Emtek Traditional Brass Towel Bar

Four bar widths: 12, 18, 24, and 30 inches. The 24 and 30 inch bars are the usual choice over a double vanity or a long wall run, while 12 inch works as a hand towel bar next to a single sink or beside a shower door where wall space is tight. Projection off the wall is 2-1/4 inches on the Traditional bar.

That is the point of the Emtek Traditional brass bath line. The bar's posts are offered on the same rosette designs Emtek uses on its knobs and levers: Regular, Small Regular, Oval, Rectangular, Rope, Ribbon & Reed, Arts & Crafts, Lancaster, Quincy, Watford, Wilshire, and #8. Pick the rosette that matches your existing door hardware and the same finish, and the bath and the doors read as one set. Nine finishes are offered: 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).

No. The Delaney Denali 1100 Series towel bar post only is a post for the Denali 1100 Series and is sold as a post rather than a full bar, so it is a repair part within its own series. The Emtek Traditional Brass towel bar is ordered as a bar in a chosen width of 12, 18, 24 or 30 inches with a chosen rosette, so a Denali post is not the way to put an Emtek bar back together. The same holds for the Delaney Cascade 300 Series towel bar only, which is the bar without its posts.

The Deltana 55D2002/18 is an 18 inch towel bar in solid brass from the 55D Series, and the Deltana 98C2002/18 is an 18 inch Classic towel bar in solid brass from the 98C Series. The Emtek Traditional Brass towel bar is brass as well and covers 12, 18, 24 and 30 inch widths, so the Deltana pair matches on material and on the 18 inch length while the Emtek runs the wider size range.

The Delaney Congaree 200 Series 501024K is a 24 inch towel bar set, and the Orca Hardware Camano 24 inch towel bar set from the 37-Camano Series is another 24 inch option. The Emtek Traditional Brass bar is also offered at 24 inches, but it is ordered with a rosette style chosen from twelve options including Regular, Oval, Rope, Rectangular, Ribbon and Reed, Lancaster, Quincy, Watford, Wilshire, Arts and Crafts, Small Regular and #8, so the Delaney and Orca sets are the ones to look at when the rosette choice is not part of the decision.

The Emtek Traditional Brass towel bar is the one that reaches 30 inches, alongside 12, 18 and 24 inch widths. Among the comparable bars, the stated lengths are 12 inches on the Deltana 88TB12, 18 inches on the Deltana 55D2002/18, 98C2002/18 and BBN2002/18, and 24 inches on the Delaney Congaree 200 Series 501024K and the Orca Camano. For a 30 inch run the Emtek is the match.

Projection is 2-1/4 inches. That matters in a narrow bath or a powder room where the bar sits across from a swinging door or a vanity edge, since the towel itself adds another couple of inches of bulk in front of that. Check the 2-1/4 inch figure against your door swing before you set the post locations.

Emtek classes the Traditional brass bath line as residential. For a single-family home, a condo, or an owner-occupied unit it is the right kind of product. For high-turnover commercial washrooms, a tenant bath in a large multi-family portfolio, or anywhere you expect people to hang on the bar, spec accordingly rather than assuming a residential-rated decorative bar will take that abuse.

No, and that is by design. Unlacquered Brass (US3NL) has no protective coating, so it darkens and develops a patina where hands and wet towels touch it. If you want brass that holds its shine, order Polished Brass Lifetime (US3) instead, which is the coated lifetime finish in the same range. Both are offered on the same Emtek Traditional bar in all four widths.

If matching your door hardware is not the driver, there are simpler brass bars. Deltana's solid brass towel bars cover the same sizes in several styles, the 88TB12 at 12 inches, and the 55D2002/18, 98C2002/18 and BBN2002/18 at 18 inches. Orca Hardware sells complete towel bar sets in the 27 Cypress, 36 Swirl, 37 Camano (24 inch) and 48 Blakely designs, and Delaney offers sets in the Congaree 200 (24 inch), Acadia 900 and Cascade 300 lines. What Emtek gives you that those do not is the rosette-and-finish match to Emtek knobs and levers already on your doors.

The Emtek Traditional Brass towel bar is a Traditional style piece on an American Classic theme, with rosettes such as Rope, Ribbon and Reed and Lancaster that read period rather than square. For a squared profile, the Delaney Cascade 300 Series towel bar only is the square version of that bar. The Orca Hardware 36 Series Swirl and 48 Series Blakely towel bar sets are further alternatives when the Traditional rosette look is not what the room calls for.

The Delaney Acadia 900 Series, the Delaney Congaree 200 Series 501024K at 24 inches, the Orca 27 Series Swirl, the Orca 36 Series Swirl, the Orca 48 Series Blakely and the Orca Camano at 24 inches are all towel bar sets. The Delaney Cascade 300 Series is a towel bar only in a square profile, and the Delaney Denali 1100 Series is a post only. The Emtek Traditional Brass towel bar is a residential brass bar built to a chosen width and rosette, which is what lets a fleet of bathrooms be standardized on one rosette and one finish.

Both are 18 inch towel bars: the Deltana 55D2002/18 is in the 55D Series and is described as solid brass, while the Deltana BBN2002/18 is in the BBN Series. The Emtek Traditional Brass towel bar meets them at 18 inches and is brass, and it is the one where the mounting rosette is a selection rather than fixed by the series.