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Contract, what we do

Discover more about the projects and partners that have helped our contract sales team become so fast and efficient. First find out more about how - and where - our products are made.

Contract, what we do

Giraffe, Soho

Our Canteen Utility Chair can also be spotted in the Soho branch of Giraffe, thanks to our work with the specialist team at SCP Contracts.
 
 

Giraffe, Soho

Canteen restaurants

Our tables and chairs enable thousands to enjoy great British food. They also helped Canteen win Best multiple site at the Restaurant and Bar Design Awards.
 
 

Canteen restaurants

Twentytwentyone

UK stockist for our hook and knob, table and chair. Specialists in contemporary, classic, licensed, original modern design furniture, lighting and accessories, from the 20th and 21st centuries, hence the name. 

twentytwentyone

Neo-utility

We're honoured to partner with this Brooklyn-based design distributor that works with products that bring, in its own words, function, beauty and pleasure. 

neo-utility

Sustainability

Resources are precious, so we build our products to last. On top of that, our chair parts are replaceable; our plywood, sustainable.
 

Sustainability

MOMA, Malmo, Sweden

Architects Tham and Videgard Arkitekter asked for 80 Canteen Utility Chairs in orange stained ash for the Swedish MoMA café in Malmo. We said 'ja'.
 
 

MOMA, Malmo, Sweden

Kirk Balk Community College

We learned a lot from working with project architects, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, and graphic design consultants, Studio Myerscough, to deliver bespoke Canteen tables and chairs.
 

Kirk Balk Community College

SCP Contracts

We partnered the lovely team at SCP Contracts to get our Canteen Utility Chair into a Giraffe. The Soho branch of the restaurant chain, not the animal. That would have been silly.  

SCP Contracts

Smallpond

Big fish, furniture and product designer, Paul Valentine, founded this company in 2005 to represent comtemporary design in the US. Paul specifies furniture like ours, as well as designing his own. 

smallpond

Testing

All our products are fit for contract use. Thery're as at home in hospitals, schools and restaurants, as they are in homes.
 

Testing

Channel 4

We worked with project architects Sheppard Robson and contract furniture dealer, Coexistence, to create a new stacking table for the Channel 4 canteen.
 
 

Channel 4

Children's hospital

We’re proud our colourful furniture will help cheer up the dining area of the wonderful Royal London Children’s Hospital, through Vital Arts and Studio Myerscough.
 

Children's hospital

Coexistence

Saves its clients time and money by supplying comprehensive furniture packages through its network of over 100 manufacturers: hard won over 30 years. We worked with Coexistence to create a new stacking table for Channel 4. 

coexistence

Conran contracts

Supplies furniture and lighting to architects, designers and corporate clients. Has provided imaginative, practical and cost-effective solutions since 1990. And doesn't Conran look great in this pic? Happy Birthday, Sir Terence (he was 80 last October). 

conran contracts

Made here

80% of our materials come from UK companies. The remainder come from ones in Europe, nearer to our sustainable plywood forests.
 

Made here

BBC

Our Utility Chair is already comfortable. So we can only assume Auntie likes to keep people waiting, since she asked for an upholstered version
 
 

BBC

Canteen Covent Garden

We're showcasing our new chair and furniture in Canteen's latest branch, in Covent Garden's glass-covered building. If you fancy visiting, don't hang about - it's the market's first 'restaurant in residence' and is only there till spring 2012.

Canteen Covent Garden

Viaduct

 

Sole UK agents for many sought-after names like Bensen, e15, Maarten Van Severen, Maruni, Montis, Pastoe and Zeus but can source and supply most contemporary designers and manufacturers

viaduct