Contract & Hospitality Outdoor Furniture
Furnishing a hotel terrace, a restaurant or café patio, a pool deck or a rooftop bar? HFC manufactures contract-grade commercial outdoor furniture — dining, lounge, sunbeds, daybeds, rattan & wicker and parasols — direct from our Istanbul factory. Built for daily commercial use, all-weather durability and a 2-year warranty.
30+
Years Manufacturing
40+
Countries Shipped
2-Year
Contract Warranty
FOB / CIF
Direct From Factory
Overview
Commercial outdoor furniture — also called contract or hospitality outdoor furniture — is built to a different standard than the residential patio sets sold to homeowners. Where garden furniture for a private terrace might be used a few dozen times a season, a chair on a hotel terrace or a restaurant patio is sat in hundreds of times a week, dragged across stone, left out in sun, salt air and rain, stacked and re-set daily, and expected to look presentable for years. That gap in duty cycle is the whole reason a dedicated category exists. When buyers search for outdoor restaurant seating, commercial patio furniture or outdoor furniture for hotels and restaurants, they are really asking one question: will this survive commercial use and still photograph well in year three?
HFC answers that question as a manufacturer, not a reseller. We engineer and build outdoor furniture for the hospitality trade in our own Istanbul factory — which means frame gauges, weld quality, coatings and fabrics are specified for the contract duty cycle rather than the price-driven shortcuts common in retail outdoor furniture. The result is a range that covers the full outdoor brief a hotel, resort or restaurant group needs to specify: dining tables and chairs for the restaurant terrace and café, lounge and sofa sets for the garden and the lobby spill-out, sun loungers and pool sunbeds for the deck, daybeds and cabanas for the premium poolside, rattan and wicker collections where a softer, woven look is wanted, and parasols and umbrellas to shade all of it.
The buyers who specify this category are not homeowners. They are hotel owners and operators, food-and-beverage groups, café and restaurant proprietors, beach and pool club managers, contract dealers, interior designers and procurement teams furnishing a property to a brand standard and a budget. What they share is a need for outdoor furniture that is commercial-grade, weatherproof, replaceable and consistent across an entire scheme — and that can be re-ordered in matching finish two seasons later when a few pieces need replacing. A residential supplier rarely meets that brief; a manufacturer that builds for the trade does. That distinction is exactly why "commercial," "contract" and "hospitality" are the words that matter here, even though the underlying products carry the familiar names of patio and garden furniture.
A large share of that demand is food-and-beverage. Restaurant terraces, café pavements and hotel breakfast patios all turn outdoor square metres into covers — and covers into revenue. That is why outdoor dining, including compact bistro and café sets, sits at the centre of most outdoor briefs: a well-furnished terrace can add a quarter or more to a venue’s effective seating capacity in season. The same logic applies to a pool deck, where a row of rentable cabana daybeds can out-earn the loungers around them, and to a rooftop, where every additional cover on a small footprint is valuable. Specified well, outdoor furniture is not a cost line — it is capacity. Specified badly, it is a recurring replacement bill and a tired-looking terrace.
This page is the umbrella. It explains how to specify contract outdoor furniture, where each product type belongs, the materials that survive a coastal climate, and how procurement works when you buy direct from the factory. Each product family below links through to its own dedicated range page, where you will find configurations, sizing, comparison tables and product-level detail. If you already know what you are sourcing — say outdoor dining sets for a beach club or sun loungers for a resort pool — jump straight to that range. If you are scoping a whole project from a floor plan, use the project estimator further down to size the order before you ask for a quotation.
How We Work
01
Trade & contract only
We work with hotels, developers, interior studios and procurement teams — not the public.
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Made to your project
Every piece is built to your drawings, finishes, fire ratings and quantities. Nothing off the shelf.
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Priced by project
No retail price list and no online shop — each project is quoted from its spec, direct from our factory.
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Delivered worldwide
We crate, ship and install to site across 40+ countries, on a single or phased schedule.
The Range
Every outdoor space breaks down into a handful of jobs: dining, lounging, sunbathing, shade. Our contract range is organised around exactly those jobs so a hotel or restaurant buyer can specify a whole scheme from one supplier. Choose the family that matches your project — each links to its own detailed range page.
outdoor dining set · outdoor table and chairs · patio dining · bistro & café sets
The workhorse of any restaurant terrace. Full-size outdoor dining sets in aluminium, teak, HPL and powder-coated steel for four to twelve covers — plus compact bistro and café sets for two-tops, balconies and pavement service. Stackable dining chairs, fixed and folding tables, and weatherproof tops sized to your cover count and easy to reset between services.
Contract tip
Stackable dining chairs let one server reset a 60-cover terrace before opening — specify stacking from day one.
outdoor sofa · outdoor lounge · outdoor sectional · garden sofa set
Soft seating for the hotel garden, terrace lounge and lobby spill-out. Outdoor sofas, modular sectionals, club chairs and coffee-table groupings with quick-dry foam and marine-grade upholstery. Built to hold their shape under daily occupancy and full sun, with frames that resist rust and fade season after season.
Contract tip
Modular sectionals reconfigure for events — order corner and armless units so the lounge flexes for both cocktails and quiet mornings.
sun lounger · chaise lounge · pool lounge chairs · poolside sunbeds
The single most-specified item on any resort pool deck. Reclining sun loungers, stacking chaise lounges and pool lounge chairs in aluminium, textilene sling, wood and synthetic weave — engineered for chlorine, salt and constant UV. Adjustable backs, drainage, and stacking versions for storage, with optional wheels so a single attendant can re-line the deck each morning.
Contract tip
Textilene sling dries in minutes and resists chlorine bleaching — the durable default for high-turnover pool decks.
By Venue
The same product behaves differently depending on where it lives. A chair that is perfect on a sheltered café pavement may be wrong on an exposed rooftop; a lounger that suits a calm garden can be the wrong call beside a chlorinated pool. Before choosing products, decide what each outdoor zone is for and what it has to withstand — then specify against that, not against a single catalogue aesthetic applied everywhere. Here is how the contract brief usually breaks down by venue, and which of the ranges above does the work in each.
— The job: Maximise covers, turn tables fast, reset in minutes. This is the heart of outdoor restaurant seating.
— Specify: Stackable dining chairs, fixed or folding dining tables, compact bistro and café sets for two-tops, and pavement-friendly footprints.
— Shade: Centre-pole parasols between tables or a cantilever to keep table tops clear.
— Watch for: Chair weight — staff lift them hundreds of times a shift. Lightweight aluminium wins.
— The job: A comfortable, photogenic lounge that flexes between quiet mornings and event evenings.
— Specify: Outdoor sofa and lounge sets, modular sectionals, club chairs and coffee tables; rattan or rope for a softer look.
— Shade: Large cantilever umbrellas over seating clusters.
— Watch for: Cushion drainage and quick-dry foam — wet seats lose you the space after every shower.
— The job: Pack the sun line with loungers, then add a premium daybed/cabana tier you can rent.
— Specify: Stacking sun loungers and chaise lounges, plus daybeds and cabanas on the prime aspect.
— Shade: Pool-side parasols and shade structures rated for open, windy decks.
— Watch for: Chlorine and salt — textilene sling, anodised aluminium and PE-rattan only.
— The job: Cram covers into a windy, exposed footprint while staying weatherproof and on-brand.
— Specify: Bar-height tables and stools, compact lounge groupings, and stackable chairs for nightly reset.
— Shade: Weighted or anchored parasols only — rooftops punish anything light.
— Watch for: Wind loading on every loose item, including umbrellas and cushions.
Materials & Frames
Most outdoor furniture failures are material failures — the wrong frame, the wrong coating, the wrong fabric for the climate. For contract buyers, material choice is the spec that matters most. Here is the honest version of how each behaves under a hospitality duty cycle.
The contract test
The honest question for any sample is not “does it look good?” but “does it look good after 5,000 sittings, 200 rainstorms and three summers of UV?” Contract-grade furniture is specified for the back half of that sentence.
One more material principle is worth stating plainly for hospitality buyers: mixing materials within a scheme is fine; mixing quality grades is not. A terrace can comfortably combine aluminium dining chairs, a teak feature table, rope lounge seating and PE-rattan daybeds — the look reads as curated. What breaks a scheme is combining contract-grade pieces with a few cheaper residential items to save on the order; they age at different rates, fade to different tones, and within two seasons the budget pieces stand out for all the wrong reasons. If a property is value-engineering, the right lever is to reduce the count or simplify the range, not to drop the grade. Every item that lives outdoors year-round earns its place by surviving the same duty cycle as the pieces beside it.
Specification Guide
A residential patio set is bought on looks and price. A commercial order is specified — against a duty cycle, a climate, a storage plan and a brand standard. These are the checks our hospitality clients run before committing an order.
1 — Match the material to the climate, not the catalogue photo
A coastal resort, an inland city terrace and a poolside deck are three different environments. Salt air, chlorine spray and relentless UV each attack different materials. Decide the environment first, then choose aluminium, teak, PE-rattan, sling or HPL accordingly — the photo on a supplier page tells you nothing about how it ages.
2 — Design the storage and stacking plan up front
Outdoor furniture spends part of its life off the floor — stacked for winter, cleared for events, reset for service. Stackable dining chairs, nesting tables and stacking loungers cut your storage footprint and your labour. If a chair cannot stack, factor in the square metres it will occupy out of season.
3 — Specify cushions and slings for the real weather
Quick-dry reticulated foam, solution-dyed acrylic fabric and proper drainage are the difference between a usable terrace ten minutes after rain and a soggy one for the afternoon. For pool decks, slings and rope avoid the cushion problem entirely. Always confirm the fabric is solution-dyed, not surface-printed.
4 — Plan shade and wind together
Parasols and umbrellas are structural, not decorative. Size the canopy to the table, then weight or anchor the base to your site’s wind exposure. A rooftop or open pool deck needs cantilever frames and heavy bases; an under-specified parasol becomes a liability in the first gust.
5 — Order spares and plan for replacement parts
In a commercial setting, individual pieces get damaged. Buying 10–15% spares with the original order — and confirming that slings, cushions, glides and umbrella canopies are replaceable — keeps a scheme looking uniform for years instead of patched with mismatched stock.
6 — Confirm contract-grade build and warranty
Ask for frame gauge, weld detail, coating spec and a written warranty. HFC builds to a contract duty cycle and backs the range with a 2-year warranty. The phrase “commercial-grade” means nothing without the specification behind it — get it in writing.
7 — Specify with re-ordering in mind
A hospitality property lives with its furniture for years and will inevitably need to top up — a damaged lounger here, a few extra dining chairs for a busier-than-expected season there. Choose ranges and finishes a manufacturer can reproduce in matching colour and detail later, and keep your specification on file. Buying from a maker who holds your spec means a re-order in year three matches year one, instead of forcing a piecemeal refresh of the whole scheme.
Interactive Tool
Scoping a terrace, pool deck or restaurant patio from a floor plan? Enter your outdoor area and venue type and this estimator returns a realistic starting count of seats, tables or loungers, the shade you’ll need, and a suggested order including contract spares — a ballpark to brief us with before you request a detailed quotation.
Estimates are planning guidance only and exclude fire-egress, accessibility and licensing requirements specific to your jurisdiction. Share your plan and we’ll confirm exact quantities.
The Manufacturer Advantage
Hotels and restaurant groups increasingly buy contract furniture direct from the manufacturer rather than through distributors. Türkiye sits at the centre of that shift — and HFC has built outdoor and indoor hospitality furniture from Istanbul for over three decades.
Factory-Direct Pricing
You buy from the people who weld the frames and stitch the slings — no distributor margin between the workshop and your terrace. Direct factory pricing on full project volumes.
Logistics To 40+ Countries
Türkiye’s position bridges Europe, the Gulf and North Africa, with established FOB and CIF sea-freight routes. Container-optimised, flat-pack where sensible, to keep landed cost down.
Contract-Grade Build
Specified for the hospitality duty cycle — frame gauges, coatings and fabrics chosen to survive commercial use, backed by a 2-year warranty across the outdoor range.
How It Works
A contract outdoor order is a project, not a checkout. Here is the path from first enquiry to furniture on the deck.
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Brief & plan
Send your floor plan, venue type, cover targets and brand direction. Use the estimator above for a starting count. We translate it into a product schedule by area — dining, lounge, pool, shade.
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Specification & quotation
We confirm materials, finishes, fabrics and quantities against your climate and duty cycle, then return a detailed quotation with FOB and CIF options and lead time.
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Samples & sign-off
For larger projects we supply samples or finish swatches so you can approve colour, fabric and build before the full run goes into production.
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Production
Your order is manufactured in our Istanbul factory to the agreed spec, typically within a 4–8 week window depending on quantity and season.
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Freight & delivery
Container-loaded and shipped FOB or CIF to your port, with documentation for clearance. We coordinate timing with your opening or refurbishment schedule.
Avoid These
The same avoidable errors cost hospitality buyers money and re-orders every season. A few minutes here saves a great deal later.
Buying residential furniture for a commercial duty cycle
Retail patio sets are priced for a homeowner’s occasional use. Put them on a busy terrace and they fail within a season. Specify contract-grade from the start.
Ignoring the storage and stacking plan
Non-stacking chairs and tables devour off-season storage space and staff hours. Stackability is a cost decision, not just a convenience.
Under-weighting parasols and umbrellas
A canopy without a matched, weighted base is the most common terrace failure — and a safety risk. Size base to canopy and wind exposure.
Choosing surface-printed instead of solution-dyed fabric
Printed fabrics fade fast under UV. Solution-dyed acrylic holds colour for years — the only sensible choice for contract upholstery and slings.
Forgetting spares and replacement parts
Damage is inevitable in commercial use. No spares means mismatched patches. Order 10–15% extra and confirm parts are replaceable.
Mixing too many ranges across one space
A coherent scheme reads as quality. Specifying one supplier across dining, lounge, pool and shade keeps finishes and tone consistent.
Request a Project Quotation
Send your floor plan, venue type and target quantities — we return a product schedule with FOB and CIF pricing and lead time within 24 hours.
Send your floor plan, venue type and target quantities — we return a product schedule with FOB and CIF pricing and lead time within 24 hours.
Our Product Categories
HFC manufactures across its contract furniture categories — all made to custom specification and shipped to 40+ countries. Explore the rest of the range:
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
Public Areas
Public Area & Lobby Furniture
Reception desks, lobby seating and lounge furniture
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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