Have you ever wondered how we choose the names for our products? This year, to celebrate our 60th anniversary, we've been thinking a lot about what it is that makes us special. The answer? Our incredible staff members. Company-wide, the majority of our employees boast employment records of 10+ years, with many making our 25 year club. There's even a few that have clocked up over 35 years! Because of this amazing commitment, we decided to name some of our new bedroom range chairs after our …
IT ALL STACKS UP
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 …
INTRODUCING: VIRAM & WALSH
Have you ever wondered how we choose the names for our products? This year, to celebrate our 60th anniversary, we've been thinking a lot about what it is that makes us special. The answer? Our incredible staff members. Company-wide, the majority of our employees boast employment records of 10+ years, with many making our 25 year club. There's even a few that have clocked up over 35 years! Because of this amazing commitment, we decided to name some of our new bedroom range chairs after our …
FROM TURINI TO ADAMAS: THE EVOLUTION OF A CLASSIC
Classic design never goes out of fashion. Which is why for our 60th anniversary, we’ve reimagined our original and much-loved Turini stacking chair to create Adamas, a brand-new range for modern corporate hospitality demands. Inspired by Turini’s classic shape and form, the new Adamas collection has all the features you love but with a comfortable new twist, the AirComfort ergonomic seat cushion. We collaborated with FIRA to bring you this exclusive seatpad, which involved independent pressure …
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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 …
STYLISH SANCTUARY
Burgess is renowned for our innovative conference and leisure seating. And now you can find us in the bedroom too, with the launch of our first ever hospitality bedroom range. A brand new direction for the company in our 60-year history, the new Burgess bedroom range of chairs and a serving trolley is a celebration of our past and a look forward to our future. With products named after long-serving Burgess team members and Italian mounts as per company tradition, our new range combines the …