BH | Studio Lymington Horseshoe-Back Bar Stool

The horseshoe-back chair, with a single curved rail wrapping round the sitter, was a favourite form of the Ming dynasty in China, and English cabinetmakers of the eighteenth century, caught up in the fashion for the Chinese taste, borrowed freely from Chinese chairs. In the 1940s Danish makers returned to the horseshoe back itself and simplified it, pairing a steam-bent rail with a woven cord seat. The result sits as easily in a kitchen in an English harbor town like Lymington as anywhere in Scandinavia.

This bar-height stool takes the same curved top rail, dipping into a V at the centre on two bowed uprights, and lifts it on tall legs with low rails that make a foot bar. The 29-inch seat suits a bar-height counter or a pub table. The seat is woven from natural paper cord, and the solid hardwood frame comes in Driftwood, a grey-washed brown with the grain showing through, or Alabaster. It arrives fully assembled and is rated to hold 331 lbs.

Line a few along a home bar counter, where friends perch with a drink while supper finishes, or set a pair at a high bistro table in a lounge or café-style corner of the living room. Either finish with cord gives a relaxed beach-bar feel: add a galvanised bucket of ice, striped towels and a bowl of limes, or go rustic with brick and iron pendants. This listing is for one bar stool.