Eight Harlestone stools in four shapes: round, square, rectangular and curved, each offered in a single tone or a two tone upholstery. The curved ones are the interesting part, since three or four of them arc into a circle or a gentle S depending on how you set them out, so the same stools make a huddle one week and a run of perches along a wall the next. All of them are low, backless and light enough for one person to shift.
Choosing stools for a breakout space
Stools are for short stays. With no back and no arms, most people are happy for twenty minutes or so, which is right for a waiting area, a quick catch up or somewhere to perch with a laptop, and wrong for anything that runs to an hour. Seat heights sit at normal chair level rather than bar level, so they pair with standard tables, not poseur tops, and they tuck away flat when the room is needed for something else.
Think about layout before colour. Curved units only look deliberate in numbers: one on its own reads as an odd shape, three make a clear arc that faces people towards each other. Two tone upholstery breaks up a long run without buying two products, and a darker seat with lighter sides stays looking clean in a busy corridor. Where people will settle in properly, mix in soft seating that has a back to lean against.
Building out the whole area
Stools rarely stand alone. Modular seating shapes the perimeter, and the Mawsley modular range adds backed units in the same spirit. Put breakout and shaped tables at laptop height beside them, or bistro and cafe tables where food is involved. A pair of sofas or armchairs anchors the corner, and because hard breakout areas get loud quickly, acoustic solutions are worth costing in at the same time rather than later.
Breakout seating around Ipswich and East Anglia
Office Masters is the online shop of Neil Andrew Office Solutions, the family run business Neil operates from Edison Close at Ransomes Europark in Ipswich. It began with his father Malcolm in the 1980s and was relaunched under Neil's name in 2017. We supply and install breakout, office and reception furniture across Suffolk, Essex, Norfolk and the rest of the country.
Stools arrive built and are simple to place, so most customers take the free UK mainland delivery inside five working days and set them out themselves. We have fitted breakout areas in Ipswich and Stowmarket, up to Norwich and down to Colchester, and can bring fabric options along if you are matching an existing scheme. Send a photo of the space or ring 01473 464644 and we will suggest how many curved units make the shape you are after.
