If you think about bar stools for a minute, you typically get a certain image in your head of ba patrons bellied up to the bar, beer stein or cocktail in hand, chatting with the bartender and the local “Norm” at the end of the bar. Bar stools were always designed so you could sit comfortably with your elbows on the bar, which was also standard bar height, equally good for resting your elbows on when standing. Well, bar stools have evolved.

Bar stools are one of those design elements that a lot of people take for granted. Many people have never given much thought to the fact that these pieces of furniture were never found in the home, and were only ever used in commercial settings, whether that was the pub or bar down the street, the coctail bar where you went to enjoy live jazz, or at the breakfast counter at the local diner.