Mayfair Bar Stool (Lion Knocker): width, spacing and colours

The Mayfair Bar Stool (Lion Knocker) is upholstered in velvet on a chrome base, with a reinforced stitched back and a lion knocker detail. It is listed in dark grey, silver grey and mink, at one size: 64 x 60 x 100cm. Those are the biggest figures of any stool on our bar stools page, so the footprint is the first thing to work out.

64cm changes the arithmetic

A bigger footprint gives more room to sit in and is less forgiving of a short counter. Taking 64cm as the across-the-front figure, though the listing does not label which figure that is:

Those figures include no gap at all. Add spacing between each stool and at both ends, and the honest result is that a run of counter that takes three narrower stools will often take two Mayfairs. Compare it directly: the Chelsea 01 Dark Grey Bar Stool is listed at 54 x 48 x 102cm, so three Chelseas occupy 162cm against two Mayfairs at 128cm. If the counter is short and you need three seats, the narrower stool is the right answer even if you prefer this one.

The figures, and which is which

The listing prints "64 x 60 x 100cm" with no labels. The 100cm is almost certainly an overall height rather than a seat height, though the listing does not say what it is measured to. The 64cm and 60cm are the footprint, and the order is not stated, which matters here more than on a narrow stool: 60cm of depth is a lot to lose from a walkway. Confirm the width and depth with us, then mark the footprint on the floor with tape and walk past it before you commit. A galley kitchen will tell you straight away.

The seat height is not given either, and it is the one that has to match your counter. Measure from your floor to the underside of the worktop, including the overhang and anything fixed beneath it, and ask us for the seat height to compare. Nothing in the listing describes a swivel or a gas lift, so treat the height as fixed rather than adjustable.

Dark grey, silver grey or mink

All three are the same stool in the same velvet; the colour is chosen on the product page.

• Dark grey is the one that matches most of the rest of the range, so it is the safe choice if the stools will sit near other grey velvet seating.
• Silver grey is the lightest of the three and lifts a dark island. The listing gives no cleaning guidance or rub rating, so ask us about a pale velvet before it goes in a kitchen.
• Mink is the warm option and sits better with oak, walnut and brass than either grey.

Mink also appears on the Lewis Bar Stool, but the two listings describe the fabric differently, a shimmer velvet there against velvet here, so do not assume the two minks are the same tone. If you need them to live in one room, ask us to check them against each other first.

Lion knocker or ring knocker

There are two Mayfairs at this size on the same chrome base. This one carries the lion knocker; the Mayfair Bar Stool (Ring Knocker) carries a ring, and is listed in dark grey only. So if you want silver grey or mink, the lion is the version that offers them. The detail sits on the back, which at an island is the side the room sees, so choose it from where people will be standing rather than from a front-on photograph.

Before you order

The listing gives velvet, a chrome base, a reinforced stitched back, a lion knocker and the three colours. It does not give a seat height, a weight limit, a rub rating for the fabric, a colour reference or anything about assembly. Those are all worth a quick question rather than a guess.

Delivery is free within 50 miles of our Glasgow store and £50 beyond.

Sixteen photographs are on the Mayfair Bar Stool (Lion Knocker) page. If the colour you want is not among them, ask us.