We make the first and the last. Bazo is the single lounger. The Bazo Day Bed is 157 x 201 cm with a canopy frame 201 cm high. We make no folding deckchairs: if it has to fold into a cupboard, buy one of those.
How to choose a sun lounger: lounger, deckchair or day bed?
Start with the job. A sun lounger lies at full length on a fixed frame, with a back that tilts from flat to upright: for a whole afternoon. A deckchair is a folding frame with a fabric sling that you carry out and put away: for an hour on the lawn. A day bed is wider, often with a frame overhead.
How long and how high should a sun lounger be?
Long enough that your head and heels are both on it, and high enough that you can get up without a struggle. Bazo is 79 x 196 cm overall and 33 cm to the slats lying flat.
33 cm is low: comfortable lying down, not the easiest to rise from. For someone who finds low seats hard, a garden lounge chair such as Kenny, seat at 38 to 48 cm with arms, does the reading-in-the-sun job better. Our garden lounge chair guide compares them.
What should the backrest do?
Lock. A back that holds in fixed notches stays where you put it. The back mechanism and the joints are where most loungers fail, so look at them first.
Bazo's backrest locks in four positions, from flat for sunbathing to reclined for reading. No tools, no knobs: lift it and drop it into the next notch.
Teak or aluminium sun lounger?
Aluminium is the right choice if you carry the lounger in and out every day. If it stays where it is all summer, teak on stainless steel is the one you stop thinking about. Our guide to steel or aluminium garden furniture goes further, and polyrattan, teak or steel covers woven loungers.
| Teak on stainless steel | Aluminium | |
|---|---|---|
| Rust | Stainless under the paint: a chip does not rust through | Does not rust |
| Weight | Heavier; Bazo rolls on two wheels | Light to carry, and light in wind |
| Lying surface | Teak slats that drain and stay cool to the touch | Depends on the sling or slats fitted |
| Ageing | Teak weathers silver-grey, or oil it once a year | Check the joints and the back mechanism |
| What we make | Bazo | None |
Cushion included or bought separately?
Check before you compare prices: some loungers are sold without one. Bazo comes with a full-length cushion in Oat, a pale warm off-white.
Read the fabric. Ours is Sunproof Fontelina olefin, solution-dyed so the colour runs through the fibre and the sun cannot bleach it, tested to 1,500 hours of weathering and rated for pool and sea water. The cover lifts off. Our outdoor cushion guide explains the ratings.
Wheels, and where it will stand
Bazo has two wheels at the head end: lift the foot end and roll it into the sun or the shade. On a lawn, by a pool or on a terrace, the frame and teak stay out all season.
By a pool, rinse off chlorine and salt with fresh water now and then; our pool lounge chair guide has the space you need around it. In winter, the frame can stay out and the cushion comes in.
Lock, drain, roll and stay out
- Frame
- welded stainless steel
- Cushion
- included, Oat olefin
- Wheels
- two, at the head end
