Race Furniture, leading the field in the design and manufacture of auditorium seating in the UK. From select village halls to international conference centres, from courtrooms to theatres and town halls. Race Furniture represents style, quality and professionalism.

For sixty years Race Furniture has been at the forefront of developments in multi-functional seating, with a full and varied range encompassing many applications. Race Furniture uses its skills and experience to model, develop and manufacture the finest seating solutions. We understand that every need is unique, so we supplement our range of standard designs with bespoke models, tailored to the needs of each individual client. All our products combine time-honoured craftsmanship and skill with innovative design. A personal service for a highly competitive price. We take pride in our product – and so will you. Whatever the use, whatever the space, Race Furniture can help make it perfect.

Race Furniture was born out of post-war drive for alternative furniture design, with metal and foam replacing wood and horsehair. Out of privation came innovation. Founder Ernest Race became a design icon, with innovative chair designs like the Antelope and BA3 – durable classics still made by Race Furniture today. Half a century later, Race Furniture remains a major force in design. Yet it retains its faith in traditional skills and needs, Race Furniture has always recognised that its workmanship, its skilled craftsmen and personal attention to detail are invaluable assets. Our workforce are trained to the highest standards, with experience and expertise second to none. And a personal service takes care of both the bigger picture and the tiniest details/

Fine design, fine service, fine work. This is why Race Furniture is the premier choice for auditorium seating for educational, arts, legal and conference facilities. The ideal mix of ability and flexibility.

With a broad multi-functional range as our starting point, we offer creative solutions to seating conundrums. Wherever specific seating installations are required, we can respond with speed and imagination to the individual needs of the client. Using the best in CAD technology, we create both layouts and seating designs. This enables us to give comprehensive schedules for planning, prototype, production requirements and installation.

Bespoke design service and quality production techniques make our seating unique. We have both the experience and design flair to make the finished product outstanding. Stylish yet robust, highest quality yet competitively prices, traditional craftsmanship in a modern setting.

“An impossibly tight programme made the involvement of Race Furniture, in the first week of the project, a key appointment. Their team embraced our design aspirations enthusiastically and the final product is a striking example of style and quality, meeting all of the practical requirements, as well as contributing significantly to the overall design feel. The auditorium seat is at the very heart of the scheme, in every sense. We are delighted to have worked with Race on this important project.” Ian Logan, Aukett Europe Design Director for BT auditorium.

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The Royal Opera House is the third theatre on the Covent Garden site. In 1728 an actor/manager by the name of John Rich commissioned “The Beggars Opera” from John Gay, a poet and dramatist. The success of this production helped provide the capital for the first Theatre Royal to be built and on the 7th December 1732, it had its opening night.

The theatre was primarily a playhouse for the first hundred years or so, with King Charles II granting John Rich and the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden, as well as the Drury Lane theatre, almost exclusive rights to present drama in London. Rich also began developing pantomime as an art form which led to the tradition of pantomimes being performed every Christmas – a tradition that lasted until the 1930’s at Covent Garden and still continues today at theatres across the country.

The first serious musical works to be performed at Covent Garden were the operas of Handel, who gave regular seasons there from 1735 until his death in 1759. Unfortunately his organ, which he had bequeathed to John Rich, was burned, along with most of the theatre, in a fire in 1808.

The rebuilding of the theatre began at once and, in September 1809, the second Theatre Royal opened in Convent Garden with a performance of Macbeth. To attempt to recoup the costs of rebuilding the theatre, ticket prices were raised. However, after two months of disgruntled theatre goers disrupting performances with booing and hissing, prices were forced back down.

In 1846, a dispute with the management at Her Majesty’s Theatre (the exclusive home to ballet and opera in London at the time), conductor Michael Costa aligned himself with Covent Garden, taking most of his company of singers with him. The auditorium at Convent Garden was completely remodelled and the theatre re-opened in April 1847 as the Royal Italian Opera.

Fire struck again in 1856, completely destroying the theatre, and work on the third and present theatre began in 1857, before re-opening in 1858. Just over thirty years later, in 1892, the theatre officially became the Royal Opera House, with summer and winter seasons of ballet and opera produced regularly. This carried on until the First and Second World Wars, when the Royal Opera House became a furniture repository and a dance hall, respectively.

Several renovations took place in the 1960s including improvements to the amphitheatre, but it was clear that the theatre needed a complete overhaul. Despite being given land adjacent to the theatre to make room for the renovations in 1975, it wasn’t until twenty years later before work began when the newly created National Lottery granted the Opera House £58.5 million towards the rebuilding costs. The new Royal Opera House was opened in December 1999, with two new, smaller performance areas added to the theatre as well as the now historic main auditorium.

Now open all day and not just for evening performances, visitors come from all over the world to the theatre, packing the nearby hotels in London, and enjoying not only the wonderful shows, but also the beautiful interior of a historic building. The views that the Royal Opera House commands across London from the Amphitheatre Terrace have delighted tourists and guests since it’s re-opening, almost as much as the productions performed.