Bar stools for hotel bars

For many guests the bar line is the first thing they meet after the front desk. The 327 stools here dress it, in metal, wood, resin and aluminum frames. Before style, settle height: take a tape from the floor up to your bar or counter top, because a stool chosen for one is wrong at the other, and the guest feels it within a minute.

Measure the bar before the stool

Counter tops sit around 34 to 36 inches and want seats roughly 24 to 26 inches off the floor. Full bars run 40 to 42 inches, and their seats should rise to around 29 to 31. The heights listed here lean toward the bar. Thirty-one inches leads on 16 stools, with 30 on 15, 29 3/4 on 13 and 29 1/2 on 11. For a coffee counter in the lobby, the counter stools are the shorter choice.

Then count the seats. At 24 to 30 inches between stool centers, a 24-foot lobby bar holds about nine at the generous spacing and twelve at the tight one. Write the number down before you compare backs. For a bar set only for private events, the tight figure works, since guests stand as often as they sit.

Swivel, arms and the length of a stay

After six, a guest at the lobby bar may stay for one drink or for three. Swivel seats let them turn toward the room without dragging the stool, and 82 models swivel; the swivel bar stools page collects them. Arms, on 27, suit the corner seats and the quiet end of the bar. Padded backs appear on 105.

Bucket seats lead the style count with 67, followed by upholstered backs at 39, curved backs at 36 and the tolix style at 30. Pick one profile for the whole bar line. Mixed backs along a single bar look like a room furnished in pieces, and the upholstered bar stools are a good place to find one padded model for every seat.

Indoor bars and the pool bar

Most stools here, 296 of them, are listed for indoor use. Only 48 carry a patio listing, one of those for a covered patio only, and only those belong at the pool bar; the outdoor department gathers the rest of the poolside pieces. Wood frames, on 69 stools, stay inside, and the wood bar stools suit a paneled lobby bar. Thirty-five stools here stack, which helps when a bar has to be cleared for a reception.

Prices start around $79. Add the bar line to the lobby bar's property plan, with the stool count and the spacing in the notes, so the order matches the drawing.