Bespoke Banquette Seating
by DeFrae
Fixed Banquette, Booth and Bench bespoke seating. Hand made in the UK for your restaurant, bar, coffee shop, office or hotel.
Bespoke Seating by DeFrae
Bespoke seating, often referred to as booth seating, banquette seating, or fixed seating, adds comfort and style to any venue. Whether you’re running a bustling restaurant, a cosy coffee shop, a vibrant bar, or an elegant hotel, custom seating solutions help create a warm and inviting atmosphere for your guests.
At DeFrae Contract Furniture, our bespoke seating is handcrafted in the UK by skilled craftsmen. Every piece is made to fit your space perfectly, ensuring it blends seamlessly with your venue’s style and layout.
Why Choose Bespoke Seating?
Choosing bespoke seating for your venue offers several advantages:
- Tailored Fit: Every piece is custom-made to suit your space, maximising comfort and practicality.
- Stylish Options: Choose from booth seating, banquettes, curved or U-shaped booths, café-style benches, or straight run seating.
- Endless Fabric Choices: Upholster your seating in materials like velvet, faux leather, boucle, floral designs, or even your own fabric (COM).
- Durability: Built to withstand the demands of busy hospitality venues, bespoke seating offers a long-lasting solution
Benefits of banquette seating
Our bespoke seating is perfect for a range of venues, including:
- Restaurants: Create a luxurious dining experience with fixed seating.
- Bars: Add stylish booths for privacy and comfort.
- Coffee Shops: Optimise smaller spaces with café-style bench seating.
- Hotels: Enhance your lobby, lounge, or dining areas.
- Leisure Venues: Tailor your seating to suit clubs, spas, or entertainment spaces.
Seating styles and options
At DeFrae, we offer a variety of seating styles to match your venue’s design and ambiance:
- American Diner Style Booth Seating: Add a retro touch to your space.
- Curved or U-Shaped Booths: Create intimate seating areas for groups.
- Café-Style Bench Seating: Perfect for casual and communal dining.
- Straight Run Seating: A versatile option suitable for many layouts.
Vertical Fluting
Vertical fluting brings a contemporary look to any venues banquette seating. This style is popular for straight units as well as individual booths. The vertical fluting is also available in various depths, heights and scallop style rounded tops.
Vertical fluting also adds definition and curvature to your fixed or booth seating. A modern choice for restaurants and dining environments alike.
Button Back
Button back bespoke banquette seating never goes out of style.
We handcraft our button detail fixed seating in a range of style options including Deep button, Shallow button, Floating buttons, square stitched button, Chesterfield button or you can also create your own style.
Plain Back
A plain back option for your bench, booth or banquette seating gives a clean look to any contract environment and a head roll feature is also available. An ideal bespoke seating option for any restaurant, coffee shop, bar or hotel.
BOOTH SEATING
Booth seating helps create comfortable intimacy, privacy in a semi-enclosed and provide a more uniformed space overall. Typically arranged back to back in a restaurant, bar, diner or coffee shop.
To create a retro or American diner style look, horizontal fluting is a great option. Dimensions are variable in order to create exactly the look you want for your bespoke seating and the number of rolls is up to you from 3 to 15, the choice is yours. That sweet style look can be created for Ice Cream parlours, Milkshake Bars and cafes.
Our booth seating options are styled to your exact requirements with a choice of upholstery options including classic plain, button, quilted, fluted vertically or horizontally.
OFFICE BOOTHS AND PODS
BOOTHS, PODS, SNUGS AND CABINS
A workspace booth or pod provides a much need space for quiet time, brainstorming or client meetings.
Working with your office fit-out teams, we create bespoke office seating solutions including booths, pods, snugs, cabins, phone booths and also breakout area seating.
Our team of bespoke seating experts can help create a new workspace for your teams to help drive efficiency and productivity.
BESPOKE SEATING STYLE
Our team of specialist carpenters and upholsters can create your bespoke seating in your own vision, so as to cover any space. Working with you or your designer to maximise space, design and comfort.
Are you looking for booths, circular (u shaped) or also curved seating, trying to fill a space that won’t fit a table? Speak to our team and we can help maximise the space for you to help increase covers instead.
Upholstery of Banquettes
Have existing banquette seating or booths? Need to give them a refresh rather than add new completely new seating? Our re-upholstery service can help bring them back to life, for a new look that will last.
Choosing Your Fabrics
DeFrae work with all the largest suppliers of contract grade fabrics in the world.
If you are a designer or contractor call us for more information and range of pricing per square metre and our upholstery pages for our ranges of designer fabrics, leathers, faux leathers / vinyl, velvet, boucle and also textured fabrics.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is banquette seating?
The word Banquette derives from French word banqueta and means literally, banc bench. Banquette seating is normally a long-upholstered bench that is fixed to the wall.
Each bench is created exactly to the size requirements of each individual restaurant, hotel, coffee shop or also now many homes.
It helps to create an intimate dining experience and helps to save space by allowing tables to be closer together.
Does banquette seating save space?
Yes they do save space. Bench or banquette seating can help you save space in hospitality venues. They allow the venue to maximise every inch of a wall with seats for customers increasing capacity, safely.
U shaped or curved booths can help get larger groups together in less space and maximise table sizing.
Frequently Asked Questions
How tall is banquette seating?
The height of the seats can be dependent on the venue. Many styles are available from 50cms high to 1.2 metres in height depending on the aesthetics of the venue.
Every banquette / bench seat we make is hand made to your exact requirements, so the overall height is up to you. For the majority of bench seating we recommend a height of 90cms to 1.1 metres.
How deep is banquette seating?
The back of the banquette is normally between 8-15cms deep depending on the style chosen. Deep button and fluted styles need a deeper back to allow the fabric to be rolled into place to create the final look. The seat of the banquette is normally 45cms deep.
What is the lead time for banquette seating?
Depending on fabric stock and availability, normally we can create your banquette seating in around 4-5 weeks as a guide.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is booth seating?
Booth seating provides a comfortable, enclosed, private space for diners, clubbers and meetings. Normally an upholstered seat fits 2,3 or 4 people per side.
Used in diners, restaurants and nightclubs to create a more intimate social setting with privacy.
Why use DeFrae Contract Furniture?
DeFrae create bespoke seating specifically for hospitality or office environments.
We recommend only the strongest fabrics including leather, faux leather and velvets with stringent rub tests.
All fabrics recommended are fire proofed and flame resistant. We only use CMHR (Crib5 foam) which pass all UK hospitality fire regulation standards.
