I have never understood bar stools because I am very old but our young buidlers told me i had to get some for the island thingy in our new self-catering barn so I did! I cannot begin to tell you how completely beautiful I think these are.. like Japanese torrii, just so elegant. Who could possibly have thought a bar stool could be elegant?! But yours are. I now want to fill my house with your bar stools...they really are the most handsome thing ever and even better in real life than in pictures. And RIDICULOUSLY comfortable. I could not be happier.. thank you very much indeed. Clapton Manor, Clapton-on-the-Hill