Our Factory · Sancaktepe, Istanbul
HFC is a hotel furniture manufacturer, not a trading company. Guest room casegoods, seating, restaurant and banquet furniture, stone tops and metal work are produced in our own Istanbul plant — to your drawings, your finishes and your brand standard — and shipped to projects in 30+ countries.
30+
Years manufacturing
30+
Countries delivered
4–8
Week lead time
2-year
Structural warranty
Overview
Hotel Furniture Concept manufactures contract furniture for the hospitality industry from a single production facility in Sancaktepe, Istanbul, with a head office and showroom in Ataşehir on the Anatolian side of the city. We have been building for hotels for more than thirty years, and everything we quote is something we make.
That distinction matters more than it sounds. A large share of the companies presenting themselves as hotel furniture manufacturers in Turkey are trading houses: they take the order, place it with two or three workshops, and pass on whatever comes back. The specification survives or it does not, and when it does not there is nobody in the chain who can change a machine setting to fix it.
Because the factory is ours, a revision mid-production is a conversation on the shop floor rather than a renegotiation. Finish samples are cut from the same batches that will run in production. A wardrobe, a headboard, a desk and a minibar unit that must share one veneer actually share one veneer, because they are pressed in the same building in the same week.
Talk to our project teamHotel furniture manufacturing — at a glance
Factory
Eyupsultan Mah., Sancaktepe, Istanbul
Head office
Ataşehir, Istanbul — showroom and project office
Experience
30+ years manufacturing for hospitality
Production
Casegoods, upholstery, metal, stone, joinery
Seating standard
ANSI/BIFMA X5.4 public seating
Upholstery
EN 1021 / BS 7176 or CAL TB 117 by market
Customisation
Dimensions, finish, fabric, brand standard match
Export
FOB or CIF, 30+ countries
Warranty
2-year structural
Lead time
~4–8 weeks from approved samples
How We Work
01
We build it ourselves
Every piece on this page is produced in our Sancaktepe plant by our own teams. Nothing is bought in and rebadged.
02
Made to your project
Drawings, dimensions, finishes, fabrics and hardware are set by your specification, not by a standard product range.
03
Trade & contract only
We supply hotels, developers, interior designers, architects and contractors. No retail, no showroom sales, no online shop.
04
Delivered worldwide
We crate for export, load containers to your programme and ship FOB or CIF to 30+ countries.
Inside the Factory
Hotel furniture is not one trade. A single guest room brings together panel work, solid timber, upholstery, metal and stone, and each of those is a different department with different machines, different tolerances and different people.
The casegoods line is where most of a hotel order lives. Panels are cut on a beam saw from commercial-grade MDF and plywood, edged, drilled for hardware on CNC, then veneered, laminated or lacquered depending on the specification. Veneer is matched and pressed in-house, which is the only way to keep a run of two hundred wardrobes reading as one finish. Lacquer work goes through a spray line with controlled drying rather than being finished in the open.
The upholstery shop works from kiln-dried hardwood frames, doweled and corner-blocked, with webbing and serpentine or pocket springs depending on the piece. Foam is cut to profile in high-resilience grades, around 40 kg/m³ at 45 ILD for contract seating, and fabric is cut from the roll against a pattern rather than eyeballed. Sewing, upholstering and final inspection happen in sequence on the same floor.
Alongside them sit the trades most furniture suppliers subcontract and we do not: a metal shop for stainless and powder-coated steel frames, legs, trims and decorative screens, a stone workshop for marble, granite and quartz tops and vanities, and a joinery section for the fixed and made-to-measure work that has to fit a wall rather than stand in front of it.
Keeping those four disciplines under one roof is what makes a complete room possible. When the headboard, the bedside table, the desk, the luggage bench, the metal frame under it and the stone top on the vanity are made by four teams in one building, the interfaces between them are managed during production instead of discovered during installation.
Quality & Standards
Contract furniture is defined by what it has to survive, not by how it looks on delivery day. A hotel chair is sat in several thousand times a year by people who did not pay for it, cleaned with chemicals no domestic chair would see, and expected to hold its appearance until the next refurbishment cycle.
For seating, the reference standard is ANSI/BIFMA X5.4 for public and lounge seating, which tests the frame and joints under repeated load rather than under a single static weight. Residential furniture is not tested this way, which is why a domestic-grade chair placed in a lobby loosens at the joints within a season.
Upholstery is specified against the market the furniture is going to. European projects work to EN 1021 parts 1 and 2, the UK to BS 7176, and North America to CAL TB 117. These are not interchangeable, and a fabric certified for one is not automatically acceptable in another — naming the destination in the specification is what determines which certificate we produce.
Abrasion is the other half. Fabric positions in high-traffic public areas are specified from 50,000 Martindale upward, with 100,000+ for the hardest-worked seats, while guest room positions can sit lower because the use is lighter. Foam grade, frame construction and fabric rating are specified together, because a strong frame under a weak fabric still fails in three years.
Panel and surface work is checked for edge adhesion, moisture behaviour and finish hardness. Desk and vanity surfaces use high-pressure laminate, solid surface, quartz or sealed stone rather than domestic melamine, and lacquered and varnished surfaces are finished in conversion varnish or two-part polyurethane for scratch and chemical resistance.
What We Manufacture
Our output divides into three workshops that feed the same projects. Each category below has its own page with dimensions, specifications and model ranges.
casegoods · upholstery · contract seating
The core of the plant. Guest room casegoods, lobby and lounge seating, restaurant and banquet furniture, outdoor ranges and custom kitchen cabinetry — panel work, solid timber and upholstery produced to your drawings.
guest rooms · public areas · F&B · banquet · outdoor
See furniture categories →marble · granite · quartz · engineered stone
Our stone workshop cuts, profiles and polishes marble, granite and quartz for vanity tops, countertops, table tops, floor tiles and wall cladding — supplied loose or fitted to the furniture it belongs on.
vanities · countertops · tiles · cladding
Explore Stone Works →single source · sourced scope · logistics
Where a project wants the whole package rather than the furniture alone, we add the items we do not manufacture — mattresses, lighting, soft goods and OS&E — and consolidate everything into one delivery schedule.
mattresses · lighting · soft goods · OS&E
Explore FF&E Supply →01 — Guest Rooms
The repeating scope, and the one where manufacturing discipline shows up most clearly, because every error multiplies by the key count.
A hotel guest room is a matched set, not a collection of items. We produce bed bases and upholstered headboards, wardrobes with the hanging and safe arrangement the operator wants, luggage benches, writing desks and desk chairs, nightstands, minibar and TV console units, bathroom cabinetry and vanity units, and the wall panelling and mirror frames that tie them together. All of it runs on one finish programme, so the veneer on a wardrobe door matches the veneer on the desk on the opposite wall. Carcasses are commercial ply and MDF with sealed edges, drawer boxes run on soft-close hardware rated for contract use, and exposed corners are detailed to survive housekeeping trolleys. For properties with more than one room type, we produce each type as its own run while holding the finish and hardware common across all of them.
See guest room furniture →02 — Public Areas & F&B
Lower volume than the rooms, higher unit cost, and the areas a guest photographs.
Public area work is where made-to-measure dominates. Reception and concierge desks are built to the floor plan rather than cut down from a standard unit, with a staff work surface, a raised guest counter and an accessible lowered section where regulations require one. Lobby seating — sofas, settees, tub and lounge chairs, benches and occasional tables — is produced to ANSI/BIFMA X5.4 with contract foam and upholstery rated for the position. In food and beverage we manufacture restaurant chairs and tables, bar stools, fixed booth and banquette seating built to the layout, and buffet counters and live-cooking stations. Banquet output covers stacking aluminium chairs, folding round and rectangular tables, trolleys and dance floors for properties with event space.
See public area furniture →03 — Stone & Metal
Two trades that decide whether a piece of hotel furniture looks made or assembled.
Our stone workshop handles marble, granite, travertine, limestone and engineered quartz: slab selection, cutting, edge profiling, polishing and sealing for vanity tops, reception counters, table tops, floor tiles and wall cladding. Because the stone and the cabinet are made in the same place, the top arrives with the unit it belongs on, cut to the unit rather than to a drawing of it. The metal shop works stainless, mild steel and aluminium for chair and table frames, sofa legs, desk bases, trims, handrails, luggage racks and decorative screens, finished in powder coat to a RAL reference or in brushed, polished or plated finishes. Metal is welded, dressed and finished in-house, which keeps frame geometry consistent across a production run and lets us match a trim to a finish on a piece of furniture rather than to a sample card.
Explore Stone Works →04 — Custom & Joinery
Fixed furniture is where a factory earns its place, because none of it exists as a product.
Alongside loose furniture we manufacture the fixed and built-in scope: fitted wardrobes and closets in rooms with awkward alcoves, headboard walls that run the full width of a room, wall panelling and cladding, bathroom vanity units built around the plumbing that is actually there, kitchen and pantry cabinetry for serviced apartments and aparthotels, reception and back-bar joinery, and the mirror and signage frames that carry the brand detail. Each of these starts from a site dimension or a drawing rather than from a catalogue page, and it is produced on the same machines and with the same materials as the loose furniture beside it. That is why a fitted wardrobe and a free-standing minibar unit in the same room can carry the same veneer, the same edge detail and the same handle.
Talk to our project team →05 — Outdoor & Poolside
A separate materials problem: the same furniture logic, different enemies.
For resorts, rooftop bars and pool decks we manufacture outdoor lounge sets, dining chairs and tables, sunbeds and daybeds, parasol bases and service trolleys. The construction changes rather than the standard: powder-coated aluminium or marine-grade stainless instead of mild steel, teak, iroko or treated hardwood instead of interior timbers, solution-dyed acrylic and outdoor-grade mesh instead of contract weaves, and quick-dry reticulated foam so a cushion left in the rain is usable the next morning. Fixings are chosen for corrosion rather than for cost, because the failure mode outdoors is never the fabric first. Where a property runs an indoor restaurant and a terrace on the same concept, we produce both so the two read as one scheme in different materials.
See outdoor furniture →Production Planning
A hotel project does not enter the factory as one job. It is split by discipline, produced in parallel and brought back together for loading. These proportions describe where the production hours usually go.
55–65
Casegoods & joinery
Panel processing, veneer and lacquer work, drawer and door assembly, and all fitted joinery. The longest lead department and the one that sets the programme, because finishing cannot be compressed without showing.
20–30
Upholstery
Frame building, foam cutting, sewing and upholstering for seating and headboards. Runs in parallel with casegoods and is usually finished later, because fabric approval tends to arrive after finish approval.
10–20
Stone & metal
Slab cutting and polishing, welding, dressing and powder coating. Shorter cycles, but they gate the assemblies they belong to — a vanity cannot ship without its top.
Sequencing matters more than speed. We hold completed items in the plant and load by floor or area rather than by product type, so the first container off the line carries everything the first rooms need instead of every wardrobe in the order.
Briefing the Factory
The quality of a hotel furniture order is decided before the first panel is cut, by how completely the factory was briefed. These are the inputs that change the outcome.
Start with quantities taken off the floor plan and the room matrix rather than estimated. A four per cent shortfall on a 200-room order is eight rooms unfurnished at handover, and a top-up run never matches the original in either price or finish batch. Give us every room type separately, even where they differ by one item.
Then fix the finishes. Name the veneer species and cut, the laminate or lacquer reference, the RAL for metal, the stone type and the fabric for every upholstered position. Where you have a physical sample, send it — a photograph of a veneer is not a specification, and matching to a screen is how two production runs end up visibly different.
State the destination market so we produce to the right standards. EN 1021 and BS 7176 for Europe and the UK, CAL TB 117 for North America, with the Martindale rating for each fabric position and the seating standard for public areas. These cost nothing to write into the brief and a great deal to discover after a container has sailed.
Give us the programme, not just the deadline. Handover dates by floor or wing let us sequence production and loading around your critical path; a single end date forces everything to be treated as equally urgent, which in practice means nothing is prioritised.
Finally, decide the commercial scope. Ex-works, FOB Istanbul, CIF to a named port, or delivered and installed are four different prices for four different scopes, and comparing quotations across them without normalising is the commonest way a furniture tender produces a misleading answer.
Quality Control
Inspection at the end of a production run finds problems too late to fix cheaply. Contract manufacturing works by checking at the points where an error is still correctable.
The first control is the sample. For packages of any size we produce a pre-production prototype or a full mock-up room — the actual furniture, in the actual finishes, with the actual hardware — and it is signed off physically before the run starts. Almost every expensive change request in hotel furniture would have been a cheap one at this stage.
During production, panel work is checked for dimension and edge integrity as it comes off the line, veneer and lacquer are inspected under consistent lighting rather than wherever the piece happens to be standing, and upholstery frames are checked before they are covered, because a frame fault is invisible and unfixable once the fabric is on.
Assembled items are then checked as they will be used: drawers and doors operated, soft-close hardware tested, seating loaded, tops fitted to their cabinets, and every piece measured against the approved drawing rather than against the piece next to it.
The last control is the crate. Items are inspected immediately before packing, photographed where a client requires it, and packed with corner protection, edge board and film on polished surfaces, with moisture barriers for sea freight. Crates are labelled by room number or area so that installation does not begin with an unpacking exercise.
Viewed over the life of the property, furniture made properly in a contract factory is the cheaper decision. Correctly specified casegoods and seating run seven to ten years before a soft refurbishment; under-specified pieces start failing in high-traffic positions within two or three, and they fail in the rooms that are hardest to take out of service.
Plan by Area
Select an area to see what comes out of the factory for it, and what we need from you to price it.
the repeating scope
Casegoods, seating and fitted joinery produced as one matched programme across every room type in the property.
At a glance
✓ Bed bases, upholstered headboards and headboard walls
✓ Wardrobes, fitted closets, luggage benches and racks
✓ Desks, desk chairs, nightstands, minibar and TV units
✓ Bathroom vanities with stone tops, mirror frames, panelling
✓ One veneer, laminate or lacquer programme across the room
Send the room matrix, a typical room plan and physical finish samples — that is enough to price the repeating scope.
Materials
Contract furniture is a materials decision before it is a design one. These are the material families that run through the plant.
Panel & carcass
Commercial-grade MDF and plywood with sealed edges, moisture-resistant grades in bathroom positions. Domestic chipboard is not used in guest room casegoods.
Veneer & timber
Kiln-dried hardwood frames and natural veneers matched and pressed in-house, finished in conversion varnish or two-part polyurethane.
Laminate & surface
High-pressure laminate, compact laminate and solid surface for desks, vanities and table tops that take daily chemical cleaning.
Performance fabric
Contract weaves rated 50,000–100,000+ Martindale, tested to EN 1021, BS 7176 or CAL TB 117 depending on the destination market.
Leather & vinyl
Contract leather and performance vinyl for high-wear lounge, bench and banquette positions — easy to wipe, hard to mark.
Foam & comfort
High-resilience foam around 40 kg/m³ at 45 ILD, with firmness tuned to dwell time by zone, over webbing or spring systems.
Metal & base
Stainless, mild steel and aluminium, welded and dressed in-house, powder-coated to RAL or finished brushed, polished or plated.
Stone & quartz
Marble, granite, travertine, limestone and engineered quartz, cut and polished in our own workshop for tops, vanities and cladding.
Visit the Factory
HFC Istanbul Factory
Eyüpsultan Mah. Vezir Sok. No:6
Sancaktepe — Istanbul, Türkiye
Head Office & Showroom
İnönü Mah. Alpkaya Cad., Ümit İş Merkezi No:494
Kayışdağı, Ataşehir — Istanbul, Türkiye
Come and see it being made
We encourage clients and specifiers to visit before placing a package. Sancaktepe is roughly 35–45 minutes from Sabiha Gökçen Airport and about an hour from Istanbul Airport, on the Anatolian side of the city. The showroom in Ataşehir is a further 20 minutes and holds finish samples, fabrics and reference pieces.
A factory visit is the fastest way to resolve a specification. Veneers, laminates, stone and fabrics can be compared physically, seating can be sat in, and production in progress for other hotel projects can be seen on the floor. Contact us in advance and we will arrange a visit and, where useful, collection from your hotel or the airport.
Made to Measure
Custom manufacture is not an option we offer on top of a product range — it is the only way we work. Dimensions, finishes, fabrics, hardware and details are set by your drawings and your brand standard, which is why a wardrobe can be built to a 1,940 mm alcove instead of a catalogue 2,000 mm.
It also means a single finish decision can run across an entire property: the same veneer on guest room casegoods, the same RAL on lobby metalwork, the same stone on vanities and reception counters.
Why manufacture in Turkey
Istanbul sits within a week of most of Europe, the Gulf and North Africa by road or short sea, which makes container freight cheaper and faster than the Far East and landed cost lower than Western European manufacture. A factory visit is a short flight, samples move in days rather than weeks, and a revision during production does not cost a month of transit.
HFC has over 30 years of hospitality manufacturing behind it, with the head office and showroom in Ataşehir and the production plant in Sancaktepe, on the Anatolian side of Istanbul. We export on FOB or CIF terms to more than 30 countries with a 2-year structural warranty.
By Project Type
The production mix changes with the project, even when the factory does not.
New-build hotels. The full package produced against the construction programme — the largest scope and the one where sequencing matters most, because everything converges on one handover date.
Refurbishment and rebrand. Usually guest rooms only, produced and delivered floor by floor so the property keeps trading. Matching existing finishes and working around live operations is most of the difficulty.
Resorts and leisure properties. A heavier outdoor and F&B mix, larger public areas, and materials chosen for UV, salt and humidity as much as for wear.
Select-service and budget hotels. Standardised room types and long production runs, with the budget concentrated almost entirely in the rooms. Repetition is what makes the per-room number work.
Serviced apartments and aparthotels. Kitchen and pantry cabinetry enters the scope, room types vary more, and one finish palette has to cover studio through two-bedroom units.
Whatever the property, production runs the same way: made to your drawings, in our plant, to the standards of the market it ships to.
By Buyer
Our clients are rarely the people who will sleep in the rooms. Each of them needs something different from a factory.
Hotel owners and developers. Usually buying once for a property they will hold for years, so the questions are durability, warranty and what the refurbishment cycle looks like. We quote the package, not the piece.
Interior designers and architects. Working from a concept that has to survive contact with manufacturing. We read drawings, produce prototypes against them, and tell you early when a detail will not hold up in contract use rather than after it fails.
Contractors and fit-out companies. Buying to a programme with liquidated damages behind it. Sequencing, crating, labelling and loading are as much of the brief as the furniture, and we plan them with you rather than at the end.
Hotel groups and operators. Working to a brand standard with mandated products and finishes. We manufacture to the standard, produce the documentation the brand audit expects, and keep specification records for future phases.
Procurement and FF&E consultants. Comparing manufacturers on like-for-like terms. We quote by scope with the commercial basis stated, so the numbers can actually be compared.
In every case the relationship is trade and contract only — we do not sell to the public, and we do not publish a price list.
How We Work
1 — Drawings & costing
We start from your floor plans, room matrix or concept and return shop drawings and a costed scope by area. Quantities come off the plans, standards are fixed per destination market, and anything that will not work in contract use is flagged here rather than later.
2 — Prototype & approval
We produce a pre-production prototype or a full mock-up room in the actual finishes, fabrics and hardware. You sign it off physically. This is the cheapest point in the whole process to change your mind, and we would rather you used it.
3 — Production
The order is split across casegoods, upholstery, metal and stone and runs in parallel in our Sancaktepe plant. Checks happen at each stage — panels off the line, frames before covering, assemblies against the approved drawing — not only at the end.
4 — Crate, load & install
Export crating with corner protection and moisture barriers, crates labelled by room or area, containers loaded by floor to match your programme, FOB or CIF shipping with full documentation, and installation supervision or a full crew on site where you need it.
Get a Quote
Send us the property, the room count and the programme dates. We will come back with shop drawings, a costed scope by area and a production schedule.
Send us the property, the room count and the programme dates. We will come back with shop drawings, a costed scope by area and a production schedule.
Send us the floor plans, the room matrix and the finish direction. We will come back with drawings, a costed scope and a production schedule — and you are welcome to come and see the factory.
FAQ
Yes. HFC operates its own production facility in Eyüpsultan Mah., Vezir Sok. No:6, Sancaktepe, Istanbul, with the head office and showroom in Ataşehir. Casegoods, upholstery, metal fabrication, stone work and custom joinery are all produced in-house by our own teams, and clients are welcome to visit and see production in progress.
Yes. A single guest room from us can include the bed base and upholstered headboard, wardrobe, luggage bench, desk and desk chair, nightstands, minibar and TV console, bathroom vanity with its stone top, mirror frame, wall panelling and the armchair or sofa bed. Producing them together is what keeps one veneer, one edge detail and one hardware family running through the whole room.
A manufacturer owns the machines and the people; a supplier places your order with someone who does. The practical difference appears when something needs to change — a dimension, a finish, a fabric that has been discontinued. With a factory that is a decision on the shop floor. With a trading house it is a renegotiation with a workshop you have no contract with and cannot visit.
Typical production is around 4 to 8 weeks from approved samples for a standard package, with larger or phased orders scheduled against your handover dates rather than produced in one block. Sea freight adds transit time by destination. Sample approval is usually the longest variable, so starting finish sign-off early protects the programme more than anything else.
Yes, and it is the only way we work. Every piece is built to your drawings, dimensions, finishes, fabrics and hardware, or developed with you from a concept. There is no standard product range to choose from and no catalogue price list — each project is quoted on its own scope.
Seating is produced to ANSI/BIFMA X5.4 for public and lounge positions. Upholstery is tested to EN 1021 for Europe, BS 7176 for the UK or CAL TB 117 for North America, with Martindale ratings specified per position, typically 50,000 to 100,000+ in high-traffic areas. Naming the destination market in your specification determines which certification we produce.
We supply hotels, resorts, developers, interior designers, architects, contractors, fit-out companies, hotel groups and FF&E consultants. We are trade and contract only — there is no retail sale, no public showroom and no online shop.
Istanbul is within about a week of most of Europe, the Gulf and North Africa by road or short sea. Container freight is cheaper and faster than from the Far East, landed cost is below Western European manufacture, a factory visit is a short flight, and a change during production costs days rather than a month of transit. We export on FOB or CIF terms to more than 30 countries.
Yes. Alongside furniture we manufacture marble, granite and quartz tops, vanities, floor tiles and cladding in our own stone workshop, and stainless, steel and aluminium frames, trims and decorative screens in our metal shop. Where a project wants the complete package including items we do not manufacture, our FF&E supply service adds mattresses, lighting, soft goods and OS&E and consolidates everything into one delivery.
Our Product Categories
HFC manufactures across its full contract furniture range. Each category below has its own specifications, dimensions and model ranges.
Guest Rooms
Guest Room Furniture
Beds, wardrobes, headboards, nightstands and case goods
Event & Banquet
Banquet Furniture
Aluminium banquet chairs, round tables and conference furniture
Guest Rooms
Guest Room Seating
Armchairs, sofa beds, ottomans and accent seating for rooms
Outdoor
Outdoor Furniture
Pool, terrace and garden furniture for hotels
F&B
Restaurant Furniture
Restaurant chairs, dining tables, bar stools and booth seating
Joinery
Custom Kitchen Cabinets
Bespoke kitchen and pantry cabinetry for suites and back-of-house
Stone
Marble Works
Marble and natural-stone tops, vanities, cladding and flooring
Metal
Metal Works
Custom stainless and steel fabrication, frames and architectural metal
FF&E
FF&E Supply Solutions
Full-property FF&E procurement and supply, coordinated from one factory
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