How to furnish a pastry shop or cafeteria with chairs and tables

When choosing among the many furnishing ideas for a cafeteria available, it is necessary to consider both the importance of style (because it is able to characterize a place and its customers) and practicality (because the tables and chairs of a pastry shop must be comfortable and practical, especially when space is limited). To begin with, you can find several images of bars and cafés on the web, so that you can get a first idea of the style you intend to follow for your place.

The different furnishing styles for your venue

To choose the best furnishing style for your bar, the first factor to consider is what kind of bar or cafeteria you are going to furnish: because you will need a different furniture for a classic bar, compared to a cafeteria of Anglo-Saxon inspiration or even a wine shop that aims to introduce different wines. Without neglecting that, as important as the style of the furnishings may be, the utmost attention must always be paid to the practicality of the furnishings.

In fact, it is necessary to take into account the space needed by waiters to move and serve customers between the various tables, the possibility of making the most of the available space and the need or not to choose flexible solutions (for example, stackable tables and chairs, which can be very useful if you do not always want to occupy all the space in the room or you want to add places around a table): a model such as the Manchester stacking chair, in technopolymer and stackable, suitable for both indoor and outdoor use, can be a very interesting solution. Another interesting solution that fits many different bar styles is the Viennese style with the Thonet chair model.

Thinking for example of the modern style, especially in its more daring declensions, it is certainly a style that can give a strong personality to the bar, but at the same time it provides furniture that is not often the top for practicality and comfort. So, attention to style, but also attention to all the other details that make a place comfortable and therefore make it enjoyable to the public.

Industrial style for your bar or cafeteria

If the choice for the furnishing of your place falls on the industrial style, which dates back to the great American factories of the beginning of the century, characterized by the hard work of the workers, you must have a large room available, such as a warehouse or a large loft.

Since the prevailing material is brick, the furnishings must also follow this style: the colours, in particular, must focus on darker shades, such as the grey of wrought iron, perfect for tables and chairs, and dark wood for the counter and any shelves.

The style of chairs and tables must be long and slender and the furniture must be completed with some vintage objects (such as a juke-box or a barrel) artfully inserted.

Vintage style for your bar or cafeteria

If the choice falls on the vintage style, which is becoming more and more popular in recent years, we must aim to enhance a precisely identified historical period: for bars and cafés, the most popular styles are those of the Sixties, Seventies and Eighties.

After having chosen the historical period you can choose a characteristic theme and inspire the furnishing of the place (an example is the disco music of the seventies, or the "paninari" of the eighties). In this case it is necessary to pay even more attention in the search for chairs and tables, because these must be perfectly in tune with the style of the premises: this means that you have to look for models with particular stylistic features, which often have very high costs.

Modern style for your bar or cafeteria

Furnishing a bar in modern style means skilfully mixing different ingredients to create a meeting place, where customers can interact like in a sort of square, where they can chat and spend time.

As far as tables suitable for modern furnishing are concerned, the most important factor is that they are not anonymous, but have an interesting style, in line with the rest of the bar, perhaps even in different shapes and sizes: perfect for this style is the Noale steel table, which is available in the round or square model, and which incorporates the materials (stainless steel) and colours (grey and black) typical of the modern style.

On the other hand, as far as the choice of seats is concerned, next to armchairs and sofas, you can choose a chair like the Oggiono aluminium chair, with aluminium frame and modern colours for the fabric seat, so as to have a flexible and light chair.