Why this dining chair earns its place
Bolero's Perth collection does the thing wood-effect furniture is supposed to do: give a café or pavement seating area the warmth of timber without any of the maintenance headaches that come with the real thing. Each chair in this pack of two is built from powder-coated steel, finished in a brown, wood-effect colourway that reads as timber from across the room but shrugs off rain, UV and the daily knocks of service.
That powder-coated steel construction is the whole point. Bolero rate the Perth chair for indoors and outdoors, so it can live on the pavement through a lunch service and come inside for the evening without the finish suffering — the coating is there specifically to resist the damage rain and UV exposure cause to untreated furniture. Slip-resistant foot plugs on the base protect indoor flooring when the chairs are moved inside, so the same chair can do double duty across a mixed indoor and outdoor floor plan.
Where this chair earns its keep is in how it handles being moved. It folds, and it's supplied fully assembled, so there's no build time before service and no awkward flat-pack chair taking up back-of-house space. Folded down, it stacks, which matters more than it sounds on a tight pavement frontage or in a store cupboard that's already full of everything else a busy site needs. At 525 × 570 × 845mm and a gross weight of 4.19kg, it's light enough for one member of staff to fold, carry and stack without help — useful when a wet forecast means the whole terrace needs to come in at short notice.
