Café furniture, not surprisingly is one of the most important purchases that you will make when opening a new café, bar or bistro. You want to make sure that the cafe tables and chairs matches the décor or the ambiance that you want to achieve in your restaurant or café to create a warm and welcoming place for people to eat and drink their coffee. Many people know about café tables and chairs and their functions (I would be very surprised if you didn’t!) however when you mention poseur tables and barstools, they may know what they are, but don’t know why they can be quite useful. This blog aims to outline their function.

First and foremost poseur tables are designed to be a more casual form of furniture. They are usually around 1100mm high so you can have a drink whilst standing and conversing. This is ideal for bar areas where you may not have enough space for chairs so they can help save much needed space.

Barstools are always used with poseur tables, for the simple reason that they are taller. One of the great things about poseur tables when used in conjunction with café tables and chairs and other forms of café furniture, then it can give a unique look to the area by breaking up the environment and creates more dynamic atmosphere.

Just like café tables and chairs, there are many different types of poseur tables and barstools. These include outdoor furniture, including rattan barstools and aluminium barstools as well as solid wood tables and stools. Many of the indoor café tables that feature on Café Reality have a poseur table option, so you should have no problem in trying to match the café tables and chairs to your poseur tables and barstools.

Plastic café furniture is becoming ever more popular as more and more restaurant or café owners are deciding to replace their outdoor furniture with plastic instead of the standard aluminium. Plastic is available in a wide range of colours, very resistant to all types of weather and is usually made as one piece so can last a lot longer over time compared to aluminium furniture.

The design of plastic furniture is more versatile than other materials use and in a saturated industry, this is very important. Furniture design is very important in eateries as this can help create an atmosphere and also a huge part of the look.

There is a new range of café furniture that has been manufactured in Italy and offers a unique take on the plastic bar stool and poseur table. The range is called Armillaria and has been designed by Odorado Fioravanti and manufactured by Plust Collection. These funky plastic furniture items are based around a mushroom style with the table base and base of the chairs fitting together and forming a sprout at the bottom.

The word Armillaria is the scientific name for a common species of fungi. This mushroom can be found in areas such as woods and the project is a reflection on vegetal shapes, in particularly their structure and how they look.

Due to a recent request that I had to try and source a coffee table from a previous blog, I decided to find some other interesting coffee tables to show not only the importance of how they can create character to your office or cafe design but to also show you that there are some very interesting and unique designs out there.

Coffee tables, like reception desks and other reception furniture as well as cafe furniture are very important as the reception area or lounge area in a cafe is the first impression that your potential clients or customers get when coming to your office or cafe. Once you have selected your sofas, tub chairs or beam seating, cafe furniture etc… in your reception area, it is then time to think carefully about what sort of coffee table you are going to buy.

Below are some pictures of some very interesting and unique coffee tables that might appeal to you to either compliment your existing office furniture or new office furniture or perhaps even in your cafe or restaurant and even your own home:

1 Oak veneer coffee table

This has a contemporary design and a rich dark oak veneer finish. The knotted shape adds an elaborate artistic feature and this coffee table is built to last. Designed by Kinoguerin the table has a semi-gloss finish and has white edging to complete the look.

2 Aqua square aquarium coffee table

This aquarium come coffee table and will look great in any reception as there is a 25 gallon fish tank in the base of the table. It can provide an interesting feature to any reception area and as you probably might have guessed, fish are not included.

3 Touch sensitive coffee table

A touch sensitive coffee table that has an underlying LED light system that lights up an area when something is placed on it. This can be turned off however when not in use.

There are so many ranges of café furniture including café tables and café chairs that you can be easily confused as to what type to buy. Café furniture is often the biggest investment you can make and you will always want some that will look great in your café/bistro as well as stand the test of time. A question that you firstly need to ask yourself is how you make use of the space you have. If you don’t include enough café tables and café chars then your business might suffer and you won’t get as many covers as you might be able to get. Have too many café tables and you will find that your restaurant is too crowded and the ambiance will be compromised.

If you have an outdoor area this can be equally challenging as you may find it not only hard to get the quantities of the café furniture right, but finding outdoor furniture that suits the décor of your café may be just as hard. We at Online Reality Ltd would recommend that you take a look at Werzalit table tops for your outdoor and indoor needs. The advantage of this is that you can match the tables inside your café with the outside without having to worry about your café table tops getting damaged by the outdoor elements.

Werzalit table tops are available in a wide range of finishes from solid colours and wood effect finishes to picture and custom made designs that can include your company logo. Werzalit table tops are not only built to withstand all weather conditions, they also have a joint less surface that is bonded to the core. The table tops are also scratch and heat resistant and are insensitive to hot cigarette ash. The tops are easy to clean and very hygienic as well as very robust, so if you are looking to furnish your café then we would recommend you take a look at these.