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A throne for the unambitious, perfectly engineered to drop you when you've earned it least.
means A tall, often backless seat designed to bring a sitter up to the height of a bar or counter.
from A plain English compound of "bar" and "stool." "Bar" comes from Old French "barre," a rod or barrier, which by the 16th century named the counter where drinks were served — itself a kind of barrier between server and served. "Stool" is far older, from Old English "stol," a seat or chair, a word with deep Germanic roots related to "stand." Curiously, "stool" once meant a seat of honor or authority (echoed in "throne" and in old phrases like "stool of repentance") before it shrank to the humble backless perch we know — a fall in status the bar version cheerfully embraces.
- Height code
- Standard seat sits 30 inches off the floor
- No backup
- Backrests are a betrayal of the form
- Sports empire
- Barstool Sports started as a Boston print paper
- Three legs
- Tripod designs never wobble on uneven floors
- Swivel risk
- The spin feature has ejected countless overconfident patrons
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