Emtek Traditional Brass Double Towel Bar

That is the point of the rosette axis. The mounting posts come in twelve rosette designs, Regular, Small Regular, Oval, Rope, Rectangular, Arts and Crafts Rectangular, Ribbon and Reed, #8, Lancaster, Quincy, Watford, and Wilshire, which are the same design language Emtek uses on its door rosettes. Pick the rosette that matches the door hardware on the same floor and the bath reads as one set.

Emtek lists this one as residential. For an owner-occupied home, a custom bath, or a high-end single-family remodel it is the right piece. For a hotel corridor of rooms or a multi-family turn package where the bar gets pulled on daily by people who do not own it, look at a commercial-duty bath accessory line instead. The finish range here, especially unlacquered brass, is chosen for appearance rather than abuse.

Three choices, all required: bar length (18, 24, or 30 inches), rosette design (twelve to pick from, including Regular, Rope, Ribbon and Reed, Lancaster and Wilshire), and finish (nine, from Flat Black to Unlacquered Brass). Settle the rosette first if you are matching existing Emtek door hardware, then the finish, then measure the wall run for length.

The Deltana 55D2002/18 is an 18 inch solid brass towel bar in the 55D Series, and the Deltana 98C2002/18 is an 18 inch solid brass Classic bar in the 98C Series. Both match the Emtek Traditional bar in material and in the 18 inch length. The difference is the bar count: the Emtek Traditional is a double bar, so it carries two rails on one set of posts, while the Deltana bars are single rail. If a bath needs two towels hung in the width of one mounting run, the double bar is the one that does it; if a single rail is enough, either Deltana 18 inch bar covers the same span.

The Deltana 88TB12 is a 12 inch solid brass towel bar in the 88 Series, which fits a narrower run than the Emtek Traditional brass double bar, whose shortest length is 18 inches. In a powder room or a stretch of wall between a vanity and a door casing, the 12 inch bar is the one that lands. Above 18 inches the Emtek Traditional comes in 18 inch, 24 inch and 30 inch lengths.

No. The Emtek Traditional brass double towel bar is a complete double bar with its rosettes, so it is what you order when you are putting a new assembly on the wall. For a rail-only replacement, the Delaney Cascade 300 Series DLY-CASCADE-TBO-SQ is a towel bar only in a square profile, and the Delaney Denali 1100 Series DLY-DENALI-TBPO is a towel bar post only. Those two are the parts to pull when one half of an existing Delaney assembly is damaged and the other half stays on the wall.

The Emtek Traditional brass double towel bar goes to 30 inches, its longest length, and at that width it still carries two rails on one mounting run. Among the alternatives, the named lengths run shorter: the Delaney Congaree 200 Series DLY-501024K and the Orca Camano 37 Series ORC-3724 are 24 inch sets, and the Deltana 55D2002/18, 98C2002/18 and BBN2002/18 are 18 inch bars. For a 30 inch span in a master bath, the Emtek Traditional 30 inch is the one that reaches.

2-1/4 inches of projection. That is the number that matters in a narrow bath: a double bar carries two towels front to back within that same 2-1/4 inches, so it holds twice the drying capacity of a single bar without taking any more wall depth.

Nine finishes: Flat Black (US19), French Antique (US7), Oil Rubbed Bronze (US10B), Pewter (US15A), Polished Brass Lifetime (US3), Polished Chrome (US26), Polished Nickel (US14), Satin Nickel (US15), and Unlacquered Brass (US3NL). Two of those behave differently over time. Unlacquered brass has no clear coat and will patina with handling and humidity, which is what people want in a period bath but not what a property manager wants on a turn. Polished Brass Lifetime is the coated one that stays put.

Brass, both the material and the substrate, not a plated tube over steel. In a bath that matters for the posts more than the bar, since the wall anchors and the post are what take the pull when someone yanks a towel down.

A double bar puts two rails on one pair of posts, so two towels dry on one set of wall anchors and one 2-1/4 inch projection. Use it when wall space is short, a kids bath or a powder room with one clear run of wall. Use two singles at separate heights when each person wants their own bar and you have the wall to give, or when the towels are bath sheets that need full width to dry.

Deltana is the closest cross-shop on material. The 55D2002/18 and the 98C Series Classic 98C2002/18 are both solid brass 18 inch bars, and the BBN2002/18 is another 18 inch option. The Deltana 88TB12 is a 12 inch bar in solid brass, useful in a powder room where 18 inches will not fit. Those are single bars, so if you specifically need two rails on one set of posts, the Emtek double is the one that does it.

The Delaney Congaree 200 Series DLY-501024K is a 24 inch towel bar set, and the Orca Hardware Camano 37 Series ORC-3724 is a 24 inch towel bar set. Both are sold as sets. The Emtek Traditional brass double bar also comes in a 24 inch width, in brass, and is a double rail rather than a single. Where a job calls for the same 24 inch mounting span across several baths, all three land on the same centers; the choice is between one rail and two, and between the styling of the three programs.

The Emtek Traditional brass double towel bar is a Traditional style piece on an American Classic theme, and it carries rosette choices including Ribbon and Reed, Rope, Lancaster and Wilshire, which are the details that set the period look. The Deltana 98C2002/18 is an 18 inch Classic bar in the 98C Series. Moving away from that vocabulary, the Delaney Cascade 300 Series towel bar is a square profile, and the Orca 36 Series and Orca 27 Series are Swirl bar sets. Square and swirl are different design languages, so they will not read as a match next to a rope or ribbon and reed rosette on an adjacent wall.

The Emtek Traditional brass double towel bar runs nine finishes, including Flat Black US19, Oil Rubbed Bronze US10B, Polished Chrome US26, Polished Nickel US14, Satin Nickel US15, Polished Brass Lifetime US3 and Unlacquered Brass US3NL, so it can be specified to the same US finish code as the lockset going on the door. That US-coded finish range and the twelve rosette choices are what let it be standardized across a building. Among the alternatives, the Delaney Acadia 900 Series and Orca Blakely 48 Series are sold as towel bar sets in their own series programs.

It is built for exactly that. Emtek files this one as Traditional in an American Classic theme, and the rosette list backs it up, Rope, Ribbon and Reed, Lancaster, Watford and Wilshire are period profiles rather than contemporary ones. Pair French Antique, Oil Rubbed Bronze or Unlacquered Brass with those and it reads as original to an older house. If the bath is modern, the Arts and Crafts Rectangular or plain Rectangular rosette in Polished Chrome or Satin Nickel is the cleaner look.

The Emtek Traditional brass double towel bar is a residential piece, in brass, on a Traditional styling program. That suits apartment turns, single-family and hospitality guest baths where the look matters. The alternatives in the same size range include the Deltana BBN2002/18, an 18 inch bar in the BBN Series, and the Deltana 88TB12, a 12 inch solid brass bar in the 88 Series.