The simple stacking chair. It's what we're famous for. Back in 1939 our founder, Gerry (Gerald) Burgess, became British Amateur Tandem Cycling Champion. Inspired by his love of the sport, in 1946 immediately after the Second World War, he started his own business called GB Cycle Components Ltd, manipulating aluminium to create racing bicycle handlebars. Pedal forward 13 years to 1939 and Mr. Burgess met a designer who queried; "You're manipulating aluminium tubes, would you try and make me …
GIVE IT SOME FLAIR
Specifically designed for the congress/conference market, our Flair chair has more to it than meets the eye. It's the little details that make a product stand out from the crowd and the Flair chair has an abundance. Burgess has always been well known for our aluminium banquet and conference chairs, but we needed a steel model in our stacking repertoire. Seeing a gap in the market, our designer Peter Roth envisioned the Flair, a chrome framed, ply shell stacking chair with all of the benefits of …
A DIAMOND DEBUT
We're delighted to announce that this year is our very special anniversary. That's right, we're 60! Having started all those years ago as a bicycle handle manufacturing business, it's amazing to see where we are today, a leading name in furniture production with consistent new launches in the hospitality industry, ever pushing the boundaries to bring you the very best in the business. So what are we doing to celebrate our birthday? Well, we've created a brand new chair, the Adamas, taking …