Every so often a piece of furniture gets built the honest way. No moodboard pulled from someone else's hotel, no client brief asking for a copy of something already on the market. Just a set of material instincts, worked out from scratch, that happen to land in the same place as a property halfway across the world.
That is the story behind the CHAMBRE, the newest cart from noHma, and it is why the unit is making its first public appearance at BDNY 2026, the Boutique Design New York trade fair running November 8 and 9 at the Javits Center.
What BDNY 2026 Means for a Launch Like This
BDNY is the hospitality design industry's biggest annual gathering, drawing hotel brand teams, interior designers, procurement leads, and ownership groups to New York every fall to see what is new in the category before it shows up in a property. For a one of one piece like the CHAMBRE, it is the right room. The people who walk a BDNY floor are the same people who decide whether a lobby gets a generic banquet cart or a designed, guest facing moment.
noHma is bringing exactly one CHAMBRE to the show. After BDNY closes, the unit dispatches from New York on November 12, 2026, with a second availability window from Seattle on December 1, 2026.
Meet the CHAMBRE
The CHAMBRE is a mobile bar cart built by noHma, a Seattle based hospitality furniture company known for turning underused hotel space, a lobby corner, a pool deck, a rooftop, into a revenue generating fixture instead of a rental afterthought. The company's guiding line is that nowhere can become somewhere that matters, and the CHAMBRE is the clearest example of that idea built to date.
It is priced at 31,500 dollars, sold as a single unit, and finished in a material story that reads as old world European glamour rather than banquet hall equipment.
Every Material, and Who Made It
One of the things that sets the CHAMBRE apart from a typical hospitality cart is that nothing on it is generic. Every surface has a named supplier and a reason it was chosen.
The frame and internal structure
The core of the cart is built from light grey HDPE on an aluminum frame. HDPE is the same category of material used in commercial kitchen prep surfaces, chosen because it shrugs off moisture, resists staining, and holds up to being wiped down between every single service. The aluminum frame keeps the whole structure light enough that one person can reposition it without help.
The countertop
The countertop is cut from Neolith Amazonico, a deep, jewel toned green sintered stone with dramatic natural veining. Neolith is one of the best known names in sintered stone, a porcelain based surface material built to resist scratching, heat, and UV fading far better than traditional marble, which matters for a piece of furniture that moves between indoor and outdoor hospitality settings.
The stone was sourced through Evolv Surfaces, a stone distributor based in the Seattle area, and fabricated by Trio Surfaces, a stone fabrication shop also based in the Seattle region. Keeping sourcing and fabrication local to where the cart is built means tighter quality control from slab to finished countertop.
The facade
The base of the cart is wrapped in a one inch half round wood tambour profile, upholstered in velvet over a water resistant MDF substrate with a moisture wicking fabric backer underneath. That backer layer matters more than it sounds like it should. It is what keeps the upholstery from holding moisture against the wood core over years of bar service, spilled drinks included.
The canopy
The canopy is the most photographed part of the cart, and it is built from five distinct materials that all had to be sourced and assembled to read as one continuous silhouette.
Here is everything that goes into it.
Bordeaux velvet dome, sourced from Elastron Group's Paris collection, a European upholstery fabric line
Open weave natural cane lattice banding the canopy's midsection
Bordeaux bullion fringe with cream and champagne tassel drops along the scalloped edge
A fine champagne gimp trim in a feather and chevron weave, finishing every seam
A hidden lining inside the canopy, a vintage botanical bird print on natural linen, visible only if a guest happens to look straight up
The accents
Every pole, rail, and trim edge on the cart is finished in a champagne brushed aluminum, chosen to read as warm gold rather than cold chrome. The single accent pole holding up one side of the canopy is solid turned walnut, stacked in a ball form silhouette, chosen specifically because solid wood ages and warms with handling instead of just wearing out.
Mobility and lighting
Because a cart that cannot move is just furniture, the CHAMBRE rides on commercial grade castors rated to 500 pounds each, for 2,000 pounds of total capacity. Two are swivel and two are static, giving one person full control when repositioning the unit, and every castor hub is capped in a metallic cover matched to the cart's own accent finish.
Lighting comes from three EmeryAllen dim to warm fixtures, wired in with a single switch. Dim to warm is the same lighting technology used across high end hospitality and residential fixtures, where the light color shifts from a clean white down to a candlelight amber as it dims, rather than just getting darker.
The Hotel That Matched It, By Accident
Here is the part of the CHAMBRE's story that makes it worth writing about in the first place.
The cart was designed and built as its own piece, full stop. Nobody on the noHma team was referencing a specific hotel when the material choices were made. It was only after the CHAMBRE was finished that the team came across Hotel Josefine, a small, fiercely detailed property in Vienna, and realized the two shared almost the exact same material language.
Six materials lined up almost point for point.
Bordeaux velvet. Josefine uses it across its curtains and seating. The CHAMBRE uses the same tone and weight on its facade and canopy dome.
A dark, dramatically veined green stone. Josefine wraps its bar in it floor to ceiling. The CHAMBRE's countertop comes from the same jewel toned stone family.
Champagne brass. Every chandelier and rail at Josefine runs in the same warm gold cast as the CHAMBRE's own framing and trim.
Open weave natural cane. Josefine's arched headboards use the same handwoven pattern that bands the CHAMBRE's canopy.
A bordeaux bullion fringe with cream tassel drops. Josefine trims its lampshades in it. It is close to an exact match for the fringe finishing the CHAMBRE's canopy edge, arguably the closest match of the six.
Warm walnut tones. They run through Josefine's millwork and floors, and reappear as the CHAMBRE's solid walnut accent pole.
Nobody planned that overlap. What it points to instead is something simpler: at the high end of hospitality design, good material instincts tend to land in the same place, whether or not the people making the choices ever compare notes.
Why This Matters to Hotel Buyers, Not Just Designers
A cart this detailed is easy to admire and harder to justify on a budget line, so it is worth being direct about the business case.
Hospitality buyers, whether that is an owner, a brand team, or a property level F&B director, consistently respond to a few things when a piece like this comes across their desk.
It creates a guest facing moment in space that would otherwise sit empty, a lobby corner, a pool deck, a rooftop
It drives direct food and beverage revenue rather than functioning as a static design object
It photographs well, which properties increasingly value as a driver of organic social reach
It can be positioned as a capital expenditure rather than an operating cost, which is an easier approval path for most ownership groups
It replaces the generic banquet cart look that guests have started to associate with a rental, not a real hospitality fixture
The CHAMBRE was designed with all of that in mind before Hotel Josefine ever entered the conversation. The coincidence with Josefine is a good story. The revenue case is the actual reason a property says yes.
Seeing It at BDNY 2026
The CHAMBRE will be on the floor at BDNY 2026, November 8 and 9 at the Javits Center in New York. Because it is a single unit, availability is limited to one buyer, with dispatch from New York on November 12, 2026, or from Seattle on December 1, 2026.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is BDNY 2026?
BDNY, short for Boutique Design New York, is an annual hospitality design trade show held at the Javits Center in New York. It brings together hotel brand teams, interior designers, and procurement and ownership groups to see new hospitality products before they reach the wider market. The 2026 edition runs November 8 and 9.
What is the CHAMBRE?
The CHAMBRE is a one of one mobile bar cart from noHma, a Seattle based hospitality furniture company. It is built from a Neolith Amazonico stone countertop, a velvet wrapped tambour facade, a custom canopy in bordeaux velvet, cane, and bullion fringe, champagne brushed aluminum accents, a solid walnut pole, and dim to warm EmeryAllen lighting.
Why is the CHAMBRE compared to Hotel Josefine in Vienna?
The CHAMBRE was designed independently, without any reference to Hotel Josefine. After it was completed, the noHma team found that the cart's material palette, bordeaux velvet, dark veined green stone, cane, brass, fringe, and walnut, closely matches the materials used throughout the hotel, despite the two having been developed with no connection to one another.
How much does the CHAMBRE cost and when is it available?
The CHAMBRE is priced at 31,500 dollars as a single, fully finished unit. It is available to dispatch from New York starting November 12, 2026, or from Seattle starting December 1, 2026.
Who supplied the CHAMBRE's materials?
The countertop stone was sourced through Evolv Surfaces and fabricated by Trio Surfaces, both based in the Seattle area. The canopy's velvet comes from Elastron Group's Paris collection. Lighting is supplied by EmeryAllen.
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