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Azores by Kingsley Bate
Dining Side Chair
dining chairs & armchairs · all-weather wicker · CUS129 · SKU AZ14
Strikes a balance between transitional and modern design. Angular planes of hand woven fiber supported by a base of solid teak; most seating units have beveled teak accents around the back or arms. All-weather wicker fiber wrapped around an aluminum frame, plus the finest Grade A teak.
Materialall-weather wicker
TeakAll-weather wickerStainless steelAluminium
Width57.1 cm
Depth59.7 cm
Height85.1 cm
Seat height48.3 cm
Weight10.9 kg
Plan, to scale. The bar is 45 cm — about the width of a pair of shoulders.
Custom cushionsMade to order for this frame, in your chosen fabric — commission cushions, or read Cushions & comfort below.
No finish chosen yet. Pick one above and it is kept with the piece — through the shortlist, the workspace schedule and the export.
Full specification
- Material family
- all-weather wicker
- Cushion code
- CUS129
The Azores collection
10 pieces in this collection.
Kingsley Bate is teak-first, so the browse unit is the material rather than a colourway: the timber is specified by how it is allowed to weather, not by a paint code.
- Teak
- All-weather wicker
- Stainless steel
- Aluminium
Cushion fabric
135 · kingsleybate.com/fabrics + kingsleybate.com.auThe maker's named cushion library — 135 fabrics across grades A to D. Choose one and it is kept with the piece, through the shortlist, the workspace schedule and the export.
Grade A61
Grade B42
Grade C20
Grade D12
Fabric images are not to scale and colour reads differently on every screen — order a physical sample before specifying. Swatches and grades are the maker’s own, read from Kingsley Bate (manufacturer) (2026-07-31) and Kingsley Bate Australia (Casualife microsite) (2026-07-25).
Cushion thickness is deck arithmetic, not a style choice: the maker builds the bare frame deck low or high knowing what will sit on it, and the cushion is the remainder to a comfortable finished seat. That is why a dining pad runs thin and deep seating runs thick — neither is an upgrade on the other.
- For a dining chairs or armchair
- 3–6 cm seat pad — slim enough that the shell still reads and knee room under a 74 cm table survives. A metal shell takes the slimmer end with a non-slip base; teak and woven frames carry 4–6 cm, with an optional tied back pad.
- Pad reference
- CUS129
- Core
- Exposed pieces take an open-cell, fast-draining (reticulated) core: water passes straight through instead of pooling in the foam. A crowned profile sheds standing water by geometry. Neither makes a cushion waterproof — outdoor builds drain, they do not seal.
- Fabric
- Outdoor cloth earns its keep in the fibre. Solution-dyed yarn carries its pigment all the way through the fibre, so colour survives sun and scrubbing; surface-dyed cloth wears its colour off. Performance fabrics are water-resistant rather than waterproof, and mildew grows on dirt sitting on the cloth, not in the fibre itself — which is why the published care is washing, drying and standing a soaked cushion on edge to drain.
- Patterns & your own fabric
- Fabrics and patterns are fully specifiable — plains, stripes and prints, with repeat, direction and railroading captured in the brief so a pattern lands straight on every panel. Many pieces also accept customer’s own material (C.O.M.) — the brief asks rather than assumes.
The maker’s cushion grammar
Commission custom cushionsKingsley Bate specifies a cushion in three published steps — the piece, the fabric grade, the edge style — across four edge styles and two fabric tiers (Standard and High-Performance). Cushions are sized to the frame, and the maker’s own care page says it plainly: stand a soaked cushion on edge and let it drain.
Made to order through our supplier workshops — sized to this frame, in your chosen fabric, from a thin dining pad to a full deep-seating build.
Technical sheet issued on request, per piece.
Sheets are issued per piece against the current supplier revision, so the drawing you receive matches what will be built, not an older press.
Request technical sheetThis piece is printed in the Kingsley Bate catalogue, p. 96.
Catalogue extracts issued on request — we publish no self-serve PDF library.
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- The fibre
- A UV-resistant all-weather wicker fibre, hand-woven over a rustproof powder-coated aluminium frame welded through 360 degrees. Suited to direct sun, rain, poolside and salt air; recyclable and non-toxic.
- Finishes
- Stocked in one or more of eighteen wicker finishes; most collections can be specified in further colours.
- Covers
- Fitted covers are made in solution-dyed polyester, colourfast to 1,000 hours of sunlight, with a water-resistant backing and buckles that stop water pooling.
Kingsley Bate catalogue — all-weather wicker (p.94).
Care guide issued with delivery documentation.
- Brand
- Kingsley Bate · United States
- Collection
- Azores
- Designer
- John Caldwell
- Category
- Dining chairs & armchairs
- Status
- Current range
- Suited to
- Restaurants & Bars · Golf & Members' Clubs
- SKU
- AZ14
Similar piecesAzores — all 10 pieces
R.3Dining Side Chair
R.4Dining Armchair
R.5Dining Side Chair
R.1 Dining Armchair
- House
- Kingsley Bate
- SKU
- AM15
- Range
- Amalfi
- Dimensions
- Width: 60cm, Height: 89cm, Depth: 62cm, Seat Height: 44.5 cm, Arm Height: 63.5 cm
R.6Dining Armchair
R.7Dining Side Chair
R.8Dining Side Chair
R.9Dining Armchair
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Kingsley Bate
Teak, all-weather wicker and stainless outdoor furniture.
The houseJohn Caldwell
No portrait of this designer appears here, so the panel carries the initials instead of a borrowed likeness.
The designers
