurethane, mixed with a variety of additives such as foaming agent, and injected into the mold to foam different shapes of sponges. It is suitable for swivel chairs and sofa seat cushions, backrest sponges. The density is 50-60 (high density and high quality, relatively good compressibility). Generally, seat sponges are harder and denser, while the backrest sponges are lower.

Molded PU foam is generally used on office chairs, auditorium chairs or other shaped furniture. The basic characteristic of these furniture is the high frequency of use, so the sponge density requirements are also higher. Hotel banquet chair, also a seat with high frequency of use, the seat sponge can also choose to use molded PU foam.

Customers can ask for the use of molded foam when inquiring. Molded sponges are more expensive than common high-density foams.


(3) Recycled foam

There is also a kind of "recycled sponge", which is actually made by squeezing sponge scraps. The cost is very low, and the flexibility is very poor. Very low-priced chairs (the ex-work price less than $10) may use this sponge. Recycled foam is excluded from the raw material range of Norpel products, so we will not discuss it.




3. Textile

The textiles of banquet stacking chair generally have polyester, nylon, velvet, cotton and linen. The fabric has different colors and patterns. We also can produces upholstery with leatherette or genuine leather. The price of banquet chairs is different for different fabrics.


Finally, in addition to materials, there are other factors that affect the quality and price of banquet chairs.

How to choose banquet chairs with the same materials?

  1. Look at the shape of the banquet chair. Whether the overall appearance is beautiful, and the lines are smooth;

  2. The sitting feeling of the banquet chair. Whether the backrest is wrapped, curve is comfortable, and whether the thickness of the cushion is appropriate;

  3. Look at the workmanship of the banquet chair. Whether the details of upholsteries are smooth, and whether the frame is polished smoothly;

  4. The surface spraying is smooth.


Would you know how to choose a banquet chair now?

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