LED furniture rental for festivals and outdoor events
On a festival site furniture usually brings two problems: there is nowhere to plug it in, and by the end of the weekend it is either soaked through or scratched to pieces. Battery-powered pieces with a polyethylene body answer both. The VIP tent, the backstage rest area and the visitor chill-out zone are built from the same stock, and setting up needs no tools and no generator — just a roughly level surface and two people.
A festival calls for the low pieces: cube stools, bean-bag-style armchairs and low tables for the visitor chill-out zone, modular sofas for the VIP tent and backstage. They light up from a battery, so no generator and no cable ramps are needed in the middle of the site. The polyethylene body takes showers, dust and constant moving. Tell us how many zones you are planning and for how many people.
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The basic unit of a visitor rest zone, from which several islands can be laid out at different points of the site.
Low, more relaxed seating that works better in a festival setting than a formal suite.
This is what lets the seating corner follow the shape of the tent, since straight elements continue it to any length.
The smallest and most mobile item: one person carries two at a time, and it can be dropped anywhere as an extra seat.
At twenty centimetres high it does not tip on uneven ground, and it is just right beside a group sitting on the floor.
When there is no power on site
Most open sites, meadows, car parks and forest clearings are designed on the principle that there is nothing on them. Anyone who wants light brings a generator, runs cable, lays cable ramps across the walking surface and then has to have the machine guarded overnight. For lighting a single rest zone that is a disproportionate apparatus, and every element of the chain is a separate point of failure. With illuminated furniture that chain simply drops out, because the light source sits inside the body and the battery inside the same piece. The manufacturer states 6–8 hours of operation per charge, so it lasts from gate opening to the night's main act. Anyone running until dawn either prepares charged spares or accepts that by the small hours the zone is seating without light. A zone set up this way adds no power demand of its own to the site plan.
Grass, gravel, sand: what you stand it on
Outdoors the ground decides whether a piece stands steady. On fresh, soft turf, tall tables with narrow feet sink in, especially after rain; there, put a pallet or a floor panel underneath, or choose a model with a wide base and a large contact area. On gravel and stones it is the other way round: stability is fine, but the underside of the body gets scratched, so carry the pieces rather than dragging them. On sand — at a beach festival or by a river — the flat, wide-based stools and the low tables behave best, because they do not tip. Never put a counter on a slope: a loaded counter top going over ends far worse than a chair falling. Under a tent, floor panels solve the same problem where the ground underneath is still bare. Walk the marked-out patch before you set up.
Chill-out zone, VIP tent, backstage
The point of a visitor chill-out zone is that people can sit down without anyone seating them at a table. Cube stools, bean-bag-style armchairs and low tops are what that calls for: there is nothing on them to break, they can be moved around quickly, and in the evening they draw the edge of the zone by themselves. In the VIP and backstage tents the task is different, because performers and invited guests spend longer inside, so seating and surfaces to put things down are needed. The straight and corner elements of a modular sofa make up a corner that fits the shape of the tent. It is worth setting a different one of the seven shades for each zone. That has a practical benefit too: if the VIP area glows in a different colour from the public space, the boundary is visible from a distance and less barrier is needed. Guests instinctively stay in the part that matches their own colour.
Rain, wind, closing for the night
Summer festival weather is about showers and dust. The body is rated IP54 and UV-resistant, so a sudden downpour, hosing down and spilt drinks do no harm, and it will not fade in the sun over a long weekend. What it will not take is a flooded area, so do not plan a rest zone on low-lying ground where water collects. Wind is the other factor. In strong gusts the lighter pieces — the stools and the low tables — belong inside the tent or beside the container. At closing, the whole stock can be gathered at one point, and since the surface is closed and smooth, a wipe with a damp cloth before the next morning's opening is enough. If everything is covered in dust by the end of the weekend, a light wipe-down does it; no special treatment is needed.
Loading: weight, crew, trips
At a festival the bottleneck is rarely the setting up but getting onto the site. The pieces weigh from 3.5 kg to 35 kg, so one person carries the smaller stools and side tables, even two at a time, while the large sofa and the counter take two people. It is worth planning the trips so that one run fills one zone. That way no half-finished island is left in the middle of the site if the rain starts. Ready-made sets help a lot here, because they go out in one piece and you cannot end up with four stools arriving while their table waits for the next run. Loading out works the same way in reverse. If you number the zones on the loading list, nobody has to guess what belongs where halfway through the strike.
Do not furnish a VIP tent sized for 150 people for the full head count: roughly a third are seated at any one time, so 45–50 seats is the realistic target. One seating group takes 3–5 people, so you need eight to ten of them, plus 15–20 cube stools for the crowd on the move. Twelve to fifteen tall tables are enough if you work with 80 cm tops and 3–4 people per table. The furniture should take up about a quarter of the zone's floor area, with the rest left free for circulation and queuing.
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What should happen to the furniture overnight at a multi-day festival?
After closing it is worth pulling it all to one point, into a tent or beside a container, and charging it there until morning. Guarding any stock left on site is the event organiser's job, so settle that with the site manager in advance. For charging, an extension lead in the technical container is enough, because several pieces can go on the mains at once.
Will it stand up to a festival crowd?
Load capacity is 150–200 kg depending on the model, so adult guests are no problem. A stool without a backrest is made for a short sit, not for four hours, so for longer rests put something with a backrest or a sofa beside it. The flat, wide-based pieces cope best with heavy traffic.
Can we stick a sponsor's decal on it?
Please do not put adhesive lettering on hired pieces, because the surface can be damaged when it is peeled off. It would not work well anyway: the body glows from within and a decal would mask a strip of it as a dark patch. Branding needs its own carrier beside the zone. A banner or a roll-up next to the zone is a far better carrier for that.
Is this light enough to illuminate the zone?
No, and it is not meant to be. Illuminated furniture is mood lighting, not public lighting: it does not replace the lighting of walkways, steps and escape routes. That is for the venue's own lighting plan, with the furniture working alongside it. The reverse does hold, though: with it in place, less decorative lighting is needed.
How long does it take to set up a chill-out zone?
There is no assembly involved, so it is purely a matter of carrying: two people can lay out a smaller zone in a single run. The actual time on site is set by vehicle access and getting onto the ground, so we do not promise a specific time in advance. Tell us when it has to be on site.
