Collection title: The Classic Retro Bean Bag

Imagine a classic bean bag, but a high-quality furnishing, made to order (the good old fashioned way), in Nottingham UK, and you’re likely thinking of something close to our retro bean bag. 

At GreatBeanBags, though we’ve forged our reputation as UK market leaders with our range of contemporary bean bag chair and sofa designs, we had to pay tribute to the iconic, classic, retro model we all know and love. 

Perfectly at home in the living room, kids’ bedroom, gaming room, home cinema, home office, conservatory and beyond, The Retro model is a classic for a reason!

No mass production processes and production lines here. When you buy one of our retro bean bags, your order is assigned to one of our skilled machinists, who will make your bespoke piece to order on the same day, thoroughly inspect it, and send it out for delivery the very next day. 

Bespoke Means Bespoke

Unlike traditional seating or mass produced bean bags, our models are truly bespoke, enabling you to tailor your retro bean bag to your most exacting taste and your home’s interior design.

These are not novelty items afterall! They’re high-quality furnishings that can provide not only unparalleled sumptuous comfort, but bags (if you'll excuse the pun) of aesthetic interest to your home. 

No endless scrolling through retailers’ limited ranges of options in the hopes of finding the perfect model for your home. With GreatBeanBags, you can select the size, colour and fabric of your retro bean bag to tailor it to your unique space and application. 

The Options

Choose Your Fabric: We enable you to select from 8, UK-sourced, upholstery grade fabrics: ranging from: corduroy, cotton, faux fur, faux leather, real leather, luxury woven, velvet, and our indoor/outdoor fabric. 

Choose Your Colour: Choose from 14 stunning colours to match or contrast any room design. 

Specify Your Size: At GBB, we’re proud to make the market’s largest bean bags. So, explore our sizes to ensure you receive a retro bean bag perfectly sized for your space.  

Classic Retro Bean Bags for Your Little Ones

We make an entire range of kids’ bean bags chairs, made in a single size, perfect for children of all ages (70cm diameter). We recommend our adult sizes for teens and young adults. 

From gendered colours to subtle tones like sand, straw, white and cream, to bold colours like lime green, red, blue, orange, pink, purple and yellow, to animal print furs like tiger, zebra, arctic fox and beyond, there’s a bean bag for every child’s personality and bedroom. 

We also make sensory bean bags for children with SPD  SEN and autism. Parents can learn more about bean bags and SPD here. 

Styling Your Outdoor Space

At GreatBeanBags, we developed our indoor//outdoor fabric to offer you every single bean bag chair and sofa we offer as an outdoor model. 

Our outdoor retro bean bags offer the same sumptuous comfort, body moulding support, and killer aesthetic impact as our indoor models, but in an attractive, durable, weather-resistant fabric that’s available in a huge range of colours.

Settling for wood and metal garden seating is a thing of the past. Make your garden design reflect your sense of style. 

Why Buy from GreatBeanBags?

We’re one of Britain’s original bean bag manufacturers - proudly making bean bag chairs and sofas since 1992! That’s over 30 years. We have experience you can trust!

Every retro bean bag we make is made from safe, upholstery-grade fabrics and our entire range adheres to all relevant British Standards and Trading Standards. 

This, paired with our commitment to traditional, high-end manufacturing, where each product is made by hand in Nottingham UK, means that ours is quality you can rely on. 

In fact, our team of skilled stitchers have made bean bags for TV shows like Love Island and Big Brother, seats used in movies like the Bond movie, Spectre, first class seats for Virgin Atlantic, and for the HQ’s and events of your favourite brands. 

Rest assured, the only non bespoke part of your retro bean bag is the magic beans inside, which we’ve carefully selected to offer the greatest balance of comfort, longevity, and visual appeal.

However, bespoke doesn’t mean boring waiting times! Your piece will be made on the same day of order and sent out for delivery the following day. The perfect new chair is just a few clicks and a short wait away.