Home Interiors: Six of the best tall stools 

We take a perch on some iconic bar stools and breakfast elevators to pair with counters, bars, and work benches

Tom Bar Stool 70-86cm designed by Konstantin Grcic for Magis. 

Tall stools have a wonderful vertical lift, and staged by counters, bars, and work benches, they are multi-purpose jesters. Here’s my choice of six of the best, with some lofty design style chops, all of which can be found second-hand, or used as inspiration for similar seating available at a fraction of the price on the high street.

With the intertwining lines of design gods Arne Jacobsen, Eero Saarinen and Charles Eames, the Master’s Chair (from €395, kartell.com) was created for Kartell by Philippe Starck and Eugeni Quitllet in 2010. With its whiplash chic available to enjoy from every angle, the only thing that could make its airy sketch any better are longer legs to raise it into our eyeline. The embrace of three silhouettes in this fabulous backed stool, makes it supportive, comfortable and in a giving plastic, it yields ever so slightly to the back, and can safely be left outside for the summer.