Rope Stanchions
Gold Rope Stanchion Rentals
Rent polished gold posts for the walk your guests are photographed on, each one carrying a 5 ft velvet rope in the colour you pick.
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Specifications
Count the posts, then count the gaps.
A rope spans the space between two posts, so a straight run always carries one fewer rope than it has posts — ten posts down a walk take nine ropes. Close the run into a loop and the tenth goes in. It is the single most common correction we make to an order and a rope short is always a gap at the end everybody photographs.
| Height | 89 cm (35 in) |
|---|---|
| Rope length | 5 ft (1.52 m) |
| Working spacing | About 4 ft between posts, set by the drop of the rope |
| Rope colour | Nine to choose from — red, black, white, dark green, pink, navy, blue, green and purple, all on gold end caps |
| Post finish | Polished gold, post and base |
| Post top | Ball finial |
| Rope fixing | Carabiner clip at each end |
In action
Gold posts on arrivals we have delivered.
The rope that comes with it
Choose the rope colour this post will carry.
Red 
Black 
White 
Dark green 
Green 
Navy 
Blue 
Purple 
Pink
What it is good at
Six arrivals built on this post.
Red-carpet arrivals
Posts down both edges with the rope at hip height, leaving room behind the line for a photographer to step back without leaving the carpet.
Press walls and step-and-repeat
Holding media on one side and guests on the other, with a fixed distance in front of the wall so talent stops where the lighting is aimed.
Gala and award-night entrances
The walk from the door to the room on a black-tie evening — the combination nobody has to have explained to them, which is most of why it is chosen.
Registration counters
Two or three posts turn an approach into a queue with a beginning, so guests join at one end instead of fanning across the front of the desk while staff decide who was first.
Ceremony and award aisles
Two facing runs hold a walked aisle open across a floor otherwise full of chairs. The ropes go on last, once the walked width is agreed on site.
Roped-off displays and closed areas
A loop around a plinth, an exhibit or a lounge that has not opened. It reads as "not this way" from across a lobby and comes apart in a minute when the space does open.
The usual add-on
Gold posts want red under them.
Nearly every gold run we send out goes down either side of a runner, because the posts mark the edges of a route and the carpet is the route itself. Red is the pairing people picture, it comes in enough ready-cut lengths that most walks are covered off the shelf — an exact one is cut for an extra charge — and it is what turns a doorway into an arrival before anybody is close enough to read a sign.
See carpet runners