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Upholstered bar stools

Cantilever stool frames in polished stainless, taken from bare frame through to buttoned velvet seats.

Finished bar stool with a buttoned black velvet seat and back on a polished stainless cantilever frame

A cantilever frame is deceptively hard. There’s no back leg, so everything the sitter does is carried by one continuous bend and the joint at the bottom of it, which is exactly where a badly-made stool fails.

These were built as a matched set, frames first, then off to be upholstered in buttoned velvet. The footrail is set at the height it needs to be for a counter, not at the height that happens to look right on the frame.

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The finished upholstered bar stool from the side, showing the sled base and footrail

A pair of bare stainless stool frames laid on paving, showing the repeated cantilever geometry

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Finished console table with a matt black steel frame and a stained hardwood top, standing on a paved driveway

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Polished stainless steel table base with angled legs and a square top frame, on paving

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Set of hand-made wire lampshade frames beside the original woven rattan shade they were copied from

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Fourways & northern suburbs

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