BH | Studio Malton Woven-Seat Bar Stools, Set of 2

The high stool with a woven seat is as old as the country kitchen and the village workshop, where someone always needed to sit up at a bench, and country makers in the north of England rushed their seats by hand for generations. Mid-twentieth-century Scandinavian makers gave it a back and a cleaner frame, and wove the seat from paper cord in place of rush, so it could join the family at the counter.

Built taller for bar-height counters, each stool has a broad back panel, long square-section legs and a natural straw-coloured seat of tightly woven paper cord, braced by an X-shaped stretcher of crossed rails. The 28.7-inch seat suits a bar counter or a pub-height table. The 100% solid hardwood frame is Honey, a warm golden finish, or Jet, on non-marking glides, and each stool is rated to hold 517 lbs. Both arrive assembled.

They suit a home bar or a high kitchen counter in a family room, where friends gather with a drink while the game is on, or a pub table in a basement den. Either finish, natural cord and green glass bottles on an open shelf give a relaxed country-pub warmth; add a well-thumbed cocktail book and a brass bar cart. This listing is for a set of two bar stools.