Country Club Buyer's Guide

Country Club Buyer's Guide

Chivari.com Country Club Buyer's Guide
Gold Chiavari chairs set for a country club ballroom gala

INTRODUCTION

The clubhouse is a promise your members can sit in

A country club sells something no green fee or dinner check fully captures: the feeling of belonging to a place that was built to a higher standard than the world outside the gate. Members feel that standard in the weight of the door, the pour at the bar, the way the light falls across the eighteenth green at six o’clock — and, whether they can name it or not, in the chair that holds them through a four-hour board dinner.

Furniture is the part of the promise that gets touched. A guest may never notice the millwork, but they will feel a chair that wobbles, a seat that’s an inch too low for the table, a banquet round that flexes when they lean on it to stand. Multiply that small disappointment by a wedding of three hundred, a member-guest of four flights, a New Year’s Eve gala, and you have either a reputation or a running repair bill.

This guide is built for the people who make those decisions — general managers, clubhouse managers, F&B directors, and house committees — who need furniture that survives the calendar a club actually keeps: banquets on Saturday, member dining on Sunday, a tournament scramble on Monday, and a wedding walk-through on Tuesday. Every piece here is designed, engineered, and built to commercial-grade specifications, because a club chair isn’t bought for one event. It’s bought for a thousand.

Club terrace at golden hour with bistro seating

The terrace at golden hour. The furniture 
has to look effortless and survive the weather. Photo: Chivari.com

 

SHOP BY NEED

Five rooms, one standard

A club is not one venue. It is five, each with its own job, its own wear pattern, and its own photograph. The fastest way to build a furniture plan is to walk the property the way a member does.

The room What happens there — and what it needs Start here
The grand ballroom Weddings, galas, member balls, and fundraisers. This is the photographed room and the profit room. Chiavari chairs, dressed banquet rounds, a proper dance floor, a stage, and a bar that looks like it belongs. Furnish the ballroom ▸
The fine dining room À la carte member dining, where the chair sits at the same table three hundred nights a year. Upscale side chairs — Royal, Bellissimo, Cross Back, Napoleon — that read as furniture, not rentals. See dining seating ▸
The grill room & bar The 19th hole and casual dining. Bar stools that take a spike-shoe kick, bistro chairs, and high-tops that wipe clean between the turn and dinner. Outfit the grill & bar ▸
The terrace & pool Outdoor dining with a course view. Weather-ready seating, cocktail tables, and pieces that photograph as well at brunch as they hold up in August. Shop patio seating ▸
Tournaments & the lawn Shotgun-start breakfasts, awards luncheons, and tented functions. Resin folding chairs, farm tables, and serpentine buffets that set fast and strike faster. Shop outdoor event ▸

 

GETTING THE BRIEF RIGHT

Five questions that size the order

  • How many covers, at once, on your biggest night? Your seating count isn’t your membership — it’s your largest single seating plus a sensible overage. Most clubs under-buy chairs and over-rent for years before doing the math.
  • How many times a year is each piece set and struck? Turn count, not age, ends a chair’s life. A ballroom Chiavari that flips forty weekends a year needs a different frame than a dining chair that never leaves the room.
  • Indoors, outdoors, or both? Terrace and pool furniture live in UV and moisture. Interior dining chairs don’t. Matching the material to the exposure is the difference between a five-year piece and a fifteen-year one.
  • What has to match, and what gets to be different? A club usually wants one signature chair for the ballroom, a quieter workhorse for member dining, and something rugged for the lawn. Deciding that up front prevents a mismatched storeroom.
  • Own or rent? If you host events on a regular calendar, ownership almost always wins — often inside the first year or two — and it lets you build the rental line into your own event packages instead of paying someone else’s.

What every piece in this guide has in common

  • Commercial-grade, built for the industry. Designed and engineered in the USA and built to survive hundreds of load-ins, not one showroom photo.
  • 100% virgin resin. No recycled resin — recycled is cheaper and weaker. Lab-tested and certified.
  • Steel Skeleton™ option. A welded steel core on the pieces that take the most abuse, carrying up to a 10-year total warranty — the longest in the industry.
  • In stock and ready to ship from strategically located warehouses, with reduced negotiated freight rates.
  • The Chivari Design Studio. Any style, any color — match a Pantone, a paint swatch, or add your club’s logo to a chair or cushion.
  • The 5-Way Guarantee and up to $500 in free samples, so the house committee can sit in the chair before the club buys three hundred of them.

SIDE-BY-SIDE COMPARISON

The Country Club Chair Collection, on one page

These are the ten chairs country clubs and CMAA members buy most from Chivari. Prices are the published “from” starting point; every line offers multiple materials and colors, and most step down further with volume. Warranty is total coverage. Match the chair to the room, not the other way around.

  Chiavari
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Cross Back
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Bentwood
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Royal
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Napoleon
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Louis Pop
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‘O’ Chair
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French Bistro
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Barcelona Bistro
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Resin Folding
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Starting price From $29.97 From $39.98 From $44.98 From $49.97 From $42.98 From $69.98 From $119.98 From $89.98 From $37.97 From $23.97
Total warranty Up to 10 yr Up to 10 yr Up to 10 yr 2 yr Up to 10 yr 2 yr 2 yr 4 yr 1 yr Up to 10 yr
Color options Dozens 7 10 8 4 7–8 2 6 4 9
Best room Ballroom & weddings Rustic-elegant dining Warm, timeless dining Fine dining & head tables Modern ballroom Statement dining Modern accent Bistro & terrace Café & grill value Tournaments & outdoor

Starting prices and specifications as published on Chivari.com; multiple materials, colors, and volume tiers available on each product page. Steel Skeleton™ builds carry up to 10-year total coverage — the longest warranty in the industry.

THE CHAIRS, IN DEPTH

Ten chairs, matched to the room

Chivari Chiavari chair in gold


The Chiavari Chair

The chair the company is named for — and the ballroom standard

From $29.97 · up to 10-year warranty · the world’s largest selection

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No chair says “event” like the Chiavari. Its slim, faceted silhouette photographs beautifully from every angle, stacks tight for storage, and disappears politely under a bow or a floral runner when the couple wants the flowers to be the story. For a club ballroom, it is the safest signature you can buy: guests already read it as celebration.

What separates a Chivari Chiavari from the import that chips in a season is what’s inside. Choose classic wood, weatherproof BasicResin or ToughResin™ for the color run through the material, aluminum for the lightest carry, or the Steel Skeleton™ build with a welded steel core rated to hold up under the hardest banquet rotation — and backed up to ten years.

For most clubs the answer is a gold or clear ToughResin™ for the wedding-and-gala look, with a stack of Steel Skeleton™ frames underneath the highest-turn inventory. Add a cushion in the club color and the same chair works for a black-tie ball and a Sunday brunch.

At a glance

Starting price From $29.97
Materials Wood, BasicResin, ToughResin™, Steel Skeleton™, Aluminum
Colors Dozens, incl. gold, clear, white, black, fruitwood
Warranty Up to 10-year total coverage (Steel Skeleton™)
Best room Ballroom, weddings, galas
Also great for Ceremony, member dinners, tented events

Fleet tip: pair with Chiavari bar stools so the ballroom look carries straight to the bar.

Wood Cross Back (X-Back) chair

The Cross Back Chair

Rustic-elegant, and the crossover darling of club weddings

From $39.98 · 7 colors · up to 10-year warranty

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The Cross Back (or X-Back) is what a club reaches for when the brief is “elevated, but warm.” The open wooden X reads as farmhouse or French country depending on the linen, and it has quietly become the most-requested wedding chair at clubs with a barn, a vineyard view, or a garden terrace.

Chivari builds it in solid wood for the traditionalists and in BasicResin, ToughResin™, and Steel Skeleton™ for clubs that want the look without the maintenance — the resin builds shrug off spills and humidity that would open the joints on a real-wood chair over a few hundred turns.

At a glance

Starting price From $39.98
Materials Wood, BasicResin, ToughResin™, Steel Skeleton™
Colors 7, incl. natural, fruitwood, white, black
Warranty Up to 10-year total coverage (Steel Skeleton™)
Best room Rustic-elegant weddings & dining
Pairs with Farm tables and serpentine buffets
Bentwood chair with cane seat

The Bentwood Chair

A legend, back in stock — timeless warmth for the dining room

From $44.98 · 10 colors · up to 10-year warranty

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The Bentwood is the grown-up in the collection — a curved, cane-or-solid seat silhouette that has furnished grand hotels and dining rooms for a century. In a club it signals permanence: this is a room that was here before you joined and will be here after. It is the natural choice for a fine dining room that wants character without trend risk.

Chivari offers it in Resin, ToughResin™, Wood, and Steel Skeleton™, so you can specify a genuine-wood chair for the à la carte room and a weatherproof resin twin for the terrace that photographs identically from two feet away.

At a glance

Starting price From $44.98
Materials Resin, ToughResin™, Wood, Steel Skeleton™
Colors 10
Warranty Up to 10-year total coverage (Steel Skeleton™)
Best room Fine dining, lounge, member grill
Signature Timeless bent-frame silhouette
Royal chair with rattan back

The Royal Chair

The breakout hit — a homerun for country clubs and fine dining

From $49.97 (reg. $119.98) · 8 colors · rattan or tufted back

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If you want one chair that makes a head table, a private dining room, or a bride stop and take a photo, this is it. The Royal brings the grandeur of a throne chair into a size every guest can actually use — a regal round back that elevates the whole room’s décor. Chivari calls it a homerun for country clubs and fine dining, and the reason is simple: it looks like it costs three times what it does.

Choose a natural rattan back for a lighter, coastal-club feel, or a tufted vinyl back for formal rooms. Seats come in easy-clean vinyl or waterproof, DuPont™ Teflon®-treated burlap, in Gold, Black, Silver, or Natural White-Washed — and you genuinely can’t tell it isn’t wood. Made with 100% virgin resin.

For a club, the Royal is the “members-only” chair: put a pair at every sweetheart table and a full set in the private dining room, and you’ve created a look competitors renting standard Chiavaris simply can’t match.

At a glance

Starting price From $49.97 (reg. $119.98)
Back options Natural rattan or tufted vinyl
Seat options Vinyl or Teflon®-treated waterproof burlap
Colors Gold, Black, Silver, Natural White-Washed
Material 100% virgin resin (looks like wood)
Warranty 2-year total coverage

Only at Chivari. Designed in the USA by the Chivari Design Studio. Add your club crest via custom cushions.

Chiavari 2.0 Bellissimo in Grand Champagne Gold

The Chiavari Bellissimo

The Chiavari, evolved — bigger, comfier, and built to be seen

Grand Champagne Gold · silicone cushion · self-leveling feet

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For decades the Chiavari has been the standard. The Bellissimo is what happens when you refuse to leave a classic alone. Noticeably bigger and wider than a traditional Chiavari, it commands a ballroom or a private dining room with real presence — and gives guests far more comfort for the long dinners a club actually hosts.

The details are where it earns the premium: an innovative, highly durable silicone cushion surface that wipes clean after the inevitable red-wine toast; premium adjustable, self-leveling feet that keep every chair wobble-free on the uneven floors that plague older clubhouses; and upgraded metal swivel glides that let the chair settle smoothly on any surface.

In spectacular Champagne Gold, it is the chair for the club that wants the Chiavari silhouette but refuses to look like everyone else’s rental.

At a glance

Finish Grand Champagne Gold
Cushion Easy-clean durable silicone
Feet Premium adjustable, self-leveling
Glides Upgraded metal swivel
Size Larger & wider than a standard Chiavari
Best room Premium ballroom & fine dining
Napoleon chair in black resin

The Napoleon Chair

Clean modern lines for the club that leans contemporary

From $42.98 · 4 colors · up to 10-year warranty

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The Napoleon is the Chiavari’s modern cousin — a squared, gently peaked back that reads crisp and current rather than ornate. Clubs renovating toward a cleaner, contemporary look choose it for both the ballroom and modern private dining, where it pairs beautifully with glass, metal, and minimalist florals.

Available in Clear Resin for a light, barely-there look and in a Resin Steel Skeleton™ build for the highest-traffic rooms, it carries the same up-to-ten-year coverage as the rest of the steel-core collection.

At a glance

Starting price From $42.98
Materials Clear Resin, Resin Steel Skeleton™
Colors 4
Warranty Up to 10-year total coverage
Best room Contemporary ballroom & dining
Signature Clean, squared modern back
Louis Pop chair with oval open back

The Louis Pop Chair

A little drama — the statement chair for a signature space

From $69.98 · 7–8 colors · clear, wood, or resin

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The Louis Pop takes the classic French Louis silhouette and gives it a modern wink — an oval open back that looks couture in clear acrylic and rich in wood or colored resin. It is a statement piece: a full set for an intimate private dining room, or a pair at the sweetheart table to give the club’s wedding photos a signature that guests remember.

Because it comes in clear, wood, and resin, a club can deploy it as a bright, transparent accent in a sunny room or as a warm, solid anchor in a paneled one.

At a glance

Starting price From $69.98
Materials Clear (acrylic), Wood, Resin
Colors 7–8
Warranty 2-year total coverage
Best room Signature private dining, head tables
Signature Oval open Louis-style back
Gold stainless steel O Chair with white vinyl seat

The ‘O’ Chair

Sculptural and see-through — a modern accent with attitude

From $119.98 (reg. $149.98) · 2 colors

Shop accent & ghost chairs ▸

The ‘O’ Chair is pure sculpture — a continuous, looping form that works as a design accent in a lounge, a bridal suite, or a photo corner. It is not the chair you buy three hundred of; it is the chair you buy a dozen of to signal that the club has a point of view.

Its transparent, modern character disappears in a small room, making tight lounges feel larger, and it pairs cleanly with both traditional and contemporary interiors.

At a glance

Starting price From $119.98 (reg. $149.98)
Colors 2
Warranty 2-year total coverage
Best room Lounge, bridal suite, accent seating
Signature Continuous sculptural loop
Buy quantity A dozen accents, not a full set
French Bistro chair for terrace and cafe

The French Bistro Chair

Terrace and café charm, engineered for the weather

From $89.98 (reg. $159.98) · 2 styles, 6 colors · 4-year warranty

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Few chairs say “relaxed European afternoon” like the French Bistro. On a club terrace or in a casual café it turns a cup of coffee into an experience, and its woven, weather-ready construction is built for exactly the sun-and-spill life that outdoor seating leads.

Two styles and six colors let a club set a mood — classic navy-and-cream for a nautical clubhouse, or all-weather neutrals for a modern terrace — with a four-year total warranty behind it. Available as sets with a matching bistro table.

At a glance

Starting price From $89.98 (reg. $159.98)
Styles / colors 2 styles, 6 colors
Warranty 4-year total coverage
Best room Terrace, café, pool, grill patio
Construction Woven, weather-ready
Pairs with French Bistro table sets
Barcelona Bistro chair

The Barcelona Bistro Chair

Café-ready value for high-turn casual spaces

From $37.97 (reg. $79.98) · 2 styles, 4 colors

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When a club needs to seat a busy grill patio or a pool café without spending fine-dining money, the Barcelona Bistro is the value answer — a clean, stackable, weather-friendly chair that looks far more expensive than it is. It is the workhorse of casual outdoor seating.

Two styles and four colors, at a starting price under forty dollars, make it easy to buy in the quantity a busy summer actually requires.

At a glance

Starting price From $37.97 (reg. $79.98)
Styles / colors 2 styles, 4 colors
Warranty 1-year limited warranty
Best room Pool café, grill patio, casual dining
Strength Stackable, weather-friendly value
Buy strategy Volume for high-turn casual space
White resin folding chair

The Resin Folding Chair

The tournament-and-lawn workhorse that sets and strikes fast

From $23.97 · 9 colors · up to 10-year warranty

Shop resin folding chairs ▸

Every club needs a stack of chairs that can be deployed by the hundred on a Saturday morning and struck by noon — shotgun breakfasts, awards luncheons, ceremony overflow, and tented functions on the lawn. The resin folding chair is that chair: weatherproof, fully assembled, built-in stacking, and light enough for a small crew to flip a room fast.

Chivari builds four grades — Standard, ToughResin™, SuperResin™, and the 2,000-lb-rated Steel Skeleton™ — so a club can match the grade to the turn count, from occasional overflow to a hard-used core fleet backed up to ten years. For beach and lawn ceremonies, ask about the patent-pending Grass and Sand Series that stays level on soft ground.

At a glance

Starting price From $23.97
Grades Standard, ToughResin™, SuperResin™, Steel Skeleton™
Colors 9
Warranty Up to 10-year total coverage (Steel Skeleton™)
Best use Tournaments, lawn ceremonies, overflow
Ships Fully assembled, built-in stacking
Grass and Turf Protection resin folding chair design

 

Brand New Grass and Turf Protection Resin Folding Chair Design

THE TABLES

What the chairs pull up to

A club’s table inventory does more quiet work than any other furniture it owns. It sets the seating math, it dictates how fast a crew can flip a room, and — dressed to the floor — it is the surface every centerpiece and place setting sits on. Chivari builds the full range, all commercial-grade, most on the same Steel Skeleton™ platform as the chairs.

 

72-inch round banquet table dressed to the floor


A 72-inch round, dressed to the floor, seats ten to twelve for a gala. Photo: Chivari.com
Table Sizes Seats Best for Shop
Round banquet 60″ & 72″ (Steel Skeleton™) 8–12 Ballroom galas, weddings, banquets view ▸
Rectangular / banquet 6′ & 8′, plus buffet height 6–10 Board dinners, buffets, seminars view ▸
Serpentine Curved sections Config. Sweeping buffets & display lines view ▸
Farm tables 5′, 6′, 8′ solid pine 8–12 Rustic-elegant weddings, garden dining view ▸
Cocktail / high-top 24″–36″ round & square, 42″ tall 2–4 Receptions, mixers, the turn view ▸

 

The upgrade most clubs feel immediately is the Steel Skeleton™ banquet table: a welded steel understructure that kills the flex a member notices when they push up from a crowded round. Add spandex linens and farm-table covers to finish the look, and carts and dollies so a two-person crew can move a hundred at a time.

TABLES, IN DEPTH

Specs for every table you’ll set

Banquet tables — round & rectangular

The backbone of every ballroom. Chivari’s banquet tables are built on the same Steel Skeleton™ platform as the chairs: a ¾″ Okoume marine-grade plywood top over a welded-steel understructure, wrapped in a drop-proof aluminum E-Channel edge. The 6-foot tables add a center support cross beam and the 8-foot tables a double center brace, so a member never feels flex when they push up from a crowded round. Also, available in Steel Skeleton design for extra durability and improved ROI.

Plywood banquet table with aluminum edge and folding steel legs

Plywood banquet table with an aluminum edge and folding steel legs. Photo: Chivari.com
Sizes 60″ & 72″ round; 6′ & 8′ rectangular; counter-height buffet
Steel Skeleton™ core Yes — welded-steel understructure
Top ¾″ Okoume marine-grade plywood, 11-ply + 2 veneer, poly-sealed
Edge Aluminum E-Channel (drop- and chip-resistant)
Weight capacity Up to 1,000 lbs (lab-tested)
Seats 60″ round: 8 · 72″ round: 10–12 · 8′ rect: 8–10
Height 30″ standard; counter/buffet height available
Warranty Up to 10-year total coverage (Steel Skeleton™)
Starting price From $158.80 plywood; $188.22 Steel Skeleton™

 

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Serpentine tables

Curved quarter-sections that link into S-curves, circles, and sweeping buffet lines — the detail that turns a plain buffet into a display. They pair with farm and banquet tops to build head-table backdrops and food stations that read as designed rather than assembled.

Serpentine table used as a bar with a riser

Can be used as a table or turned into a bar with a riser. Photo: Chivari.com
Shape Curved sections — S-curves, circles, sweeping runs
Sizes 7′ (84″) sections; kits seat 12–22
Top Plywood with metal edge; HPL bar-top options
Best for Buffets, display lines, head-table backdrops
Warranty Up to 10-year (Steel Skeleton™ tops)
Starting price From $269.98 per section; kits from $999.96
Serpentine sections linked into a sweeping S-curve

Serpentine sections link into a sweeping S-curve. Photo: Chivari.com

 

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Farm tables

Solid pinewood farm tables for the rustic-elegant look that country-club weddings keep asking for. Available with matching farm benches and farm cocktail tables to carry the theme from ceremony to reception.

Solid pinewood farm table with trestle base
Solid pinewood farm table with trestle base. Photo: Chivari.com
Material Solid pinewood, hand-finished
Sizes 5′, 6′, 8′ lengths
Seats 8–12 (8′)
Finishes Chestnut, Fruitwood, Natural and more
Pairs with Farm benches, farm cocktail tables, cross-back chairs
Best for Rustic-elegant weddings, garden dining, tasting dinners
Starting price From $469

 

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COCKTAIL & HIGH-TOP TABLES

Where the reception actually happens

Cocktail hour, the turn, the mixer before the gala — high-top tables free the floor and get members mingling. Chivari builds them in every top a club could want, from budget-friendly plywood to polished stainless and rustic farm X-leg, all at a standing-conversation height of 42 inches and dressed in seconds with a spandex cover in the club’s color.

Cocktail high-top tables at 42-inch bar height
Cocktail high-tops in stainless and plywood, at 42-inch bar height. Photo: Chivari.com
Height 42″ cocktail/bar height; 30″ dining-height tops also offered
Diameters / shapes 24″, 30″, 32″, 36″ — round & square
Tops Plywood, stainless steel, wire, and farm (X-leg)
Edge Metal C-Channel or stainless
Seats 2–4 standing guests
Weight ~14.3 lbs (32″ stainless)
Linens Spandex covers in club colors available
Warranty Up to 10-year (Steel Skeleton™ options)
Starting price From $58.80; stainless bar-height kit from $141.15

 

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THE BAR COLLECTION

From the ballroom to the 19th hole

Modular portable bar with Chiavari bar stools

A modular portable bar turns any corner into a service point — finished with Chiavari bar stools. Photo: Chivari.com

Beverage is where clubs make margin, and where the setup either looks intentional or improvised. Chivari’s modular and luxury bars let a club stand up a polished service point anywhere — a terrace wedding, a tented tournament tent, a ballroom perimeter — and strike it just as fast.

The signature move is the Chiavari bar stool: the same elegant silhouette as the ballroom chair, raised to bar height, so the look carries from the head table to the rail. Available in the Steel Skeleton™ build for the abuse a busy grill-room bar delivers, it’s the detail that makes a club’s casual space feel as considered as its formal one.

MODULAR BARS

One system, a different bar every weekend

Chivari’s modular folding bars are the workhorse behind the beverage program. Six series — Long Island, Margarita, Martini, Manhattan, Mimosa, and Spritz — snap together into straight, L-shaped, or serpentine runs, so the same inventory becomes a compact terrace bar on Friday and a 34-foot ballroom service line on Saturday. Reversible front panels flip between a clean single panel and a paneled look, and the whole face is brandable with the club crest.

Modular portable bar with brandable front panels

A 
modular portable bar with brandable front panels. Photo: Chivari.com

Series Long Island, Margarita, Martini, Manhattan, Mimosa, Spritz
Colors White, Black, Sage Green
Front panels Reversible single- or three-panel — fully brandable
Top High-pressure laminate (HPL) over plywood frame
Bar height 40.9″; back-bar and shelf modules available
Configurations Straight, L-shape, serpentine — ~7′ to 34′ runs
Set weight 525–676 lbs per full modular set
Engineered Designed & engineered in the USA
Warranty 1-year limited warranty
Starting price Single folding bars from $249.98; modular sets from $3,299.98

 

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DANCE FLOORS

The one piece guests actually stand on

Portable dance floor in a club ballroom

A portable dance floor defines the room and protects the finish underneath. Photo: Chivari.com

A portable dance floor is one of the most abused pieces a club will ever own, and one of the most visible. Chivari builds them the way an installer would if they had to carry, level, and stand behind every panel: reinforced anodized-aluminum edge trim, a waterproof PVC honeycomb core, and a 3 mm high-pressure laminate (HPL) surface — no plywood to swell or warp — with quick-lock cam fasteners that keep every seam flush, tight, and safe.

Styles run from classic parquet to high-gloss and luxury marble looks, sized from an intimate 12′×12′ up to a full 32′×32′ ballroom floor, and moved and stored on a single rolling cart that carries up to 24 panels. For a club that hosts weddings, it’s the difference between renting a floor for every event and owning one that pays for itself in a season.

At a glance

Panel size 4′ × 4′ modular panels
Surface 3 mm high-pressure laminate (HPL), UV-resistant
Core Waterproof PVC honeycomb — no plywood to warp
Edge Anodized aluminum trim (silver or gold)
Assembly Quick-lock cam fasteners; minimal-gap seams
Sizes 12′×12′ (144 sq ft) up to 32′×32′ (1,024 sq ft)
Capacity guide 12×12 fits ~15–20 dancers; 20×20 ~80–100; 32×32 200+
Panel weight 45.6 lbs
Finishes Parquet, high-gloss, black, white, marble looks
Transport Rolling cart holds up to 24 panels
Starting price From $4,999.98 (12′×12′)

 

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STAGES

Raise the band, the podium, or the bride

StandUp portable staging

P
ortable staging assembles fast and stores flat. Photo: Chivari.com

Head-table risers, a band platform, a ceremony stage on the lawn, a podium for the annual meeting — Chivari’s StandUp portable stages give a club a professional, adjustable-height platform that a small crew can assemble quickly and store flat between events. Paired with the dance floor and bar, it completes an event-production kit a club owns instead of rents.

At a glance

System StandUp™ modular staging — 4′×8′ & 4′×4′ panels, rounded-corner sections
Deck Marine-grade plywood, double-sided HPL, industrial anti-slip top
Frame Steel Skeleton™ legs; anodized-aluminum E-Channel edge
Height 21″ standard; adjustable-leg options available
Load rating 200 lbs/sq ft (lab-tested & certified)
Setup Folding legs, SAE hardware — assembled in 10–12 minutes
Sizes 4′×4′ up to 12′×20′; ceremonial round options
Accessories Guard rails, steps, skirts, stage carts
Warranty 2-year total coverage
Starting price From $429.98 (4′×4′)

 

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Lawn kit: resin folding chairs, farm tables and a portable stage

The lawn kit: resin folding chairs, farm tables, and a portable stage set for a tournament luncheon. Photo: Chivari.com

THE FINISHING DETAILS

Cushions, linens, carts & custom

Cushions in the club's color with easy-clean linens

Cushions in the club’s color and easy-clean linens finish every setup. Photo: Chivari.com
  • Cushions. Detachable, waterproof vinyl over CA117 fire-retardant foam — matched to your club color, or add the crest. Cushions.
  • Linens. Spandex cocktail covers and farm-table covers for a clean, quick finish. Accessories.
  • Carts & dollies. Chair carts and hanging dollies so a two-person crew flips a room fast and stores it safely.
  • Event packages. Pre-bundled chair-and-table packages at a discount for a fast, complete build-out. Packages.
  • The Chivari Design Studio. Any style, any color — match a Pantone, a paint swatch, or add your club logo to a chair or cushion.

WHICH PIECE FOR WHICH ROOM?

A quick plan for the whole property

If you’re furnishing… Lead with Because
The grand ballroom Chiavari or Bellissimo + Steel Skeleton™ rounds + dance floor The photographed room. A proven silhouette, a flex-free table, and a floor you own, not rent.
The fine dining room Royal, Bentwood, or Cross Back Chairs that read as permanent furniture and survive 300 dinners a year.
A contemporary renovation Napoleon or Louis Pop Clean, current lines that pair with glass, metal, and minimalist décor.
The grill room & bar Chiavari bar stools + Barcelona Bistro The ballroom look at the rail, plus rugged value for casual covers.
The terrace & pool French Bistro + cocktail high-tops Weather-ready charm that photographs at brunch and holds up in August.
Tournaments & the lawn Resin folding chairs + farm & serpentine tables + stage Sets by the hundred, strikes by noon, backed up to 10 years.
A signature moment Royal or Louis Pop at the sweetheart table One chair competitors renting standard Chiavaris can’t match.

 

WHY CHIVARI

The standard behind the standard

Chivari has been a family-owned manufacturer of commercial event furniture since 2007, trusted by some of the world’s top country clubs and leading CMAA members. The company started with the elegant Chiavari chair it is named for and expanded into tables, bars, stages, and dance floors — always to the same standard: the best quality product and customer service in the universe, at the greatest value.

  • Designed & engineered in the USA, family-owned since 2007, with warehouses in Miami, Chicago, and Las Vegas for fast, lower-cost freight.
  • The industry’s longest warranty — up to 10 years of total coverage on the Steel Skeleton™ collection.
  • 100% virgin resin, lab-tested and certified — never recycled resin, which is cheaper and weaker.
  • The Chivari Design Studio for fully custom color, finish, and logo work.
  • The 5-Way Guarantee and up to $500 in free samples, so the house committee can evaluate before the club commits.
  • A Green Promise — responsibly farmed wood and recyclable materials.
Club ballroom set, level and ready before members arrive

Set, level, and ready — the room before the members arrive. Photo: Chivari.com

Furnishing your club? Start with free samples.

Tell us the rooms you’re outfitting and your biggest single seating. We’ll build a plan, send up to $500 in free samples so your committee can sit in the chair, and back it with the longest warranty in the industry.

(800) 404-4847 · (305) 487-8960 · info@chivari.com

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Chivari · The Country Club Buyer’s Guide · Edition 2026 · chivari.com · Designed & engineered in the USA. Prices and specifications as published on Chivari.com; confirm current pricing, options, and stock on each product page.