Lounge chair & armchair manufacturing
Lounge chair and armchair manufacturer for furniture brands and retailers.
A lounge chair is one object doing two jobs at once. The measurements that give it its shape are the same measurements that decide how it feels to sit in — which is why it cannot be designed and then made comfortable afterwards.
Furniship develops and manufactures lounge chairs and armchairs across upholstered, timber-frame, metal and mixed-material programmes, from Furniship-developed starting points or your own requirements.
The six that decide both
- Seat height
- Seat depth
- Back angle
- Arm height
- Seat-to-back
- Overall width
Lounge chairs and armchairs Furniship builds.
Fully upholstered
No frame on show. The silhouette is entirely a product of what is underneath the cover, and the cover has to hold it.
Exposed timber frame
Joinery that is part of the design. Where the frame shows, the finish on it is judged next to the upholstery rather than instead of it.
Metal frame
Section, weld and coating carrying a soft seat — two different industries meeting inside one product.
Mixed material
Timber and metal, or frame and shell, meeting at an interface the customer looks straight at from a seated position.
Low lounge
Lower, deeper, more reclined. Comfort is in the recline, and getting out of it again becomes a design decision.
Occasional & reading
More upright, shallower, easier to leave. A different comfort brief entirely, in the same category.
With arms
The armchair proper, where the arm is a defining element of the shape as well as a place to rest.
Sculptural
Shape-led pieces where the form is the reason the product exists — and where manufacturing decides whether it survives translation.
Swivel, rocking, footstool-paired and other programme-specific executions are developed the same way. Formats, dimensions, constructions, materials and finishes are developed around the requirements of the programme. The chairs shown are examples of the range, not its limit.
What publishes here per model
Individual models publish here once Furniship's product library and photography are in place. Nothing is listed until it is real, and no specification is written against a placeholder.
- Model or product number
- Overall dimensions
- Seat height
- Seat depth
- Overall width
- Frame
- Suspension & support
- Foam & fill
- Cover material
- Finish options
- Packing & cube
02Silhouette
The shape and the comfort are the same six decisions.
On a lounge chair there is no measurement that only affects how it looks and none that only affects how it feels. Move one and both move — which is why comfort cannot be added to a silhouette after the silhouette has been approved.
What it does to the shape
Sets how the chair sits in a room. Low reads as lounge; higher reads as occasional.
Seat height
What it does to the body
Decides how easily somebody gets into it, and how easily they get back out.
What it does to the shape
Changes the whole proportion. A deeper seat reads heavier and more horizontal.
Seat depth
What it does to the body
Decides whether the back supports the sitter or is simply somewhere behind them.
What it does to the shape
The line that defines the silhouette in profile more than any other.
Back angle
What it does to the body
Sets the posture, from upright to reclined. There is no neutral value.
What it does to the shape
Often the strongest single element of the shape, and the one that dates fastest.
Arm height & position
What it does to the body
Decides whether the arm supports at rest, or is an edge the elbow finds.
What it does to the shape
Where the two planes meet is where the chair reads as resolved — or does not.
Seat-to-back relationship
What it does to the body
The comfort profile itself: where support arrives in the lower back, and how firmly.
What it does to the shape
Presence. A lounge chair is often the widest single-seat object in the room.
Overall width
What it does to the body
Room to move inside the chair rather than only room to sit in it.
No value is published for any of these, because there is no correct one. The target is set by the programme — a low lounge chair for a hospitality range and an upright reading chair for a retail assortment are the same six decisions answered differently.
Comfort is a specification, not a house style.
Specification level
EntryVery premium
Furniship works across the range, from entry-level programmes to very premium specification. Where a programme sits is a commercial decision taken with the buyer, and it changes the answer to every variable below.
Foam density & layering
How firm the seat is at first contact and how it behaves after months of use are two different properties of the same build-up.
Suspension & support
What sits under the cushion decides how the seat holds its shape, and it is invisible in every photograph of the finished chair.
Depth, as a comfort decision
The same measurement §2 argued as a shape decision, met again from the other side — depth without back support is a chair people perch in.
Back support
Where support arrives, and how firmly. It is the difference between a chair for an hour and a chair for ten minutes.
Cover execution
Tension, seam placement and how the cover follows the form. A cover that fights the shape changes how the chair reads and how it feels.
Comfort and construction requirements are agreed as part of the quotation and the order, and confirmed on a physical sample rather than on a drawing. Furniship does not publish a single comfort standard, because a standard that suited every programme would suit none of them.
The more of the making you can see, the more of it is the design.
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Nothing on show
Fully upholstered. No structure is visible, so the silhouette is entirely the product of the build-up beneath the cover.
On show
The cover and the form it holds
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The frame, in timber
Joinery, section and finish become part of the product. An exposed frame is judged beside the upholstery, in the same light, by the same person.
On show
Joint quality, timber colour, finish consistency
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The frame, in metal
A different discipline with different failure modes. Weld quality has to survive finishing, and the coating sits close to both the floor and the eye.
On show
Section, weld, coating and colour
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Two structures meeting
Timber and metal, or frame and shell, both on show. The interface between them is a design decision that also has to be held to a tolerance.
On show
The junction, and how two materials are finished to agree
None of these is harder than the others in the abstract. What changes is where the difficulty sits — and on the chairs where more is on show, the difficulty sits somewhere the customer can see it.
05The sample
Does it feel the way it looks?
A drawing settles the shape and a render settles how it photographs. Neither can settle the thing a lounge chair is bought for, and there is no way to find out except by sitting in one.
What only the sample settles
Posture
Where the body actually ends up, as opposed to where the section drawing says it will.
Support
Whether the back arrives where it is needed, and whether the seat holds after twenty minutes rather than after two.
Comfort
The specified build-up, felt rather than described — the point at which a foam decision stops being a number.
Scale
How big the chair reads in a room. A lounge chair almost always reads larger in the flesh than on a drawing.
Material interaction
How the cover behaves over the form: where it tensions, where it relaxes, where a seam lands on a curve.
Visible construction
On an exposed frame, whether the joint and the finish look the way they were meant to look next to the upholstery.
A physical sample can be inspected at source or shipped to the customer before production, and the approved piece becomes the production standard for the order and for reorders. Timing depends on the product and construction and is confirmed per programme.
06Material
Changing the cover changes more than the colour.
A cover is not a skin applied to a finished chair. A heavier material sits differently over a curve, a leather takes a seam differently from a woven fabric, and either can change where a panel line has to fall for the chair to still read as the approved shape.
Fabric
Weave, weight and stretch change how the cover follows a form and where it needs to be eased rather than pulled.
Leather
A material with its own hide size, its own marks and its own behaviour on a curve. Panel layout is a leather decision before it is an aesthetic one.
Timber
Species and finish where the frame shows, matched to the cover rather than chosen beside it.
Metal
Section and coating on frames and bases, where colour and sheen sit next to a soft material and have to agree with it.
Foam & fill
The part nobody sees and everybody judges. Layering and fill type are specified per programme and confirmed on the sample.
Finishes
Timber finish, metal coating and cover treatment set per programme, and matched across every component of one chair.
Cover, frame material and finish are set per programme. Where a change affects seam placement, detailing or how the comfort reads, that is resolved during development rather than discovered on the first production run.
Three streams that have to become one object.
Structure
Frame produced and assembled — timber, metal or both — and prepared for whatever will be fixed to it.
Comfort package
Suspension and support fitted, then foam and fill built up to the approved specification.
Cover & material
Cover cut and prepared to the panel layout agreed for that material, with finish components ready.
Integration
The three come together on one frame. This is where a chair either arrives at the approved silhouette or does not, and where a cover that fights the form shows up for the first time.
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Finishing
Exposed frame, base and components finished so that everything visible on one chair agrees in colour and sheen.
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Approval & QC
Checked against the approved sample — construction and dimensions, upholstery and seams, finish, function where applicable, labels and packaging.
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Packing
Protected for the way a soft, shaped product actually travels, with the cover and any exposed frame protected differently.
Where the customer asks for it, Furniship takes full responsibility for the quality-control programme on the order — incoming materials, in-line checks, dimensions and construction, appearance and finish, packaging, labels and final pre-shipment inspection, with photographic reporting.
Furniture quality control08Which model applies
Whose chair the programme starts from.
How much the chair changes does not decide the model. Where the programme begins does.
A Furniship lounge chair
Private label & ODM
Adapt a developed chair — dimensions, comfort specification, frame material, cover, finish and packaging included. Adaptation can be extensive and it remains a private label programme.
Your own defined design
OEM
A drawing or specification of your own, engineered for production, sampled, and manufactured against the approved sample.
A concept or a requirement
Custom
A reference, a posture, a price position — developed with Furniship into a chair that does not exist yet.
09Quality control
What gets checked on a single seat.
The scope is the same programme Furniship runs on any order. What changes by category is where the risk sits — and on a lounge chair it sits in the places where a hard component and a soft one have to agree.
Construction & dimensions
Frame, joints and overall geometry against the approved sample rather than against a drawing.
Upholstery & seams
Tension, seam position and how the cover follows the form — the same judgement on every unit.
Finish
Colour and sheen consistent across upholstery, exposed frame and base on one chair, and between batches.
Function
Where the chair swivels, rocks or adjusts, that it does so as specified — checked before it is packed.
Labels & packaging
Correct, complete and applied as the programme requires, before the carton closes.
Final inspection
Pre-shipment, against the approved sample, with photographic reporting where the programme includes it.
10Buyer questions
What lounge chair buyers ask
- Can the dimensions change?
- Yes. Seat height, seat depth, back angle, arm position and overall width can all be adapted, on a Furniship-developed chair or on your own design. Because those measurements decide the comfort as well as the shape, they are agreed as part of development rather than applied afterwards.
- Can the comfort level change?
- Yes. Foam layering, suspension and support, seat depth and back support are specified per programme, and Furniship works from entry-level to very premium specification. Comfort and construction requirements are agreed as part of the quotation and confirmed on a physical sample.
- Can the frame or material construction change?
- Yes. Fully upholstered, exposed timber frame, metal frame and mixed-material constructions are all developed per programme. Where a frame is exposed, its finish is specified alongside the cover rather than after it.
- Can we use our own design?
- Yes. A defined design or drawing runs as an OEM programme: engineered for production, sampled, and manufactured against the approved sample.
- Can we start from a Furniship model?
- Yes. Starting from a Furniship-developed chair is a private label or ODM programme, and starting there does not limit how far the chair can move — dimensions, comfort, frame material, cover and finish are all open.
- Can the sample be shipped to us?
- Yes. A physical sample can be inspected at source or shipped to the customer before production, and the approved piece becomes the production standard. Timing depends on the product and construction and is confirmed per programme.
- What is the minimum order quantity?
- MOQs are set around the product and programme rather than one fixed threshold. They vary with construction, materials and the requirements of the programme itself.
- Can testing be arranged?
- Yes. Relevant product and material testing can be arranged through external laboratories where the destination market or programme requires it.
- Can branding and packaging be customised?
- Yes. Labelling, branding and packaging are set per programme, and are part of a private label execution rather than an addition to one.
Tell us how it should sit. We will work out the shape that does it.
The posture, the frame language, the price position and the market. A lounge chair is one object doing two jobs — and both of them are decided by the same six measurements.
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