A stadium stand filled for game night

Made for
the moment.

Spectator seating engineered for the places communities come together.

Foundation Chair Spectator seating North America

One chair.
Built for thousands
of moments.

The Foundation Chair

Proven at venue scale. Brought to North America by Ovation Seats.

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Foundation Chair seating installed across a performance venue
Seating through a full stadium bowl
01

Proven at scale

Installed through the bowl of a 29,912-seat sports center, and across six other venues from open-air performance to national training.

Foundation Chair seat and standard detail
02

Built to perform

A square-back shell on a fixed standard, with a gravity tip-up seat. Detailed to survive weather, crowds and seasons rather than a showroom.

Retractable seating in a university stadium
03

Made for venues

Fixed and retractable configurations, including both in one facility, with coordinated colour programs across separate seating banks.

Foundation Chair seating at a high school stadium
04

Installed with Ovation

We sell it, we install it and we maintain it. One company from the venue review through to the finished stand and every inspection after, run out of Louisville, Kentucky.

Selected work

Seven installations. The seat counts are the argument.

Qionghai Culture and Sports Center

01  /  29,912 seats

Qionghai Culture & Sports Center

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Hainan, ChinaFoundation ChairOutdoor stadium

02  /  275 seats

Pell City High School

Pell City, AlabamaUnited States

The domestic reference. The same chair that seats thirty thousand, specified at high school scale.

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Pell City High School home stand

Selected venues

Seven installations,
275 to 29,912 seats.

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Qionghai Culture & Sports Center
29,912 seatsHainan, China

Qionghai Culture & Sports Center
Qingdao West Coast College City Stadium
6,100 seatsQingdao, China

Qingdao West Coast College City Stadium
Ji Min International Sports Center
4,544 seatsChina

Ji Min International Sports Center
Shandong Langya Old City Arts Performing Center
4,264 seatsShandong, China

Shandong Langya Old City Arts Performing Center
Xianghu Yayun Arts Performing Center
1,947 seatsHangzhou, China

Xianghu Yayun Arts Performing Center

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We build what holds the people who stand up.

A full seating field at an open-air performance venue

What we build to

01

Community

Built for the places people gather — the room the whole town ends up in on a Friday night, and at graduation the following spring.
02

Performance

Engineered for durability, safety and long-term use, and supported through the annual inspection ICC 300 requires of the venue owner.
03

Value

Smart seating systems that maximise every project dollar — and an honest answer when the scope and the budget do not yet agree.
04

Future

Modern solutions designed for today's facilities and tomorrow's fans, including the accessibility requirements that come with them.

Engineered
to perform.

The same chair, the same tooling and the same manufacturing discipline serve a 275-seat high school stand and a marquee sports centre.

Shell
Square-back Foundation Chair
Configuration
Fixed or retractable
Colour
Coordinated programs across separate banks
Standards
ICC 300 · IBC Ch. 10 · ADA 2010 §221 · NFPA 102

Designed
down to
the detail.

Every venue is different, so every layout is drawn against the structure you actually have. Select a detail.

Side elevation Front elevation Mounting Fastening Seat height Material Tip-up Square-back shell Row spacing Clearance Seat width Centre to centre

Foundation Chair — side and front elevation · Dimensions confirmed per venue

Shell

A full seating field in an indoor arena

New here.
Not new to this.

Ovation Seats is a new company in Louisville, Kentucky. The chair is not new — it is already installed at full venue scale.

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29,912 Largest installation
7 Featured installations
275 – 29,912 Venue scale, seats