High End Home Cinema / Theater Seats | London | Cheshire | Dubai

Full Design & Installation Service for Bespoke Home Cinema / Theater Seats | Seating Supplier

Cinema seating is the element most frequently specified last and least carefully — which is precisely why so many cinema rooms, even technically excellent ones, disappoint in the experience of actually sitting in them. A seat that reclines beautifully in a supplier’s showroom will foul the person behind it if the row spacing is wrong. A beautiful leather finish that looks perfect in isolation will look wrong in the room if the colour palette conflicts with the wall and carpet treatment. Choosing seating from a catalogue, independent of the room design, almost always produces a compromise.

At Custom Controls, seating is specified as part of the room design — not selected afterwards. We determine row positions, row heights and seat configurations during the acoustic and layout design phase, ensuring correct sightlines from every position, appropriate spacing for reclining without impact on the row behind, and aisle widths that meet both practical and building regulation requirements. The seating specification — including leather grade, stitching, headrest type, powered recliner mechanism, USB charging, cupholder configuration and LED base lighting — is agreed before the room is built, so that the seating arrives ready to install into a space designed to receive it.

What We Specify

Single recliners. The most flexible configuration — individual motorised recliner seats, each with full independent control, ideal for cinemas where different viewers have different preferences and for rooms where the seat count may change over time.

Loveseat pairs. Two-seat units with a shared centre console — cupholder, USB charging, storage — ideal for couples or for a front row that functions as a VIP position. The shared console creates a sense of occasion without sacrificing individual comfort.

Row seating. Fixed-row configurations for larger cinemas, typically with a consistent recliner angle rather than fully motorised individual recline, and with shared armrests between adjacent seats. Row seating typically achieves a higher seat count for a given room area than individual recliner configurations.

Tiered platforms. For multi-row cinemas, we specify and manage the construction of tiered seating platforms — ensuring the structural specification meets the load requirements of the seating, and that the platform height delivers the designed sightlines from every seat.

Finish and Specification

We work with specialist cinema seating manufacturers offering full leather customisation — colour, grade, perforation, contrast stitching, headrest style and logo embossing where required. LED base lighting, integrated into the base of each seat or row platform, provides both a practical aisle lighting function and a significant aesthetic contribution to the room — particularly when Lutron-controlled and dimmed to match the lighting scheme of the space. We specify and install the LED system as part of the overall Lutron lighting design for every cinema room.

Working with Your Interior Designer

Where an interior designer is involved in the cinema room, we share seating specification details — fabric samples, finish options, colour references — at the design stage, allowing the seating to be considered as part of the overall interior scheme rather than as an afterthought. Several of our most beautiful cinema rooms have emerged from exactly this collaboration.

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