6 Best Bar Stool Italian Manufacturers

Introduction

Stools are considered as one of the earliest forms of wooden furniture despite the fact that the origin of this type of seating remains obscure. In the early times, stools were made backless, compared to a large portion of modern stools that have backrest. In modern times, the term “stool” has become blurred, or say, more inclusive. After all, stools are created and manufactured to satisfy people’s daily need, which must keep changing for the better. Therefore, a stool manufacturer that values stool design innovation, technology and crafts development is more likely to survive and even surpass its competitor.

Today, we are going to look into six of the best made-in-Italy garden stool manufacturers that have made beautiful stool designs.

Below is the table of contents for the remainder of this article:

1. MAGIS
2. Opinion Ciatti
3. Kartell
4. AlbaComponents
5. Ethimo
6. emu
7. Coets

6 Italian Stool Suppliers

1. MAGIS

• Company Name: MAGIS
• Type of Business: Furniture Manufacture & Design Company
• Year Established: 1976
• Location: Torre di Mosto, Italy

The story of MAGIS is one of ideas, innovations and experimentation. It considers itself a design laboratory, indicating its emphasis on ingenuity and exploring desire. Hence, MAGIS welcomes and recruits young and emerging talents, who can think bold and act bold, “unafraid to dare”.

Bureaurama stool and table is made of aluminum painted in polyester powder. Suitable for outdoor use. Stools are available in blue, yellow, fluorescent orange, grey, black splattered white. Tables are finished in black splattered white.

2. Opinion Ciatti

• Company Name: Opinion Ciatti
• Type of Business: Furniture Manufacturer
• Year Established: 1950
• Location: Florence, Italy

Opinion Ciatti company mission is to “design furniture that makes life easier and take care of the people who use them”. Its product collections comprise bookcases, tables, chairs for the home, the workplace, and public areas.

Florence, the homeland of Opinion Ciatti, is the root that inspires the collection of #FollowYourRoots, which became a milestone of 2014 in the company history.

The journey is still going on. Opinion Ciatti is always ready to adapt to new challenges, in terms of products and materials, residential and contract projects, supply chain and customer relationship. They believe that there’s nothing a courageous, passionate Opinion Ciatti person can’t do.

Mammamia High is the stool version of the original Mammamia chair by Marcello Ziliani. It features ergonomic die-cast aluminum shell, steel structure including 4 thin and attractive legs, and rubber-covered footrest that forms a “C” shape and tilts slightly. Available in two different heights:64mm/74mm. Non-stackable. Finishes include: metallic finishes, silver or gold; matt finishes, textured coating with concrete or bronze effect; glossy finishes, aluminum with mirror finish, gold leaf, silver leaf, copper leaf. Accessories include foot caps, felt cushion.

3. Kartell

• Company Name: Kartell
• Type of Business: Manufacturer of Furniture, Lighting, Tableware and Other Accessories
• Year Established: 1949
• Location: Noviglio, Milan, Italy

Kartell products cover a wide range: seating, tables, lighting, furnishing accessories, tableware, etc. Over the years, Kartell has won a series of important international awards, such as Reddot Design, Compassi d’Oro, and the Guggenheim Enterprise & Culture Award for best business museum in 2000.

The success of Kartell products come along with counterfeits and imitations, therefore it works even harder to guarantee its products’ originality and quality, by investing massively in technology development, for instance, artificial intelligence, which enables Kartell to bridge traditional furniture and cutting-edge appliances, leading the end users of Kartell to a more convenient and smart-living future.

Look familiar? Right, this is the stool version of Reddot design award best of the best 2013 winning chair: MASTERS. Characterized by its unique sinuous backrest design, MASTERS is light and practical, also available in metallic finishes that empower it with extra special effect. Classic design never fades; the stool is still available at Kartell shopping website.

4. AlbaComponents

• Company Name: AlbaComponents from Metalmeccanica Alba
• Type of Business: Manufacturer of furniture components
• Year Established: 1990s
• Location: Treviso, Italy

AlbaComponents is a brand of Metalmeccanica Alba in the design, production, and marketing of table and chair frames, including frames of slide, 4-legs, swivel, bench, sofa, bookshelf, table, and so on. Its aim is to offer solutions of beautiful, innovative, functional and versatile products. They are confident since this company started initially as a group of in-house Research and Development experts in Treviso, Italy. Over the decades, they have persevered in acquiring extensive expertise and adopting advanced technologies, and hence being able to respond to every request of their customers with a highly unique, creative and functional approach.

Paco is intended for every contract environment with a full contemporary style: comfortable plastic seat in optional colors of solid balck, mild beige, and mystery blue. Stool base is in curved shape, gracefully contoured, with glossy finishes.

5. ETHIMO

• Company Name: Ethimo
• Type of Business: Outdoor Furniture Manufacturer
• Year Established: 1980s
• Location: Vitorchiano, Viterbo, Italy

Significantly influenced by Mediterranean culture and landscape, Ethimo has built up its company value as keeping a good balance between beauty, nature, culture and tradition in outdoor furniture design and manufacturing. It was the first to bring a complete line dedicated to the mountains and received wide acceptance of the market.

With 40 years of experience in outdoor living and joint effort from international designers, Ethimo has inspired a series of collections that blend traditions effortlessly with up-to-date trends.

The garden high stool Swing is well-suited for bars, cafés, restaurants and hotels. Structure color is available in aluminum warmwhite, and aluminum sepia black. Finishes include natural teak and pickled teak. Optional cushions are available in acrylic nature grey and polypropylene black & white chess.

6. emu

Source: emu

• Company Name: emu
• Type of Business: Contract & Home Outdoor Furniture Manufacturer
• Year Established: 1951
• Location: Terni, Umbria, Italy

EMU used roughly 20 years to get to the stage when it had accumulated fairly enough collections of the company’s greatest hits. One of them is the Rio armchair. Initially, it was classified as garden chair; then, two American operators showcased Rio in their warehouse advertising that it fit all environments. Since then, Rio became incredibly popular for many years.

However, there were two more important things happened in EMU’s growth process. One is its partnership with IKEA during 1980s and ‘90s, facilitating the project of large-scale automated production plant and global distribution. The other is the LVMH becoming a big shareholder of EMU in 2005, during which period the company started working with international major designers and successfully entered the market niche called “accessible luxury”.

EMU dedicates itself to working with and protecting metal. The Cannole seating system has a welded structure made up of steel tubes, with slim legs made of tubular steel. The collection consists of: Corner module sofa, linear module sofa, pouf, lounge chair and low table.

The most eye-catching part of Aero is its striking geometric structure: thin and long lines of steel legs, slightly curved steel seat and backrest. Extremely light, stable, adaptable to any context. The Aero range is composed of relaxing armchairs, dining chairs and stools, for both residential and contract environments. A rectangular magnetic cushion is optional to make seating more comfortable.

Steel products need a bit extra care during winter, when you should take this product indoor and keep it in a dry place to prevent condensate from forming. In other time during the year, on a quarterly basis, you could clean the surface of the product with a wet soft cloth using detergent. After wiping wet, let it dry for a while and apply some Vaseline oil or car wax.

7.Coets

• Company Name: Coets
• Type of Business: Manufacturer of Outdoor Dining Tables and Chairs
• Year Established: 2009
• Location: Foshan, Guangdong, China

Coets is a brand of Leisure Touch, a furniture company that specializes in brush aluminum dining tables and chairs. Based in Lecong Town, a well-known place of furniture industry in China, Coets has a strong and competitive supply chain of design, purchase, production, and sales. Coets maintain a steady growth through the years due to its continuous research and development in outdoor furniture material, craftsmanship, and technologies.

Below is the stool collection at Coets.

Armrest High Bar Stool Joe

Hospitality Bar Stool Claire

Patio Armrest Bar Stool Claire

Conclusion

Stools became exceptionally common in pubs, bars and diners, as well as hairdressers and barbes in Europe and the US during 1950s and 60s. And this trend has been on till today. If you are working on a plan for your dream pub, bar or restaurant, stools are definitely the kind of furniture that you find most practical.

Coets has spent years of hardship in researching and developing new material and craftsmanship for outdoor patio stools. We will be happy to receive your comments on our stool design and will be motivated remarkably by your choosing us as your outdoor furniture supplier.