Hospital waiting rooms: how they differ from corporate spaces

In an office reception area, a chair seats a visitor for ten minutes. In a hospital waiting room, the same chair seats people for hours, several times a day, every day — and seats bodies that are very different from one another. It is the same piece of wood, but it is not the same problem.

The projects Dall Móveis has delivered in this segment show three answers to that problem.

Three clients, three layouts

At Rede D’Or, the waiting room combines rows of beam seating with individual armchairs in the more private area. Beam seating handles volume along circulation corridors; the individual armchair handles longer stays.

At Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, the waiting area is set up with the Calcutá Chair around a round coffee table — seat with armrests, high back, dark upholstery.

At Clínicas Orto.com, the choice was a leather armchair with wide arms, in light wood, in an arrangement closer to a lounge than to a row of seats.

The chair has to fit the person sitting in it

The least visible decision is the one that matters most. The Calcutá comes in two widths in the portfolio: the CA107, at 600 mm, and the CA033 Bariatric, 850 mm wide with a reinforced frame.

The same chair family in two widths solves the waiting room without looking improvised.

That is the point: a waiting room does not choose who sits in it. When the wider piece comes from the same family, with the same design and the same finish, it joins the row without becoming a visual exception — and without making the patient look for the only seat that fits.

The armrest serves a similar purpose. Where waits are long, it is support for standing up, not a stylistic detail.

Finish is a maintenance decision

The model comes from the portfolio; the finish is defined with the order — type of varnish on the wood, fabric or leather on the seat and back. In a hospital, that choice answers less to the interior design scheme and more to the cleaning routine of each area, which differs between the reception, the exam waiting area and the pediatric area.

That is why the same piece appears in the three projects with different upholstery: dark leather at Einstein, light fabric on the Rede D’Or armchairs, caramel leather at Orto.com.

See the projects

Photos of the three projects are in completed projects, and the portfolio supplied to hospitals is in furniture for hospitals. For a new project, the corporate department works directly from the factory, at the volume of the order.