Decors Matter: Making Café Tabletop with Luxury Feel

In the world of hospitality furniture designs, surface look takes a crucial role in determining of a stylish, aesthetic vibe. The selection of panel and finish is frequently overlooked. From material to effect, this blog tends to explicit surface variants of common HPL/laminate sheets.

The decorative layer of laminate is a treatment of paper blend melamine resin, widely used for MDF, chipboard (particleboard), plywood and high-pressure laminate (HPL, compact laminate). In most situation, laminate and HPL can share decors and finish.

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Matte

The most common finish for laminate, HPL and even ceramic, it offers a soft, non-reflective surface that exudes delicate and smooth. It is friendly for café and restaurant to reduce noise, also does not influence dishes by surrounding lights. Especially elegant on stone series colors, absorbing lights while evoking a serene atmosphere

Glossy

It’s a shiny surface that reflects lights, looking brighter and cool with polished-like appearance. Excellent stain, spill resistance. Often solid colors working best with it, the glossy surface HPL creating a luxury feel like glazed enamel.

Naturelle

Basically is based on matte finish but adding touch sense of grains/textures. With a thick layer of decorative and more vivid feel, the naturelle effect is best with wood look or fabric series.

Fingerprint resist

Also known as skin-touch HPL panel, anti-fingerprint HPL laminate. The technology of material is upgrade from tradition curing, super matte and smooth surface. It’s new fashion among domestic market these years, popular in furniture like cabinet, countertop, closet, wardrobe, and kitchen door. With a sense of skin-touch feel, and free from fingerprint, it offers comfortable using experience

Metal Trim Edge

Although HPL is very nice material for outdoor venues, still many people don’t know what is it, some might not like its slim thickness and black edge. Lifepursue here worked a solution to making it better in strength and aesthetic. Substrate with marine plywood and seal by metal edge (anodized aluminum, SUS304, copper). For outdoor longevity, the material grade is premium, process of machine and Laboure are same loads, however replace to indoor material for outdoor can’t withstand months. The end effect is no like most of tables in market, sophisticated feel, match needs for luxury hotel, resort, bistro where aesthetic requirement is higher over cost management.

HPL and laminate is perfect material and widely used in furniture and construction, and there’s a huge world of colors, however it’s difficult to find an exact or even similar look between each producer. Because everyone wants unique products, and the decorative paper can make with 3D printing, as long as client has the sheet graphic, most producer would be able to make happen.

Lifepursue years of experience making genius combination between décor, color and finish, processing HPL and laminate extremely versatile furniture piece for HoReCa (hotel, restaurant, café) wholesale & custom project needs.