Light Brown Upholstered Counter Stool with Open Back (YM-1020-21) by Moe's Home Collection
18.1"W x 21.3"D x 36.8"H
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Light Brown Upholstered Counter Stool with Open Back (YM-1020-21) by Moe's Home Collection
Light Brown Upholstered Counter Stool with Open Back | 36 Inch | Counter Stool
The dining chair design elevated to counter height -- same open back cut-out, same fabric-wrapped legs, same all-over upholstery -- but at 36.8 inches the longer legs change the piece's proportions substantially. Where the dining chair reads as a compact upholstered form, the counter stool reads taller and more column-like: the long fabric-wrapped legs are now the dominant visual element below the seat, and a dark iron footrest rail crosses between the front legs at mid-height. That footrest is the only exposed metal in the piece, and the contrast between the light brown fabric and the dark iron bar is the stool's one deliberate tonal accent.
The open back cut-out that defines the design reads differently at counter height than it does at dining height. Seen from counter level, you're closer to the cut-out and it reads as a structural breathing point. From across the room at standing height, the silhouette is dominated by the long vertical legs and the floating seat above -- the cut-out becomes a secondary detail rather than the primary gesture.
At 18.1 by 21.3 by 36.8 inches this is a compact stool. The fabric-wrapped legs means it reads more softly at a kitchen counter than metal-leg alternatives -- less industrial, more residential. Worth noting plainly: upholstered surfaces in counter use require more regular care than hard materials, and the proximity to food preparation is a practical factor worth considering.
- Dimensions: 18.1W x 21.3D x 36.8H inches
- Weight: 17 lbs
- 100% polyester upholstery -- iron frame -- foam seat
- Open back cut-out -- fabric-wrapped legs -- dark iron footrest rail
18.1"W x 21.3"D x 36.8"H
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Moe's Home Collection:Forty Years of Furniture With a Point of View
Some brands earn trust loudly. Moe's has never needed to. The evidence shows up in rooms, season after season, in pieces that end up feeling more considered than their owners quite anticipated. More grounded. More alive.
That doesn't happen by accident. It happens because someone decided, a long time ago, that material and craft were worth the extra conversation, and never really stopped having it.
A Design House, Not a Furniture Factory
The Pieces Feel Found - Not Simply Bought
The Origin
A Family That BuiltSomething From Nothing
Moe Samieian Sr. arrived in Canada with an engineering degree and almost nowhere to use it. So he sold rugs at road shows, worked on commission, and learned the retail floor through years of direct customer contact.
In 1986 he opened his first store in Vancouver. Walking the trade shows, he kept noticing the same thing: most furniture looked identical. So he started hunting for pieces with something to say. Antiques. Flea-market finds. Objects with texture and history. More stores followed, and in 1999 he moved decisively into wholesale.
His children Sara and Moe Jr. carried that instinct forward. Not what merely sells. What resonates. That distinction still drives every collection.
The materials earn their place. Wood warms the edges. Stone steadies the eye. Steel adds tension. Glass lets the composition breathe. A hand-worked surface keeps a modern room from feeling too resolved.
The goal was never perfection. It was presence.
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The Craft
Material First - Trend Second
Every collection is designed in-house, then built through a manufacturing network developed over decades. Vietnam, India, Italy, Poland, Canada, the USA. Not the lowest-cost option in any of those places. Long-term makers who've been held to the same standards long enough that the standards stopped needing to be explained.
The construction is what you'd expect from that kind of relationship. Solid hardwood frames. High-density foam. Hardware that doesn't announce itself by failing early. These are not selling points so much as baseline expectations that a lot of furniture quietly fails to meet.
The materials go further than that. Acacia grain that no engineered surface comes close to replicating. Stone that grounds a room both visually and physically, which are different things and both matter. Mixed metals chosen for tension rather than coordination. FSC-certified wood and responsible sourcing throughout, though the more honest argument for it shows up over time, in how the pieces age rather than what the spec sheet says.
- Moe's does not source furniture. It curates it.
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