■ Iconic bentwood café silhouette
■ One-piece bentwood back with no center joint
■ Solid beechwood construction
■ Warm walnut finish for classic European bistro character
■ Compact 16″ × 20″ footprint
■ Lightweight at 8.2 lbs
■ Optional upholstered seat cushion available in 35+ commercial-grade vinyl colours
■ Indoor commercial use
■ Quick Ship options available
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A Classic Bentwood Café Chair in Solid Beechwood
The Anne Walnut Side Chair is a faithful interpretation of the original bentwood café silhouette — the same graceful hairpin-style back that has anchored European bistros, coffee houses, and patisseries for more than a century, rendered in solid beechwood with a warm walnut finish. The compact 16″ × 20″ footprint makes it one of the most floor-plan-friendly chairs in the Better Buy Chairs lineup; two-tops, tight banquettes, small café windows, and high-density brunch rooms all benefit from a chair that seats a guest properly without eating floor space. At just 8.2 lbs it's light enough for staff to move quickly during resets, but stable enough at the table to feel like a proper commercial chair rather than a residential café piece.
The One-Piece Bentwood Back — a Meaningful Quality Difference
The Anne's most important technical detail is invisible unless you know to look for it: the curved back section is made from a single piece of bentwood, without a center joint. Most lower-cost bentwood chairs sold into the North American café market use a two-piece back with a visible seam or joint at the centre — a shortcut that saves the manufacturer money but weakens the strongest part of the chair (the point that takes the most stress when guests lean back) and leaves a visible line down the middle of the back that reads cheap up close. The Anne's one-piece back eliminates that joint entirely: cleaner appearance from every angle, stronger structural integrity where the chair needs it most, and a more refined finish that photographs and wears better over years of daily service. It's the kind of detail that separates a chair built to hold up for a decade from one that's replaced after two.
Optional Upholstered Seat in 35+ Commercial Vinyl Colours
The Anne is available with a bare wood seat for the cleanest all-wood aesthetic, or with an optional commercial-grade upholstered vinyl cushion in over 35 colours — from timeless neutrals like Camel, Taupe, Ebony, and Winter White to signature accents like Claret, Burgundy, Sage, Marine, and American Beauty. That range makes the Anne easy to spec across multi-unit rollouts (match the brand palette) or one-off concepts (contrast the seat against the walnut frame for a signature look). All cushion colours use the same commercial-grade construction designed for daily hospitality use.
Built for Restaurants, Cafés, Bakeries, and Hospitality
The Anne is designed for indoor commercial hospitality use — restaurants, cafés, bakeries, patisseries, bistros, coffee houses, wine bars, hotel breakfast rooms, and any interior where a classic bentwood silhouette anchors the design. Solid beechwood is one of the most durable hardwoods used in commercial contract seating, prized for its strength, density, and ability to hold finishes and joinery under continuous load. Paired with the reinforced one-piece back and lightweight profile, it's a chair that keeps up with high-turnover service without turning into a maintenance headache. For designers and operators comparing options in the bentwood family, the Anne is the compact, refined hairpin-back choice — see the Emma Side Chair for the classic loop-back bentwood variant.
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