Yearly Archives: 2020

TIVOLI Seating Collection

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Classic Furniture Style With A Modern Design

TIVOLI is an inspired, full seating collection from Aceray that elevates the classic Windsor spindled chair with modern aesthetics focused on style and design.

Defined by its spindled backs and sides, TIVOLI seating collection presents an eye-catching silhouette that balances a classic style with sleek modern lines. The bentwood spindles slope from the frames to TIVOLI’s generous seats, lending an airy feel with a relaxed comfort, perfect for hospitality interiors.

Its union of classic and modern styles makes TIVOLI an instant favorite with hospitality designers looking for versatility when creating unique interiors. Whether you choose the all-wood option or chairs with upholstered seats, this collection of chairs, armchairs, lounge chairs and high seating sits well in casual spaces yet is ready to be dressed-up for upscale settings.

TIVOLI is handcrafted from solid ash wood and made to last for years. While the spindled styling offers definition, it also provides structure as the spindles connect at the seat base, adding strength between the seats and frame. Choose from standard wood stains or custom match stains, and, from COM, COL, or Aceray graded-in upholstery* for the upholstered seats.

The Complete Tivoli Furniture Collection


* Aceray is committed to your health, from safe handling of products and maintaining high environmental standards to offering anti-microbrial fabrics through our upholstery partners.

The UNICO Privacy Collection

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Privacy with Style

For hotel guests or office workers, finding a private space in public areas can be a bit of a challenge. And creating a stylish and seamless privacy area can be equally challenging for designers.

Last year, we introduced UNICO, a privacy chair that creates a compelling look to many interior, communal spaces. Designers found UNICO’s unique style intriguing and were equally impressed how its contoured shape envelopes guests to create a quiet, personal, and comfortable lounging experience.

A Complete Lounge Seating Collection

This year, we added seating and design options to build a complete privacy seating collection. Our UNICO privacy chair is now also available with a chrome swivel base, featuring optional memory return. We’ve also introduced the UNICO-LOVE, a cozy sofa perfect for two. Complete the lounge look with an UNICO ottoman, available in stationary wood leg or chrome swivel base options.

UNICO’s Form Is Its Function

Its tall back with exaggerated wings extends from a low-set, deep seat that provides expansive acoustic and visual privacy while lending a distinctive style for multi-purpose, public areas. While each UNICO is perfectly designed for personal privacy, pairing the chairs, sofa and ottomans together is an excellent opportunity to create a fun, private retreat or a stylish meeting space.

To personalize your privacy area, choose from standard wood stains or custom match stains, and, from COM, COL, or Aceray graded-in upholstery* for the upholstered seats.


* Aceray is committed to your health, from safe handling of products and maintaining high environmental standards to offering anti-microbrial fabrics through our upholstery partners.

Gala-3 armchair in red upholstery brings this dining room to life

Art of Hospitality Design

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Designing to Create Amazing Spaces

One of the most important skills for hospitality interior designers is balancing a clients’ wish list while ensuring an excellent guest experience. It is an underestimated yet necessary skill. Negotiating choices from materials to seating, lighting to color often means satisfying the tastes, needs, and whims of a client while impressing guests with the look of the design and providing a space for their comfort.


Color, lighting materials, and space are all great ways to define a hospitality space.

Helping onboard clients to your vision can be easier if they see the entire project broken into smaller, unique spaces. Dividing a project into distinct segments illustrates how each area is its own and yet contributes to the overall design of the space. Color, lighting, upholstery are materials used to define separate areas. And, when these materials are woven throughout the overall project, they unify the whole design.

Use Furniture to Unify a Space

Of course, furniture is also a unifying design element. Whether featured as an ensemble or a singular piece, furniture certainly is a major impact on a space. Using pieces from the same furniture collection creates a cohesive aesthetic throughout a restaurant or hotel design. It also allows designers to play with style, as furniture then bridges a project’s smaller, distinct areas into the overall design. Integrating fabrics, stains, and other materials into the furniture styling helps integrate these areas throughout a space.

Cambria Mile North distinguishes dining and bar areas using different fabrics colors and materials

Regina Urner, senior interior designer for Design Tribe, knows it is also important to stay true to the brand when designing for a hospitality space. In her 5 Key Elements of Restaurant Design, Urner reminds us that a fine dining restaurant should not have a ‘hodgepodge of chairs and tables,” or that cloth napkins belong in a BBQ joint. Employing Urner’s philosophy, using furniture from the same collection coordinates the differing spaces and keep continuity throughout a design and keeping it on brand. This is something your clients will notice and appreciate.

The opportunity to provide designers a seating collection with versatility to be used throughout a design is one of the reasons Aceray introduced its Gala collection in 2013. Gala blends modern and classic design, lending styling opportunities for casual to elegant spaces. This offers designers opportunities to incorporate the collection as ensemble or featured pieces.

When architecture is the star, make sure the furniture is still a strong supporting cast

Focus on Guest Comfort

Beyond adding to the ambiance of a restaurant or hotel, well-designed furniture must provide comfort for guests. There is no point for furniture only looking good without providing comfort. When guests are comfortable, they are more relaxed. For a restaurant, keeping guests comfortable equates to guests spending more beyond their meals, such as on after dinner drinks, desserts, or coffees. For a hotel, offering spaces for quite reflection, an area for relaxation, or a place to reunite with traveling companions, provide guests with distinct yet individualized featured comforts they now demand.

Aceray Gala-1 dining chair and Campo DQ1 table base in dining room of Oakbrook, IL hotel

Let seating shine in a design, it can provide the touch that makes a space pop.

When designing for hospitality, from creating an overall look to the nuanced details is about providing guests with a unique and impressive space while staying true to the brand. Connecting distinct areas in a project is as big of a challenge as balancing the expectations of the client. From materials to lighting, environment to furniture, no detail is too small to consider in order to realize a fully cohesive design.

Aceray Molto seating collection of chairs and high seating

Design Expressive Spaces with MOLTO

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A Versatile Hospitality Seating Collection

The A & D community knows Aceray delivers timeless, contract seating. Our furniture is well suited for hospitality and commercial spaces with collections that provide designers versatility to create uniquely styled spaces.

Front, back and hero views of the Aceray Molto-1 side chairs
With stretchers built under the seat, the Molto-1 chair offers a clean, modern look

This year we introduced Molto, a well-considered seating collection, fitting that sweet spot of contract quality and affordability. Designers find the modern sensibility and styling versatility of this collection appealing, as Molto provides opportunities to create spaces for a contemporary aesthetic.

Molto’s high seating is stylish, comfortable, and durable

Molto brings distinction in its subtlety. Designed with a subtle contoured to seats and backs, this collection offers ergonomic seating for guests allowing for a comfortable lounging experience. We built the stretchers for each Molto directly under the seat, providing strength and stability while offering a clean look that allows designers to realize a complete and expressive space.

The Molto-7 lounge chairs are perfect for lobby seatings or as a dining chair

From COM, COL and graded-in fabrics to beech wood and steel finishes, every selection of this seating collection is customizable. Molto’s list price is set at a point where many other collections in its category are already discounted. For quality, style, and price, Molto by Aceray is sure to satisfy budget conscious hospitality clients.