Materials & Production

When you hear the term contract furniture, it refers to furnishing designed for spaces that work all day long: hotels, […]

In a hotel room, glass appears in four or five places, and in at least three of them it can

The difference between a delivery that runs smoothly and one that burns two days of a fitting crew’s time comes

In the common areas of a hotel, corrected-grain cowhide leather with a pigmented finish lasts ten to fifteen years, contract-grade

Unprotected brass left bare turns honey-coloured in six to twelve months in a dry interior and within a few weeks

A lemon left for thirty seconds on Bianco Carrara marble leaves a dull mark, and no impregnating treatment can prevent

A deep matt lacquer, measured at around 5-8 GU at 60 degrees, holds fingerprints more than a 25 GU satin

The real wood on a veneered door is often just six tenths of a millimetre thick. Underneath sits an MDF

The inspection is the moment the commission changes hands. Once the sign-off report is signed with no reservations, risk passes

A wardrobe door in a room sold 70 per cent of the year gets opened and closed between two thousand

In a hospitality property, only one type of wallpaper lasts: vinyl on a non-woven backing, weighing between 250 and 400

A hotel room piece of furniture doesn’t die because of the panel. It dies because of the edging, which swells

A general contractor signs a single contract with a fixed price and one delivery date, and from that point they

A furniture bill of quantities is the document that lets you compare two quotes without taking anything on faith: same

In a hotel furniture tender, price accounts for between 20 and 30% of the total score: everything else is decided

For hotel furniture, the most honest answer is: engineered panels for the structure of the furniture, solid wood for the

Hotel furniture needs contract-grade hardware: hinges tested for at least 80,000 opening cycles, full-extension drawer runners with a 30 to

A contract furniture supplier is chosen on five checkable criteria: a single point of contact from survey to final inspection,

A hotel furniture specification must state, for every element, materials with thicknesses, finishes with codes, hardware with brand and test

Panelling pays off in hotel rooms when it has to solve several problems at once: it protects the walls at

Under 15-20 rooms, with repeated room types and no category change, the manufacturer’s technical design usually covers what’s needed, from

A mock-up room is a room fitted out with the final furniture and tried out on site before the rest

In a 40-room hotel, refitting fixed furniture costs roughly 3,500 to 9,000 euros per room. Well-built furniture stays in service

Hotel carpet wears out from the inside. Sand left in the pile after vacuuming with a plain wand works as

A blackout curtain in a hotel room needs to overhang the window recess by 12-15 cm on each side, overlap

The word scratch-resistant, in a spec, is only as good as the numbers next to it. Four technical data sheet

The reference thresholds exist, and here they are: from 25,000 Martindale cycles upwards for seating in guest rooms, from 40,000

Five materials cover almost all the furniture in a hospitality property, and they are distinguished above all by the thickness

A decor for melamine-faced panels stays in a supplier’s commercial range, as an order of magnitude, for seven to ten

Well-built contract furniture has a theoretical working life of around 12 to 15 years. Whether it actually lasts 8 years

When someone asks “how long until you deliver?”, they are really asking for the sum of eight separate stages: survey,

A furniture replacement project in an open hotel is made up of interlocking parts: a block of 4-8 rooms isolated

Half past nine in the morning, in the manager’s office of a three-star hotel on the coast. On the laptop

In a hotel built between the 1960s and 1980s, the typical gap between the dimension drawn on the floor plan

A wardrobe in a hotel room gets opened 15 or 20 times a day, by different people, with different force,