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The colour of the year 2018 is Ultra Violet which is a fantastic vibrant shade which will cheer up even the dreariest day.  At Pub Stuff we’re embracing the purple and thinking about what other wonderful shades we can pair with it to create interesting, comfortable and beautiful pubs, clubs, restaurants and hotels.

The fabric in these photos is from the Sunbury Carnaby Velvet range and perfectly sums up the Ultra Violet spectrum using a vivid citrus shade to compliment the smooth purple. Customer comfort is guaranteed with the Pub Stuff Lisbon comfy chair which is sturdy and robust but elegant enough to please the most discerning customer.  The traditional ‘weak’ point at the back leg has been eliminated in the Pub Stuff construction as the leg continues right to the top of the frame – ideal for the challenging environment of the leisure and hospitality trade.

Lime is traditionally paired with purple as it seems to bring it alive, such as here at the Cow and Telescope which is also showcasing an amazing animal print on the Pub Stuff Luigi chairs and bar chairs. Comfort is assured for all the customer here!

The funky capuchin monkey fabric on these Luigi Bar chairs add a quirky and fun element to the mix of purple and green giving this a tropical feel- ideal for this modern cocktail bar. Adding the plain darker green velour seat pad makes this a practical option too ensuring the spot which gets the most wear is less likely to show the normal signs of wear and tear associated with a busy high street venue.

Just a stones throw shade away from the colour of the year are some of the chairs upholstered today in the Pub Stuff upholstery workshop. Chosen from the Panaz Atmosphere range in Azure our customers are thrilled with the result and right on-trend too!

Latest Colour Trends 2018

This modern palette of colours translates from the metropolis outside to your stylish interior so easily, ensuring your space looks fabulous.

Varying shades of mid-dark greys will have a calming effect with the darker shades absorbing light and sound enhancing the cosiness.

Turn up the scheme by introducing different textures perhaps with animal skins or metallics.

The final element is the splash made by a mustard mellow yellow in fabrics, papers and accessories.

There is a timeless feel to leather furniture in general and to the Chester style in particular.  It’s a style that’s never out of fashion and always incredibly popular with our customers.  The luxurious, generous dimensions add a Wow factor to any venue and now there’s a twist to the Chester story:

Pub Stuff’s new Jesterfield creates a storm of interest and envy wherever we show it and brings a smile to everyone’s face, which is only enhanced when you realise you can get their hands on such an impressive piece for only £699. Two distinct colourways using multi coloured leathers The Jesterfield is a game changer and a head turner!

Perfect partners are hard to find but there’s no doubt the Jesterfield has found its soul mate in the spectacular Spitfire Chair.  Coordinating in shades of real leather: Vintage Red, Blue, Green or Chestnut, to match the multiple colours in its big brother the Jesterfield: the Spitfire style defies it’s great value price tag of just £259.  With hand placed studs at the front and a fluted distressed leather back this little chair is a joy to look at and a pleasure to sit on.

Whether it’s a Clubhouse, Wine Bar, Country Pub, Mess Bar or Reception the pairing of the Leather Jesterfield and Spitfire chairs are bound to impress.

2018 design trends are already coming to the fore with concept schemes seeking new inspiration from nature with rustic finishes including materials such as wood, clay, marble, copper, velvet and tweed. Together with countryside shades of deep brown, rich reds and burnt orange.

Layers of monochrome, especially Black and White accented with splashes of vibrant colour are also expected to feature (layers of neutral appear to be too mundane for 2018!).  Vintage style furniture with metal detail and a return to retro florals and botanicals are strong statements for the coming year.

With these trends in mind our customers are increasingly requesting some of the newer additions to the Pub Stuff range.

Rustic distressed solid wood table tops are particularly popular as they are supplied in sizes to accommodate premium dining offers with the round being slightly larger than usual at 760mm diameter, the square at 760x760mm and the rectangle efficiently sitting alongside at 1200x760mm.  The plank effect and soft Mid-Oak finish conjure quality and a look that has evolved over time.  Pair the tops with traditional Verona Cast bases or the substantial and stylish Milan in black.  Or take the look to the countryside with a painted Boston or Stowe base evoking Aga country kitchen chic.

Wooden chairs with metal details such as the Vintage chair and the Cambridge fit beautifully with this design trend and our customers can tap in quickly as the chairs are in stock and available for immediate delivery.

Exclusive Soft touch wool upholstery in Moon Aspen Grey tartan can instantly transform a dated look into something warm and inviting while offering extreme comfort encouraging longer stays and increased customer spend.

According to Elle Home the results for the coming year are in…..

Of all the design trends we look forward to most in the coming year, color holds a steady spot at the top of our list. After all, it sets the tone for what furniture we buy, what decor we invest in, and the overall mood for that design year.

Sherwin-Williams predicts that 2018 will embody the spirit of contemporary life with their three colour palettes: Affinity, Connectivity, and Sincerity. Each one is inspired by the collective culture of the moment — from fashion to technology — and captures the aura of a year that is bound to be full of progress.

Read on for the inspiration behind the brand's 36 colour predictions for the year ahead, and maybe even get a jumpstart!

Affinity

This colour story of striking blue, animated fuchsia, and stabilizing brown, the Affinity palette is set to celebrate the connection of people and places.

“We’re remapping our sense of community, landlocked cities are becoming global hubs of crafts and gastronomy,” says Wadden, Sherwin-Williams' Director of Marketing. “Home and car sharing, as well as e-learning, have created a culture of everyday nomadism and the wanderlust-obsessed.”

Affinity is just like any good getaway: relaxed but full of unexpected fun. Decorate accordingly with a base of neutral browns and vibrant accent colors in an array of pinks and blues

Connectivity

The Connectivity palette draws from innovations in tech, including pixelated oranges, digital blues and greens, and high-def yellow.

“In Silicon Valley, Austin, Berlin and Beijing, techies are the new hippies, full of breakthrough ideas and utopian ideals,” Wadden says. “Connectivity is modern and playful, bringing in dark watery tones of blue that are balanced with neutrals, warm yellow and energetic purples.”

Sincerity

Minimalism isn't going anywhere in 2018. However, it is taking on a less structured look.

“With the Sincerity palette, silence is no longer empty, but instead is rare and rich with possibility,” says Wadden. “Sincerity is about mindful living and creating an environment to disconnect and recharge. Soft, washed neutrals, greens and sanctuary pinks work together to create harmony.”

Step away from the stark light and dark contrasts and embrace colour fluidity. This palette is all about ditching harsh lines for sandy browns, muted greys, and hazy greens that harmonize perfectly. Don't stress too much about sticking to a strict colour scheme, but instead let one organic shade blend into the next.

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Natural softer, earthy colours are all set to take interior design schemes into the next year and what could be more ‘natural’ for pubs, clubs and restaurants than to choose colours that blend and are harmonious together.  For a couple of reasons. Firstly, that they suit our customers and our buildings.  In the main our building have a sense of historical reference and a muted palette will enhance and balance these natural elements to our existing framework.  The second reason is slightly more practical – as business people we don’t want to be refurbishing – repainting or re-financing every time fashion changes.  Our colour schemes need to stand the test of time, looking fresh, tasteful and current for a good while. Happily the fashionistas for 2018 agree!!

The annual ‘It’ll soon be Christmas’ time has arrived and together with it comes the anticipation of a festive bonanza for our pubs, clubs and restaurants as customers head out for office parties and festive family halfway present swaps.

The headache has started for some venues- thinking about how to accommodate all those extra bums on seats which should be a reason for unabashed celebrating but of course comes with a certain amount of trepidation as customers at this time of the year become even more demanding.

One of the biggest bug bears is either not being able to sit altogether or the tables being such differing sizes that the whole party looks like a mish mash and there’s a real danger of losing all the cutlery between the gaps!

It’s a relief for venues to know a solution is close to hand. Pub Stuff tables naturally butt up together giving seamless results to extra long tables for seating parties.  Whether this is in a function room or as part of your main bar just pull them together and decorate like Martha Stewart!

All Pub Stuff tables are held in stock at our huge stock warehouse near Banbury for central distribution nationwide. Quick turnaround and bargain prices mean those extra covers are easily achieved and beautifully resolved.

I’m pretty sure everyone knows that an Antique is generally something over 100 years old. At least that’s’ the general understanding.  But Retro and Vintage are words commonly banded about when it comes to trying to describe a style of furniture design and the lines here are a little more blurred.

A Vintage piece normally has a specific age line alongside such as a Vintage 1960’s Mercedes and the word itself comes from the French word vendage meaning the ‘grapes picked during a season’ or a secondary definition of a ‘period of origin or manufacture’. Ideally this would mean the very best examples of a piece reflecting a period- something you could look at and ‘date’ by the very style of its shape or perhaps even its colouring. A precious reminder of an era.

Retro furniture does not need to look old fashioned...

Retro can be a bit more fluid but essentially shoudn’t just look old fashioned or out dated which is altogether less attractive. For example, deliberately including a paisley brown floral wallpaper in a 1970’s retro scheme (cool) is not the same as not having redecorated since 1979 (yuk)! Sometimes ironic, it’s a difficult look to pull off and takes a confident operator to reflect a retro style as it often refers to high fashion from a period; which can induce a love it or hate it reaction depending on how your customers feel about the 1980’s or 1990’s for example, or whether indeed it has any relevance to their lives at all.

"Vintage style furniture is all the rage"

In my mind Vintage probably predates the 1960’s, with the high style and ‘Mary Quant’ geometrics easing style into a Retro look. However, that’s just me!

Of course, with age comes wear and tear, and in the current climate it’s not OK to have chairs looking stylishly distressed but unsafe to sit on. So, furniture manufacturers such as Pub Stuff are concentrating on replicating Vintage and Retro looks using modern manufacturing techniques designing ‘vintage’ and ‘retro’ style features into products to allow operators to create the ‘feel ‘ without the worry of furniture being unserviceable or not conforming to modern fire regulations.

Spending in the UK leisure sector, including eating and drinking out in bars, cafes and restaurants, was driven by 18 to 34-year olds in the last quarter of 2016 reports Deloitte. These millennials are showing increased consumer confidence and follows a period of favourable conditions such as low interest rates, low inflation and low unemployment figures, leaving them feeling generally positive with enough disposable income to justify spending on non-essential leisure activities.

Deloitte continued “It is reassuring to see that younger consumers have not been put off by political uncertainties, and have continued to spend their money on leisure activities, such as dining out.”

Busy lifestyles contribute to eating out and the choices of venue are endless:

Cafes have traditionally evolved from the French word for Coffee and serving coffee often remains the primary focus supplemented by snack food or light bites.  The massive increase in the number of outlets describing themselves as Coffee Bars has encroached into the Café estate reflecting our ongoing and ever more complex need for coffee in all its guises. The delicate merger of these two descriptive entities is often only delignated by the visual style of the venue.

As venues capitalise and make the very most of the time they are open, many now ‘morph’ from a day time to an evening venue. Dimming the lights or putting candles on tables, changing the music playlists and perhaps serving more substantial or complex meals.

From Cafe to Café Bar!

The furniture is an important feature for letting your customers understand your offer. The vintage industrial concept of interior is just perfect for this type of venue. Appealing to the demographic section of the population showing growth in spending, it is both stylish for daytime eating and transforms in cool Britannia for an early doors evening trade for our millennials.

Zoned soft seating areas for relaxing with friends and family are easily achieved using the Pub Stuff Lisbon or Devon tub chairs upholstered in fabrics and leathers combining cheekily with the Spitfire chair and Jesterfield sofa to add zest and zing to any scheme.  Eclectic mixing of wooden chairs such as the Ohio or Chapel chair with new metal additions like the Xavier or Soho chairs add interest and ensure a look that has evolved over time rather than slaps you in the face as ‘just refurbed!’. Shabby chic without the hassle of sourcing individual items and with the surety of commercial grade (often called ‘contract grade’) furniture.

Tables to complement this look range from the farmhouse chunky tables with painted bases or Rustic distressed table tops on cast bases such as the Verona or Milan.

Raw natural wall, ceiling and floor finishes are best here with bare brick and original tiles and floorboards left for all to see.  Large steel, copper or cast black station lights complete the look.

If you would like us to help you create this type of style – ask about the Pub Stuff Proplanner design service.

The chesterfield sofa is not just a piece of furniture but a piece of history.

There are many opinions on the origin of the word "chesterfield" as a description of the item we now know as such. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the use of the word chesterfield was already used in England in the 1800's to describe a leather couch.

It is believed that Lord Phillip Stanhope, the 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773), commissioned the first leather chesterfield settee with its distinctive deep buttoned, quilted leather upholstery and low seat base. Aside from being a much-admired politician and writer, patron of Voltaire, the Earl was a known trendsetter. Apparently the Earl requested a local craftsman to construct a piece of furniture that would allow a gentleman to sit upright in the utmost of comfort allowing sitting without wrinkling the garment. This was the original purpose of the chesterfield sofa with its characteristic deep buttoned upholstery, rolled arms, equal back and arm height and nail head trim. There has never been any solid confirmation of this noble beginning; however, this namesake is certainly appropriate. Lord Stanhope was a noted writer of letters to his illegitimate son, extolling all method of manners and morals. The Chesterfield sofa is certainly a refined and mannerly example of seating.

Legend has it that in March 24th, 1773 when the nobleman passed away his very last words were directed to his personal butler. The old Earl didn’t forget his good manners while he was in his deathbed so when a friend came to visit him he ordered to his manservant: "Give Mr. Dayrolles a chair" just before expiring. The servant took Lord Stanhope at his word and waving away protests, insisted that Stanhope’s godson Dayrolles, a budding young diplomat who had come to enquire after the elderly man’s health, take the armchair with him. After carrying the heavy chair back home, Mr. Dayrolles had a proper look at the chair: a magnificent piece of work in deep brown leather, indented with large, deeply set buttons. The years of wear had served to lend the item an even more attractive appearance. It was an ageless and timeless masterpiece.

After that episode we have to imagine Dayrolles acquaintances commissioning similar chairs for themselves as a natural reaction to the great admiration caused by the first chesterfield armchair.

The characteristic leather sofa retained its distinguished charm over the years, but remained firmly ensconced in the Gentlemen’s Clubs of London for a long time. All the colour schemes and successive models (sofas, settees, window seats, rocking chairs, etc.) that have been designed over the last 200 years are all directly inspired by the original.

Successfully exported trough the colonies of the British Empire by the officials of the Royal Army (U.S.A, Canada, Australia…) it soon became a worldwide peerless emblem of British style. The chesterfield sofa conjures images of formally attired gentlemen sequestered in a dark panelled study, sipping brandy and smoking cigars. The Victorian era saw the chesterfield as the key piece in living rooms, where gentlemen relaxed while their wives sat in chairs crafting needlepoint. Since the 19th century it has also been linked with Freudian psychoanalysis, as Sigmund Freud originally used a sofa during his hypnosis sessions with patients.

Throughout the years, chesterfield sofas have graced the palaces of royalty, prominent business offices, hotels, restaurants, gentleman's clubs and luxurious private homes.? The chesterfield is synonymous with elegance and class in interiors all over the world, of every architectural and decorating style.? Regardless of what it represents to many, the chesterfield steadfastly remains the sofa that embodies the perfect blend of comfort and sophistication.

What was once a status symbol of the elite is now a much sought-after addition to the modern home or business. History notwithstanding, Chesterfield sofas will remain forever the epitome of luxury, class and style. Nowhere will you find a more recognized, timeless example of furniture. Chesterfields have been popping up in home decor blogs and magazines for the last decades, some genuinely classic and others re-imagined in mid-century or more modern styles. What was old is new again. Adopted by antiques enthusiasts looking for a retro look but also by rock and pop groups, the vintage icon is reborn in a wide range of editions.

Whatever the future of this harmonious courtship of refined structure and luxurious comfort, the chesterfield sofa is sure to remain in demand for centuries to come.

Source:  http://www.londongallery.net/en/content/8-history-of-chesterfield

So grab yourself a bit of history and affordable quality with the chesterfield range from Pub Stuff. This range is happy at home in the most traditional of settings but equally looks amazing in modern clubs and restaurants.  We’ve seen a real upsurge in this styles’ popularity as the craze for vintage tinged industrial and distressed interiors continues.  It just goes to show when there’s a classic style in town everybody wants it.

A warm welcome feeling

When I walked through the door of the newly refurbished Ben Jonson pub at Weston on the Green Oxfordshire I was greeted with a wide smile from the manager and an offer of ‘would you like a coffee, we’re just trying out the new machine’.  Straight away it’s easy to see why this pub has seen  phenomenal success over it’s opening few days.  I was there just to take some photos of the interior as Pub Stuff had supplied all the new furniture but received a welcome as though I was the best customer they had ever seen!

"For a split moment i felt as though i was the best customer they had ever seen"

Pub Makeover and redesign

The pub has received a beautiful makeover from new paint work throughout, and redecoration of every area including the loos.  The furniture was carefully chosen to reflect the character period charm of the building with its nooks and crannies but given contemporary stylish finishes including planked table tops and geometric fabrics.  The thoughtful zoning creates a stand-alone bar area with low stools and traditional Chapel chairs, a beautiful snug complete with leather Chesterfield Wing chairs and a comfortable restaurant.

Modern contemporary pub furniture added to the experience

The chairs are comfortable most with padded backs and seats, with the Lisbon comfy chairs looking particularly attractive upholstered in coordinating and contrasting fabrics and leathers giving a style that looks as though it has evolved over time in an eclectic manner.  A mixture of round tables and square sided modular tables ensure each space is used to its maximum potential both in terms of the aesthetic quality and the operational seating arrangements. Painted table bases accentuate the country kitchen effect of the scheme.

We wish the Ben Jonson every success, it’s been a pleasure to be a part of this stylish project.