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5 tips for choosing designer furniture for hotels and restaurants

Posted on 13 de February de 202512 de February de 2025 by esPattio Marketing

Design furniture plays a key role in the identity and functionality of a hotel or restaurant. It not only defines the aesthetics of the space, but also influences the experience of customers and guests. Choosing the right hospitality furniture is a strategic decision that combines style, comfort and durability.

However, the mistake is often made of prioritising appearance alone, and over time problems such as poorly resistant materials, uncomfortable designs or lack of versatility become apparent. How can you be sure that the furniture design you choose will remain impeccable and functional over time? In this article you’ll find out how to make the right choices to ensure that your investment in office, hospitality or breakout furniture is a success.

If you are looking for inspiration and practical advice on how to choose designer furniture that will meet the needs of your hotel or restaurant, read on to discover our top recommendations.

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Soft seating in hotels and restaurants: what’s the difference?

Hotel relaxation areas: comfort and exclusivity

Hotels want to offer comfortable spaces where guests can relax. The design furniture in these areas must strike a balance between sophistication and comfort, using high quality materials and ergonomic designs.

At esPattio, we have several families in our collection that meet the needs of your space without compromising on design, utility and durability.

Soft seating in restaurants: balancing design and functionality

Restaurant furniture needs to combine comfort and durability, as it is subject to constant use. Choosing chairs and sofas with a careful and functional design will guarantee a pleasant experience for guests.

You can explore some of the spaces where the different esPattio product ranges are present. Have a look!

5 keys to choosing designer furniture for hotels and restaurants

1. Comfort and ergonomics for a pleasant experience

Your customers’ comfort should be your priority. That’s why chairs with ergonomic backrests, comfortable sofas and tables at the right height can make all the difference to their experience. It’s very important to know what they need!

At esPattio, you can count on a wide range of families and customisation options that will adapt perfectly to your projects. We invite you to take the time to browse through the entire product catalogue!

2. Design aligned with the identity of the space

The furniture design should reinforce the concept of the business in question, whether it is for a hotel or a restaurant. All materials, colours and shapes should be in harmony with the overall style of the space.

This seems like a no-brainer, but it is imperative that the essence of the business is conveyed through the furniture. The good news is that, with esPattio, you can achieve this!

3. Durable and easy-care materials

To guarantee the longevity of designer office and catering furniture, it is essential to choose resistant materials that are easy to clean.

esPattio has a wide range of finishes, fabrics and maintenance manuals that are sure to be of interest, both for the pre-purchase process and when the product is already purchased.

4. Multifunctional furniture: design versatility

Urban and hospitality furniture must be adaptable. The ability to purchase modular tables, stackable chairs and sofas is necessary to make better use of space and optimise its use.

5. Sustainability: a commitment to the future

More and more hotels and restaurants are opting for sustainable furniture. Choosing products made from recycled or responsibly sourced materials is not only an ecological choice, but also a business differentiator. The group of companies to which esPattio belongs, Forma 5 Group, is working on its sustainability policy. Come and have a look!

Soft seating with a southern flair: esPattio options for your project

Marina: the perfect chair for seaside restaurants

Designed to withstand the coastal environment, Marina combines elegance and functionality. It was designed exclusively for esPattio by Patrick Norguet.

Their photo shoot took place in a restaurant overlooking a beach in Cadiz, which is very inspiring for spaces in this style!

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Amivera: Versatility and elegance for hotels and museums

Perfect for hotel lobbies and lounges, Amivera brings sophistication and comfort. Designed exclusively for esPattio by Jorge Herrera.

A curious detail is that his photo shoot took place in the Museo Carmen Thyssen Málaga. This gives you an idea of how good he can look in any company.

Platero: el equilibrio entre espacios de oficina y hostelería

Thanks to its modular and original design, Platero is adaptable and ideal for waiting areas in offices, restaurants and other spaces.

Designed exclusively for esPattio by Dsignio, this pouf and side table combination is the perfect place to read, take notes or write on your laptop in a waiting room or during a meeting. Or just sit back and feel like a jockey!

Abril: a chair that adapts to any environment

This wonderful family of chairs has many customisation options in terms of materials, backrest and legs.

Designed exclusively for esPattio by Patrick Norguet, Abril is a product that can be used both in the workplace and in other more hospitality environments such as restaurants, bars and cafés, although it is not necessarily the only one. You can also use it as a chair in spaces such as event rooms, conference rooms or simply anywhere you need chairs with a more sophisticated design touch.

Looking for design furniture for your hotel or restaurant?

It goes without saying that these are not the only esPattio products that can be adapted to your spaces, there are many more! Here is just a small selection of the rest of the Collections, come and discover more about esPattio!

If you want to incorporate exclusive and functional design furniture into your project, esPattio has solutions that combine style, comfort and functionality.

📩 Would you like to distribute esPattio furniture in your projects? Contact our sales team and discover how our products can transform your spaces.

Baelo, the most avant-garde meeting table, is here to stay

Posted on 9 de January de 20257 de February de 2025 by esPattio Marketing

This new design blends a bold personality with simple shapes to host everything from informal gatherings to critical decision-making sessions.

This month is packed with news for esPattio! Today, we wanted to introduce our first range of meeting tables. Baelo stems from our desire to venture into the world of meeting table design and diversify it, making it adaptable to all types of spaces, from corporate offices to restaurants and even for the home.

Designed by Italy’s prestigious studio Archirivolto Design, Baelo comes to market combining the commitment to quality that has been Grupo Forma 5’s hallmark for decades with esPattio’s signature Light, Colour and Warmth.

Would you like to know which colours and finishes will be available? Are you intrigued by the story behind our first range of meeting tables? Take a look at this short article and discover what will surely become your favourite meeting table!

The meeting table that defines innovation at its source

Perhaps Baelo’s greatest feature is its pedestal – in the shape of a bell or an inverted cup – which is created using the innovative rotomoulding technique. The process involves feeding a liquid or powder polymer into a mould, which is placed in an oven at a high temperature and rotated on two perpendicular axes around its centre of gravity. This allows the polymer to adhere to the mould’s walls. This results in much lighter pedestals than we would be able to manufacture using other techniques.

Thanks to this process, we have managed to create a hollow and seamless polymer pedestal, making it a perfect choice for the electrification options offered for each of the tables in the Baelo range.

The rotomoulding process is also part of our sustainability initiative. It not only means a drastic reduction in waste as long-lasting and harmful as plastic, but also a reduction in energy consumption, as this process is much more energy-efficient. Two ways that help us to take care of the environment From our skin, for the Earth.

Baelo, the perfect table for any meeting

Normally, when we think of meeting tables, we imagine impersonal environments, formal discussions and enclosed, dark spaces. Baelo casts all these stereotypes aside and stands out thanks to its unique value: its adaptability.

Baelo can be adapted to almost anyone’s needs. It is available with round, square, rectangular, elliptical and barrel-shaped tabletops. It also comes in two different heights: 74 cm medium tables and 110 cm high tables. The high tables are only available as a round, square or rectangular table. Finally, Baelo has the option to vary the number of pedestals that make up its base, from one pedestal for individual tables up to five for its larger configurations. Added to the infinite number of dimensions available for its tabletops, this makes Baelo a perfect table not only for any meeting room in an office building, but also perfect for use in dining rooms, restaurants, conference rooms, libraries, rest areas or even a home office.

In a sector where users demand furniture that is easy to understand, manage and transform, Baelo exceeds expectations by integrating seamlessly into any office or restaurant space. According to its creators, the Italian designers from Archirivolto Design, Baelo “has brought a touch of that home feel to the sector, which is necessary to add warmth to often sterile and impersonal office environments”.

Baelos “Light, Colour and Warmth

As you will already know, the soft seating brand esPattio offers products that break the mould in the traditional office, and Baelo is no exception. An infinite number of colours and finishes are available for its pedestal and tabletop to personalise Baelo according to your preferences, making it the perfect addition to your project.

Starting with its pedestal, produced in black or white using the rotomoulding process, it can be lacquered in any of the colours esPattio offers for this range. In an exclusive interview, part of the Archirivolto Design team told us that their preference for the pedestal was cold colours such as Black, Sombra or Alcázar, since “they are colours that clarify the shape and enhance the piece’s surface”. However, the other half of the Italian studio indicated that they preferred warm colours such as Gorafe, Duna or Cal. Two radically different preferences comfortably covered by our colour range available for this range of meeting tables.

As for the tabletop finishes, esPattio offers materials that include lacquered wood in the esPattio colour range, Dekton board in Eter, Soke, Umber and Nacre or the Archirivolto Design team’s favourite: European oak.

All the finishes for the pedestal, plus the tabletop finishes and the multiple dimensions available, give rise to an infinite number of personalisation possibilities for Baelo, which you can view in its Catalogue, by visiting our Seville premises after contacting our sales team, or by making an appointment at our showrooms across the world.

Baelo and its sustainable value

At Grupo Forma 5, we have been committed to sustainable growth in the furniture manufacturing sector for years. One of our great values in this regard is eco-design, which means that we design the piece to be sustainable from the moment we start thinking about it – not by merely making concessions during the manufacturing, distribution or sales process. Baelo is designed to be fully recyclable. 100% of its cardboard, wood, steel and polyethylene are recyclable, making it a product whose life cycle can be repeated at least six times.

The paint used to produce Baelo pieces is powder-based, with no volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Grupo Forma 5 has been committed to reducing emissions and waste from paint for over 20 years, from eliminating VOCs to reusing epoxy particles, recovering 83% of remaining particles using automated booth filters. This manages to eliminate the contaminating material.

You can view our sustainability policy on our website, click here.

Discover and personalise Baelo

Would you like to learn more about Baelo? Don’t worry, you can view the product on our website, where you will have access to all the available downloads for our first range of meeting tables.

If you want to see the full catalogue, click on the following image:

Here is a picture gallery of the photo session. If you want to download the entire gallery, click here.

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DSIGNIO unravels the secrets of the pouf armchair, Platero

Posted on 16 de September de 20247 de February de 2025 by esPattio Marketing

The designers of the new design tell us exclusively about all the details behind their latest creations.

Founded in 2002 in Madrid, DSIGNIO is the union of designers Patxi Cotarelo and Alberto Bejarano. This interior design and product studio is the creator of our latest launch: Platero.

With a trajectory of more than twenty years, the designers have been present at the best European design fairs and position themselves as an important studio in the concept of ‘Integral Design’, achieving this type of design in five Spanish hotels.

In this exclusive interview, Patxi Cotarelo and Alberto Bejarano unravel the secrets, inspiration and concerns with Platero, their first design for the soft seating brand.

Do you want to know what they told us? Join us in this short reading!

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DSIGNIO: “Platero is movement, freedom and play”

For DSIGNIO, Platero is “a different seat, a different furniture concept that offers many possibilities”. In particular, they highlight the symbiosis between a “curved base that allows us to swivel and change position easily” and a side table where “we can write, use the laptop, the tablet, use it as a lectern…”.

Despite its multiple functionalities, for DSIGNIO the most important thing about Platero “is not what it allows us to do, but how we feel when we use it. Platero gives positive sensations. Platero is movement, it is play, it is freedom, it reminds us of moments of leisure… and these sensations open our minds and make us creative when we work”.

DSIGNIO: “Platero goes beyond”.

The inspiration behind Platero “comes from childhood, from moments of fun. Sometimes, as adults, it helps to look back and remember when we were children because those moments can bring us a lot in the present”.

According to DSIGNIO, they hope the Platero design will “open up a little-explored avenue” and will be “a piece that contributes to creating vibrant spaces for ideas to flow in a relaxed atmosphere“. The idea behind Platero is that if a person sees it for the first time, they will have “a pleasant surprise” and “they will sit down, try it out and discover the sensation of swinging”.

The innovation behind Platero comes from DSIGNIO’s reflection on the state of the office workplace today. According to the designers, “a workspace doesn’t have to be a boring place”, but Platero goes beyond that. It’s an object that allows us to interact with it constantly. We can rock, relax, have fun, concentrate and use it for different purposes; it’s really versatile.

DSIGNIO’s favourite colours for Platero

In Platero, esPattio brings out all its chromatic range of fabrics. Atlántico, Doñana, Gorafe, Maceta… There is plenty to choose from. For Dsignio, Platero “deserves to be accentuated with its upholstery, using colours that contrast with its beech wood with red, green or blue colours”.

Being such an original design, you may have doubts about where to place it in an office or your workspace. For DSIGNIO, “a good place in an office would be an informal meeting room, a space where we want to encourage communication and interaction between workers. At home, we can use it as a place to work in a room or the living room.”

It is easily transportable, so it doesn’t need its own space or a single use, as it is versatile. It also allows us to sit on it in different ways, so we recommend trying it out.

The future of DSIGNIO and esPattio

Platero is Patxi Cotarelo and Alberto Bejarano’s first design for esPattio, but we hope it won’t be the last. According to the designers, working with esPattio has allowed them to “bring to reality a project as particular as Platero, contribute and contribute to a daring, fresh and original catalogue“, highlighting esPattio as “a brand with a great future ahead of it”.

On future designs for esPattio, DSIGNIO commented they “have several ideas in their heads to define” and left the door open to collaborating again soon.

Have you wanted to find out more about DSIGNIO? Visit their profile in our designer’s section to learn more about this prestigious studio.

Do you want to know more about curiosities, features, their photo shoot and other details? In the following blog article, we tell you more about it. Come and have a look!

Platero, the pouffe armchair and the dream of the South

Posted on 15 de September de 20245 de February de 2025 by esPattio Marketing

In September of 2024, a new product was launched, Platero, which is a combination of a side table and a classic pouffe. It is a symbiosis between the Andalusian artisan world of sculptors and image-makers and the new ideas of contemporary interior design.

Its warm wooden structure, colourful fabrics, comfort, functionality and bold design make this product one with the intrinsic esPattio hallmark: Light, Colour and Warmth.

Would you like to know all the details, what colours it is available in, the story behind this design, and the history behind this design? Join us on this ride and discover the guts of this seat!

Platero and his equestrian inspiration

This original piece finds its inspiration in the world of horses and the rural traditions of our land. Its shape, imitating a rocking horse, fills with life, nostalgia and originality any workspace or restroom where it is located. It is designed by Dsignio.

Such is its equine profile, which, to make the most of it, the whole team travelled to Jerez de la Frontera, specifically to the Royal Andalusian School of Equestrian Art, to get to know in detail the twin spirit of this seat: the Andalusian horse.

In the photographic session, you can see how this original pouffe was perfectly adapted to the architecture and magnificence of the palace, the school’s headquarters, giving unforgettable images, face-to-face with the grace and splendour of some of the best examples of this prestigious school.

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The Light, Colour and Warmth of Platero

Despite being a new design, it has all the features that you can find in the brand’s products. In its design, we see three parts: its wooden structure, its fabrics and its back handle.

The wooden structure, in beech, fills anyone who sees the product for the first time with warmth. Even though most of its structure is under the fabric, it stands out in its differential element: the side table. This table fills Platero with functionality. It can be used as a support for a laptop, tablet, notebook or book, allowing you to work or pass the time while enjoying the comfort provided by its pouffe concept.

It is the fabrics that bring out the full potential of its original and southern chromatic range, from warmer tones, such as Gorafe or Doñana, to cooler ones, such as Atlántico or Maceta. In this way, multiple customisation options are offered to adapt to the preferences of any project.

Whether you own one or intend to buy an esPattio product, you have available the finishes, upholstery and maintenance recommendations.

If you would like to know its measurements and other technical characteristics, click here.

Its rear handle is an optional element to the standard design, i.e. it may or may not be present on the product. This handle made of Ubrique leather facilitates the mobility of the product, making it a portable design throughout the office, favouring fluid workspaces.

A design adaptable to any space

As you may already know, esPattio, a brand specialising in soft seating, offers products that break out of the classic office mould, and Platero is no exception. Its colourful and original design seeks to give a touch of modernity to workspaces or other types of spaces.

Its versatility makes it functional in an office, serving as a support for quick meetings or as part of a creative coworking space in breakout rooms, such as a waiting room or hotel reception, or convivial areas, such as an interior patio or a modern café.

Furthermore, Platero not only offers pure and simple functionality but also provides design to the point that, as a decorative element alone, it is an essential value for any space that you want to furnish with a different, colourful and modern touch.

Discover and personalise Platero

Would you like to know more? Don’t worry; you can consult this product and find out more details about its fabrics and finishes.

Here is a gallery of images from the photo shoot. If you want to download the whole gallery, click here.

Needless to say, if you get this and other items from the brand, don’t forget to share the results of your projects, share them on social media, and mention us – we can’t wait to see your designs!

Do you want to know more about the designers behind Platero? In the following blog article, we tell you more about it. Come and have a look!

Of course, if you want to keep up to date with what’s going on in the factory, events we’re participating in, and much more info, don’t forget to follow us on Instagram and Pinterest.