Price Points: Outdoor folding chairs

Outdoor folding chairs

We’ve been walking in the great outdoors three times this week in almost as many days; we’ve really been taking advantage of this little patch of late summer sunshine. A couple of outdoor folding chairs – kept in the boot of the car for impromptu stops – would be a great addition for days like these.

They’d need to be waterproof… it’s going to rain at some point, that’s guaranteed. They’d also have to be lightweight; we may have to park a long way away from where we plan to sit. Chairs made of hollow aluminium with woven plastic seats & backrests are our best bet.

The three pictured tick all the boxes. The seagull outdoor folding chair is really cute, the green one is a favourite colour and the yellow one is just drop-dead gorgeous. Much as I’m in love with the D4E, the fifteen hundred pound each price tag would mean that we’d be worried that we’d damage them. They’d be out in the elements; on the beach, in sand and sea spray. We’ll be sitting in them in wet swimming gear. Perhaps one of the other two would be the better options.

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D4E folding outdoor chair by Marcel Breuer for Tecta
D4E folding outdoor chair by Marcel Breuer for Tecta
£1555.00
ASAB folding garden chair
ASAB folding garden chair
£19.99
Argos Home metal folding picnic chair
Argos Home metal folding picnic chair
£12.00
D4E folding outdoor chair by Marcel Breuer for Tecta
D4E folding outdoor chair by Marcel Breuer for Tecta
£1555.00
ASAB folding garden chair
ASAB folding garden chair
£19.99
Argos Home metal folding picnic chair
Argos Home metal folding picnic chair
£12.00
D4E folding outdoor chair by Marcel Breuer for Tecta
D4E folding outdoor chair by Marcel Breuer for Tecta
£1555.00
ASAB folding garden chair
ASAB folding garden chair
£19.99
Argos Home metal folding picnic chair
Argos Home metal folding picnic chair
£12.00
D4E folding outdoor chair by Marcel Breuer for Tecta
D4E folding outdoor chair by Marcel Breuer for Tecta
£1555.00
ASAB folding garden chair
ASAB folding garden chair
£19.99
Argos Home metal folding picnic chair
Argos Home metal folding picnic chair
£12.00
D4E folding outdoor chair by Marcel Breuer for Tecta
D4E folding outdoor chair by Marcel Breuer for Tecta
£1555.00
ASAB folding garden chair
ASAB folding garden chair
£19.99
Argos Home metal folding picnic chair
Argos Home metal folding picnic chair
£12.00

Gimme Five! Garden chairs

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various colourful garden chairs

We have a few colourful, mismatched 1960/70s folding garden chairs that get a couple of months use each year. One by one their ancient fabric seats are giving way under the weight of our sun-worshipping bodies! The only way they can be repaired is by completely recovering them in new fabric and that’s way beyond my chair recovering skills. I think we’re going to have to invest in some new ones. Here are some bright and, more importantly, rainproof examples.

  1. Le Versha chair: orange, red, plum, turquoise – £168, Anthropologie
  2. Jasmine bistro table & 2 chairs – £279 Marks & Spencer
  3. Parc folding garden chair – £45, Habitat
  4. Acapulco Low armchair – OK Design pour Sentou Edition – £338, Made in Design
  5. House by John Lewis beach chairs , yellow – £10, John Lewis