Lou armchair with cushions

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 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.

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.

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.

This record was indexed from the CALMA catalogue.

Catalogue extracts issued on request — we publish no self-serve PDF library.

Plan and elevation are generated from the verified dimensions on this page.

Stainless steel

Iron is the main alloy component, with carbon, nickel and chromium, giving high resistance to ambient corrosion. Stainless can still be marked by some acids — salt residue among them — so periodic cleaning is what keeps it right.

Agora® fabric

100% acrylic at 280 g, Teflon®-treated for outdoor use. Wash below 30º with neutral soap; no solvents or abrasive cleaners, no tumble drying, iron below 150º, no dry cleaning.

Calma catalogue 2018 — materials/materiales (pp.222–223) and fabrics/tejidos (pp.224–225).

Brand

CALMA · Spain

Collection

lou

Designer

Studio Inma Bermúdez

Category

Dining chairs & armchairs

Status

Current range

Certifications

None recorded

Suited to

Restaurants & Bars · Golf & Members' Clubs

SKU

cl-352