Adjustable Chair Only in Solid Beech

The chair on its own, in five height positions, because most families need a second one before they need a second desk.

Children's furniture has a short life and an expensive one, and most of that is avoidable. The pieces here are drawn to a single height ladder so a table, a chair and a shelf bought two years apart still work together, and most of them adjust or convert rather than being replaced. Where a piece genuinely cannot grow, we say so on this page rather than in the returns policy, and we tell you what it becomes instead, which is usually a piece of furniture for a younger sibling or a resale that holds most of its value.

Specification

• Dimensions: 900mm wide by 550mm deep by 620mm high
• Age range: 5 to 12 years
• Material: solid steamed beech, which is the timber most school furniture has been made from for a century because it dents rather than splinters
• Finish: water based lacquer, certified to BS EN 71 part 3
• Load rating: 60kg on the top, chair tested to 100kg
• Standards: BS EN 12520 and BS EN 12521 for domestic furniture, finish to BS EN 71 part 3, and the tip test in BS 4875
• Edges and fixings: every exposed edge rounded to a 3mm radius, every fixing recessed and capped, and no pinch point anywhere a hand goes
• Assembly: flat packed, about an hour
• Weight: approximately 9.6 kilograms
• Desk height: adjustable through five positions, 520 to 700mm
• Seat height: adjustable through five positions, 300 to 420mm
• Top angle: fixed flat, or 15 degrees on the sloping version
• Cable notch in the back edge with a removable cover
• Sized against BS EN 1729 so it matches a school desk height
• Chair back angle 5 degrees, and the front legs are splayed against tipping

In the box

• The desk, flat packed
• The chair, flat packed
• Felt pads and spares
• A height setting card so you can check it against the child
• A hex key and printed instructions

Assembly and safety

Flat packed with a hex key and printed instructions. Fittings are threaded steel inserts rather than screws into board, so it can be taken apart and rebuilt as the child moves rooms, which most of them will do twice. Every fixing is recessed and capped, and the caps are supplied in a small bag with spares, because one of them will be prised off and posted somewhere.

How long it lasts

This adjusts as the child grows rather than being outgrown. The heights are on the same ladder as the rest of the range, so a table set for a two year old today lines up with a chair bought for a five year old in three years, and the adjustment takes one adult about five minutes with the hex key that came in the box.