Furnishing outdoor spaces in commercial and public environments comes with certain challenges. Tight deadlines, high traffic demands, and the need for designs that are both functional and visually appealing are just some of the things designers need to take into account.
Whether it’s a bustling retail precinct, a busy school courtyard, or a community gathering space, decision-makers are often under pressure to deliver quality outcomes quickly and cost-effectively. The construction materials used to build the new environment must also be resilient and long-lasting, ensuring decades of reliable performance.
For time-poor building specifiers and developers, Anston’s catalogue furniture range offers the perfect solution. Combining ready-made designs, proven durability, and flexible customisation options, it is now easier than ever to specify, order, and install furniture that is beautiful and stands the test of time.
Design-Ready Solutions, made swiftly to order
Anston’s furniture catalogue offers over 25 pre-designed, ready-to-order furniture options, ranging from stand-alone seats and stools to curved and straight bench seats. All designs are ready for immediate production, enabling significant time and cost savings compared to custom furniture requests.
Produced in Anston’s trademark premium finish, customers can rest assured that each furniture product will always exhibit the highest standards of quality and performance. Visually appealing and resistant to harsh outdoor conditions, Anston’s suite of concrete products demonstrates balance and uniformity, creating a consistent, cohesive aesthetic across the entire project.
Driving Speed and Efficiency
In commercial and public projects, time is often one of the most crucial factors influencing successful project completion. Opting to use Anston’s catalogue furniture range means that the lengthy design process can be skipped, saving precious time. With established moulds and routine production processes already in place, production can begin once an order is confirmed, reducing lead times by a minimum of 6 weeks in comparison to a custom design.
This efficiency can help contractors meet tight construction schedules without compromising on quality or style. From large scale civic landscape upgrades to smaller private construction projects, Anston’s catalogue furniture range allows teams to plan with certainty, streamline procurement and avoid costly delays.
Robustness and Low Maintenance
Public and commercial environments demand hardy outdoor furniture that can withstand constant use and exposure to the elements. Anston’s catalogue furniture is crafted from reinforced precast concrete, a material known for its strength, stability, and resistance to wear. Unlike timber or metal alternatives, concrete won’t warp, rust, or deteriorate rapidly, even in high-traffic or harsh outdoor conditions.
For precast concrete products, maintenance requirements are minimal, especially if the products have been treated with a penetrative sealer prior to installation. An occasional clean is often all that’s needed, making the maintenance process simple and cost-effective over the product’s long lifespan. For asset owners and facility managers, this ease of maintenance translates to lower long-term costs and fewer disruptions to public spaces.
Design Flexibility & Cohesion
While speed and efficiency are key advantages, Anston’s furniture catalogue also offers a degree of design flexibility, with various creative possibilities available. Each furniture item can be produced in one of 12 colours from the Mineral Range and finished with light, medium or heavy shot-blasting, which results in a textured surface with varying levels of aggregate exposure. Honed or polished finishes are also available, which produce a smooth surface.
As the Mineral Range of colours is available across Anston’s entire product suite of paving, planters, and bollards, designers can easily achieve a seamless, unified design style. Modular designs offer even greater versatility, enabling varied layouts that adapt to different site requirements, from intimate seating clusters to expansive linear arrangements. Whether the design intent for the on-site seating is to blend harmoniously into the environment or to make a bold statement, Anston’s catalogue range offers the flexibility to achieve it.
Proven Across Multiple Applications
Anston’s furniture range has been successfully integrated into a wide variety of landscape projects for both public and private clients, proving its suitability across multiple sectors. You’ll find Anston concrete furniture in vibrant retail precincts, primary school play areas, high school and university campuses, community parks, civic plazas, transport hubs, and high-rise residential developments.
In each case, the furniture delivers the same benefits – quick procurement, long-lasting performance, and consistent visual appeal, all while meeting the unique functional demands of the space.
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If you’re looking for an outdoor seating solution that can easily integrate into your landscape project, consider exploring Anston’s catalogue range. Our design-ready solutions have been successfully deployed across a diverse range of commercial and public spaces, helping projects meet tight deadlines without sacrificing style or quality.