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Frances by Kingsley Bate
Dining Side Chair
dining chairs & armchairs · SKU FN14
Frances is a soft-edged contemporary design with sloping arms, relaxed but tailored. Deep seats with full cushions sit on all-weather wicker frames over solid plantation teak bases. The range runs from dining chairs and a bar stool to a modular sofa, swivel rockers and tables.
Material
TeakAll-weather wickerStainless steelAluminium
Width58.5 cm
Depth71 cm
Height86 cm
Seat height48 cm
Weight13.6 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.
Lead timeOn enquiry — ask us about this piece.
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
- Fabric
- Cushion options:
- Typology, as supplied
- Dining Chair
The Frances collection
Plantation teak and all-weather wicker. 14 pieces in this collection.
Most Kingsley Bate pieces are teak, so they are chosen by material rather than by colourway. The timber is specified by how it will be allowed to weather, not by a paint code.
Colours in the Frances range
The maker’s own colour sheet for the Frances range. Confirm the colour on the quote.
- Teak
- All-weather wicker
- Stainless steel
- Aluminium
Cushion options:
Cushion fabric
135 · kingsleybate.com/fabrics + kingsleybate.com.auThe maker’s cushion fabrics: 135 across grades A to D. The fabric you choose stays 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.
Cushion thickness follows the frame: each frame’s seat is built low or high for the cushion it is designed to carry. A dining pad is therefore thin and deep seating thick, and neither is an upgrade on the other.
- For a dining chairs or armchair
- 3–6 cm seat pad — slim enough to keep the lines of the chair in view and leave knee room under a 74 cm table. 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.
- Core
- Cushions for exposed pieces have an open-cell, fast-draining (reticulated) foam core, so water runs straight through rather than pooling in the foam. A crowned top sheds standing water. Neither makes a cushion waterproof: outdoor cushions are built to drain.
- Fabric
- In outdoor fabric, what matters is the fibre. Solution-dyed yarn carries its colour all the way through, so it holds up to sun and scrubbing; surface-dyed cloth loses its colour as it wears. Performance fabrics resist water but are not waterproof. Mildew grows on dirt left on the cloth rather than in the fibre. The usual care advice is to wash and dry the cloth, and to stand a soaked cushion on its edge to drain.
- Patterns & your own fabric
- Plains, stripes and prints can all be specified. The brief records the repeat, the direction and any railroading, so the pattern lines up on every panel. Many pieces also accept customer’s own material (C.O.M.); the brief asks whether you will supply your own.
The maker’s cushion grammar
Commission custom cushionsA Kingsley Bate cushion is ordered in three steps: the piece, the fabric grade and the edge style. There are four edge styles and two fabric tiers, Standard and High-Performance. Each cushion is sized to its frame, and the maker’s care advice is to stand a soaked cushion on its edge to drain.
Made to order through our supplier workshops: sized to this frame, in your chosen fabric, from a thin dining pad to full deep-seating cushions.
Technical sheet issued on request, per piece.
Each sheet is issued against the maker’s current revision, so the drawing you receive matches the piece that will be built.
Request technical sheetThis piece appears in the Kingsley Bate catalogue.
Catalogue extracts are issued on request.
Request catalogue extractPlan and elevation are generated from the dimensions on this page.
Care guide issued with delivery documentation.
- Brand
- Kingsley Bate · United States
- Collection
- Frances
- Category
- Dining chairs & armchairs
- Status
- Current range
- Suited to
- Restaurants & Bars · Golf & Members' Clubs
- SKU
- FN14
Similar piecesFrances — all 14 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
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R.7Dining Side Chair
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R.9Dining Armchair
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