Specifying furniture for remote lodges

Remote hospitality has one constraint that governs everything else: nothing arrives quickly. A loose joint on a city restaurant chair is a Tuesday morning problem. The same joint in a camp on the western corridor is a problem for the rest of the season.

Serviceable beats indestructible

We stopped trying to build furniture that never fails and started building furniture that can be repaired by a maintenance team with a spanner and a spare part from a crate in the store. Bolts rather than glue. Standard fixings across an entire package. Webbing that pulls through by hand.

Standardising fixings across a whole lodge is a design decision, not a procurement one.

Finish for climate, not for photographs

Film finishes photograph well and fail badly. Under strong UV and seasonal humidity, a lacquer will lift at the edges within two years. Oil dulls, but it can be refreshed by the property without shipping anything anywhere.

Ship a spares crate

Every lodge package we deliver includes replacement cane panels, webbing, upholstery covers and fixings. It costs a fraction of a percent of the package and removes most of the calls we would otherwise get.