■ Solid European beechwood frame for superior commercial durability
■ Custom-finished to order — choose from standard stains or specify a fully custom finish
■ Choice of seat style — solid wood seat for low-maintenance simplicity, or upholstered seat for added comfort
■ Modern, refined silhouette that works in contemporary and transitional interiors
■ Custom upholstery program — vinyl, fabric, leather, or COM/COL in hundreds of colours
■ Supportive contoured wood backrest for ergonomic comfort
■ Non-marring floor glides to protect hardwood and tile floors
■ Engineered for commercial use in high-traffic dining environments
■ Ideal for restaurants, cafés, wine bars, brewpubs, boutique hotels, brunch spots, and modern hospitality concepts
■ Made-to-order lead times apply — contact us for current timelines
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A European-Made Side Chair Built Specifically for Your Project
The Axel Beechwood Side Chair sits in our Custom European Design Collection — a curated tier of contract chairs designed and built in Europe specifically for the demands of upscale and design-forward hospitality interiors. Where our standard wood-chair program offers excellent commercial seating in fixed configurations, the Axel is built to your exact specification: your choice of seat style, your wood finish, your upholstery, your details. For designers and architects working on signature restaurants, boutique hotels, or multi-unit concepts that need to feel custom rather than catalogued, the Axel is the kind of specification that delivers a designer chair without the designer-brand markup.
Solid European Beechwood Construction
The frame is built from solid European beechwood — one of the most durable hardwoods used in contract seating, prized for its strength, density, and ability to hold finishes and joinery under continuous load. European beechwood is the material standard most upscale European chair makers build to, and it's why these chairs hold up in serious daily service for years. Reinforced joinery keeps the chair stable through countless pull-out, push-in, and wipe-down cycles, while non-marring floor glides protect flooring in high-traffic dining rooms.
Choose Your Seat Style and Finish
One of the Axel's most useful features for designers and operators is the choice of seat style. Specify a solid wood seat when you want the simplest possible maintenance and an honest, all-wood aesthetic — no fabric to spot-clean between turns, no foam to compress, no seat pads to rotate. Specify an upholstered seat when guest comfort during longer meals matters — fully padded with commercial-grade construction, available in a wide range of vinyls, fabrics, leathers, and COM/COL materials, with optional welt cord and contrast stitching. Combine that choice with a fully custom wood finish to match existing millwork, flooring, or designer spec sheets, and you have a chair that's effectively built around the room rather than dropped into it.
