Gold post
Gold Rope Stanchion Rental in Montreal
Gold posts carrying a 5 ft velvet rope. This is the assembly everyone already has in mind when they hear "red carpet", and the one a black-tie room never has to have explained.
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Specifications
| Post | Gold post |
|---|---|
| Rope colours | Red, black, white, dark green, pink, navy, blue, green, purple |
| Rope length | 5 ft |
| Rope material | Velvet |
| Rope connection | Carabiner clip |
| Dimensions | 12.6 × 12.6 × 35 in (32 × 32 × 89 cm) |
| Base weight | 8.3 kg (~18 lb) |
| Rental period | From 1 day to a month+ |
The post and its rope are a single item on the quote — a rope hanging on a post is never invoiced separately. What moves the figure is how many posts the layout takes and for how many days. How we quote →
Our stanchions in action
The gold post as it stands once the room is ready.
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Choose your rope colour
Polished chrome hangs silver ends; gold and black posts both hang gold. The two are never mixed. Nine gold-end colours hang on this post.
Red
Gold ends
Black
Gold ends
White
Gold ends
Dark green
Gold ends
Pink
Gold ends
Navy
Gold ends
Blue
Gold ends
Green
Gold ends
Purple
Gold ends
Why choose the gold post
Almost every photograph taken at a gala comes from the same few places: the arrival, the photo wall, the entrance to the head table. The gold post is in the frame of each of them, and it reads there as part of the decor rather than as crowd control equipment. It is the only one of the three post colours you can say that about.
The post does not change from one evening to the next; the rope does. Red and black are the two that leave most often on this post, while dark green, navy, pink and purple exist for the times the rope has to pick up a colour somebody else has set — a logo, a room dressing, a sponsor palette. A wedding, a fundraiser and a corporate gala can run a week apart on the same posts.
Montreal has a great many older rooms — stone, panelling, brass hardware — and gold is the only one of the three posts that already belongs to that vocabulary. In a newer room, all glass and concrete, the opposite happens: gold cuts against it, deliberately, and that contrast is often exactly what an arrival needs.