Tables and chairs for breakout rooms, staff canteens and small cafes, chosen so the heights work together. Seating runs from the Nest Loop and Nest Edge stacking chairs to the Marlow bistro chair, and the tables cover Italia square coffee and poseur tops on cross bases plus Impulse round and square coffee tables on metal frames. A matched set avoids the usual headache of a chair that sits too low under a poseur top. There is more choice in the wider tables and cafe and bistro seating listings if you need to mix.
Choosing cafe and bistro furniture
Match the seat to the table first. A coffee or dining height top wants an ordinary chair such as the Marlow or a Nest, while a poseur table like the Italia square needs a stool with a footring, and those live under bar and poseur tables and the stool listings. Allow roughly 300mm between seat top and table top for legroom, and note that a cross base keeps the corners clear so an extra chair can be pulled in.
Then think about how often the room changes shape. Stacking is the quiet hero of a staff room: chairs from stacking chairs pile away in minutes when the space doubles as a training area. The other mistake is treating a breakout table as an occasional table when people are really eating lunch at it, so choose a wipe clean top and a base weighted enough that nobody tips it. Round tops seat two or three and read as informal, square tops line up far more neatly along a wall.
Fitting out the rest of the room
Most breakout areas want a soft corner as well as hard seating, so look at sofas and armchairs or the wider soft seating range for the informal end. The Italia tables listing carries the same base through, bistro and cafe tables covers shapes not shown here, and for a high table where people perch with a coffee, add Harlestone stools.
Breakout furniture for offices in Ipswich, Colchester and beyond
Office Masters is the online arm of Neil Andrew Office Solutions, a family business working out of Edison Close on Ransomes Europark in Ipswich. Neil started alongside his father Malcolm in the 1980s and relaunched under his own name in 2017. Cafe and breakout schemes leave the Ipswich base for Sudbury, Haverhill, Colchester and Felixstowe most weeks.
Free standard delivery covers UK mainland addresses and typically lands within five working days, with a next working day option for a fixed date. Chairs and table bases come flat packed, so add pre-build and installation if you would rather walk into a finished room. Send a sketch with your seat count, or ring 01473 464644, and we will work out how many covers fit.
