Chiavari ballroom chairs

A wedding dinner at rounds of eight, the head table on a low stage, rows of slim backs catching the light: that is the room a Chiavari chair is for. The 5 models here have metal or steel frames, every one stacks, and each takes a fabric or vinyl seat from the listed options. Choose the seat cover first, then count the stacks.

The ballroom at rounds of eight

A 60-inch round seats eight guests, and a 48-inch round five or six. Event rooms plan at about 10 to 11 square feet per seat, so a 2,000 square foot function room sketches out at roughly 180 to 200 guests before the dance floor, the head table and the bar take their share. Use it to start the conversation. The room's occupancy limit outranks it, and the review of local code belongs to your architect or designer.

The frames are slim, and four of the five list an overall width of 17 inches. Eight of them at a 60-inch round leave each guest close to 24 inches of edge, which is the comfortable figure for a seated dinner.

Stacking, carts and the next morning

Every chair here stacks. That matters most in a function room that holds a wedding dinner on Saturday night and a breakfast meeting at eight on Sunday. The listings give no stack count, so ask us how many high each model goes, then work out the carts. The stack count, the cart count and the number of people on your banquet team together set the length of every changeover.

Keep the stacks where the cart can reach them without crossing the ballroom carpet twice. Small as it sounds, that route sets the pace of the whole reset.

Ballroom chairs are ordered by the hundred, so keep in mind how lines are counted: every configuration is its own line, and two seat colors on one frame make two. The 8-piece minimum never comes into play at ballroom scale.

Seats, covers and a matched room

Each model takes a fabric or vinyl seat from the listed options. Vinyl wipes down after a long dinner; fabric reads softer under low light. Ask for swatches, and confirm the color again before any reorder, since the listed colors change over time. A single chair runs from $88 to $93.

For a larger stacking range, see the stacking chairs and the banquet chairs; for the head table, the arm chairs. Back in the chairs department, every room of the property has its own list. Save the ballroom as a property plan with the rounds and chairs counted, then copy it for the next property.