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Around 1859 a steam bent timber frame chair, consisting of no more than six sections and a few screws, was developed in Austria by Michael Thonet. Thonet chairs (model No. 14) were sold in their millions worldwide. One of the first items of flat-pack furniture, Thonet cafe chairs were relatively low cost to produce and could also be shipped at low cost. With our expertise in Commercial Furniture, it's only right we know and love the Thonet No. 14 cafe chair - we can also supply it to our commercial furniture customers, however today this remarkable cafe chair costs over 500GBP each. We're very happy to introduce our new range of Cafe chairs, made in a similar style to the original Thonet cafe chair.

The old Kirkhouse Postura school chair was our first one-piece plastic chair. Postura soon developed into Postura+, achieving EN1729 and including a Ten Year Guarantee. We've seen Postura+ plastic chairs put under real stress in schools around the world (take a look at Kirkhouse Furniture facebook page for evidence). Few chairs compare to Postura+ classroom stacking chairs, we take a look at possibly the best school classroom chair ever developed.

Lynx stacking chair has been designed for conference and use in halls (including school halls, county halls etc). European guidelines regarding linking, require that rows of six chairs or more be linked. Almost all Kirkhouse chairs are available with various links as optional extras. We offer integral and detachable links, however our new Lynx conference chairs include a unique linking system that is sturdy and easy to use. We take a look at Lynx stacking chairs and consider the various models available from our online furniture shop.

As School furniture suppliers, we're very happy to introduce our commercial furniture - Bespoke Table Laminate service. We can reproduce almost any image in our table surface laminates, including school and business logo's. Design your very own school table laminate surface with Kirkhouse. Table top surfaces suitable for commercial use from our online furniture shop.