Armchairs for the corner where guests wait

01Seat depth decides how long a guest stays

Twenty minutes standing is a queue, twenty minutes sitting is a wait, and the difference between the two is 80 mm of seat depth. Armchairs on this list run 540 mm deep against the 460 mm of the dining chairs in the same room, with the back raked to 105 degrees, so a guest settles in with their coat still on rather than perching on the front edge.

Numbers go on the sheet.

02Two frames, one outline

Steel or hardwood, the outline is the same, and both frames take the same pad and the same cover, so a store can put a timber armchair at the entrance and steel units by the counter and the fabric still reads as one order rather than two purchases.

One cover code per wave.

03What wears first on a deep seat

The seat pad goes before the frame does, usually along the front edge where guests slide forward to stand up. Pads lift off a bayonet fitting and travel as their own line on the packing list, so one worn cushion in one unit does not mean a new armchair crossing the water.