Need a bit more movement in your seating? The swivel chair is here to save the day. Whether you’re looking to swing amidst your filing cabinets in the office, swing around to lounge visitors in a grandiose style, or lean back in your chair to greater dinner table conversation, we’ve got a chair style for you. Get the complete office suite, with a brown leather Eames-style lounge and ottoman. Snuggle into a monochrome pod, taking a nap in its nook inspired by the future. Expect the unexpected, with a plywood find curved to resemble an armchair. Get creative – and swivel around to – our top fifty selection of contemporary swivel chairs for your home or office.
Eames-Style, Mid-Century Modern Swivel Lounge Chair
Legendary designer Ray Eames knew how to design a chair to relax in. This chair in his iconic style is made with Italian leather, a walnut veneer frame and a matching ottoman you can buy for its side. Original is available here.
Arne Jacobsen-Style Swivel Egg Chair
Available in four bold shades of velvet, this chair in the style of Arne’s Jacobsen’s famed design is a sight less expensive. Its deep contours allow for maximum comfort, its steel base a sturdy frame you can swivel on.
Verner Panton-Style Cone Chair
Another iconic design at a cheaper price, this red Panton-esque find could strike a pose in your office. A steel base, hardwood frame and cashmere upholstery add comfort to function.
Arne Jacobsen-Style Swivel Swan Chair
Get a design that looks like the original, in your choice of ten shades. This Arne Jacobsen replica swivels dreamily around your living room, in its wool upholstery and fibreglass shell. High-density foam cushioning makes it feel softer.
Eero Aarnio-Style Swivel Ball Chair
Prefer a more futuristic-looking design? A replica of Eero Aarnio’s semi-sphere frame, this version is made from fibreglass and five removeable fabric panels. Its swivel functions on a ball-bearing mechanism.
Swivel Accent Chair
Are you sure this chair can swivel? Despite its solid-looking frame, this polyester blend on a base of stainless steel conforms to your body with its swivel intact. It is based on the original Papilio chair. You can find a cheaper replica here or here.
Barletta Swivel Armchair
Offering a whopping 368 choices of fabric, this chair is well-made when it turns its barrel.
Modern Grey Swivel Armchair
100% linen covers this understated armchair, which surprises and delights with its 360-degree swivel. High-density foam filling and a lumbar-supporting backrest make it the perfect spot to lean back and read a book on.
Modern Swivel Recliner
Want to get those feet up, too? This polyurethane recliner offers a hidden footrest and 360-degree swivel. Get it in your choice of grey or black.
Bludot Modern-Style Bent Plywood Swivel Chair
A swivel armchair with a wooden seat? What a surprise! This innovative design bends plywood to create a beautiful chair from a collaborative process. Get its swivel base in brushed or powder-coated stainless steel.
Modern Minimalist Round Swivel Chair
Swivel chairs are perfect for the lounge. This rounded grey number is halfway between an armchair and lounge suite, with 1.8 density foam and an accent pillow framing its sides.
Patterned Swivel Barrel Chair
Create a lounge feature piece, by buying a chair with a distinctive pattern. This polyester fabric chair sits on a solid birch wood, swivelling frame. Take advantage of its 90-day warranty.
Wooden Swivel Chair
Have a disabled or elderly family member who finds it difficult to turn? This solid wooden chair rotates 360 degrees – and sponge padding makes it comfy.
Taxido Blue Swivel Lounge Chair
Contemporary-looking in their Italian design, these elliptical lounge chairs rock you to and fro’, with a rocking base set in solid beechwood and chromed steel. Cold-injected polyurethane foam and polyester padding make it comfortable, too.
Cocoon-Style Red Swivel Lounge Chair
Let the cocoon take you in. Available in six other colours, its striking curves and stainless steel base would make an alluring partner in your home office.
Grand Repose Chair
Looking for a swivel chair you can sink some budget into? Designed by Antonio Citterio, this chair combines moulded polyurethane foam, a feather-filled neck pillow, and an integrated mechanism that synchronises to your body. Made in Hungary, it swivels your frame on a four-point base.
Modern Swivel Base Lounge Wing Chair
This feature chair could add a stylish edge to your lounge or office. Clad in cashmere, its pea-green form is stitched and crafted by hand; its swivel mechanism grounded on a four-star stainless steel base. Its multi-density foam cushion is zippered and removeable.
Grey Modern Living Room Swivel Chair
Want to move your swivel chair from lounge to office? This high-backed lounger suits both spaces, atop its brushed nickel and steel pedestal. Choose from a variety of fabrics and frames.
Modern-Style Yellow Swivel Lounge Chair
Originally designed for dining, this modern yellow number sits upon four-star, matte-brushed nickel legs. Its feet can be adjusted to level the floor, and are tipped in plastic to avoid scratches.
Modern Pastel Pink Swivel Accent Chair With Wooden Legs
Get a little more pretty in pink. This gorgeous, soft fabric find is based on a solid frame supporting up to 350 pounds.
Alma Swivel Accent Armchair
This Italian-made chair knows how to end your day. Placing straight and curved lines along the curves of your body, its detailed stitching gives it design cred, too. Get it with a one-year warranty.
Comfy Blue Swivel Chair
Surprise guests with a nifty turn in this blue armchair, afforded rotation on its feather-swivel base.
Modern Plush Swivel Accent Chair
Get a chair that feels like a soft toy. Also available in blue or yellow, this extremely comfortable find turns 360 degrees.
Mid-Century Modern Style Swivel Accent Chair
Find a bit more structure in your favourite chair. Coloured cardinal red, to miss the cost-efficient contours of this beech wood find would be a sin.
Oversized Round Swivel Chair
Snuggle into this chair at the end of your day. With chenille-wrapped cushioning and a curved back, it’ll be hard to get back up from its faux-leather exterior.
Outdoor Swivel Papasan Chair
Take your swivelling outside. Set on a sturdy steel frame with a UV-resistant cushion, its relaxed frame can turn you 360 degrees.
Helinox Outdoor Swivel Chair
Take your swivel chair away camping. This lightweight find is easy to store in its storage sack, and features breathable mesh on its sides.
Black Swivel Dining Chair
This chair’s grey faux leather on chrome-polished legs can take you to the office and back again.
Grey Modern Swivel Dining Chair
Aid your guests in their dining experience, by offering them this leatherette chair. Its swivelling frame will inspire conversation.
Tilda Black Fabric Swivel Chair
Upholstered in 100% Dacron, these swivel chairs are minimalist, understated, and suited to a range of rooms and interiors.
Upholstered Red Swivel Dining Chair With Steel Base
Initially intended for dining, these sleek, wool-upholstered swivellers would be perfect for the office. Take advantage of their steel bases and plastic-tipped feet - and find the colour that suits you here.
Small White Round Swivel Chair
Accentuate a white office or dressing room with this faux leather chair. Featuring diamond tufting and a 360-degree swivel, it can adjust its stem to your perfect height.
Modern Leather Swivel Chair
Looking for something a bit more masculine? These polyurethane seats on steel legs and plywood frames are a stylish alternative that won’t break the budget.
Saarinen-Style Tulip Swivel Dining Chair
The Saarinen Tulip is a classic design, and these replicas their cheaper alternatives. Supported by an aluminium base and featuring a 360-degree swivel, you can change their seat cushions out in 13 different colours.
Saarinen-Style Tulip Swivel Dining Armchair
Prefer an armchair style? Offering the same features as its sister, this option gives yours arms a ledge to hold onto.
Fine Mod Blossom Swivel Dining Chair
Sold as a set of two, these swivel dining chairs are based on the Flow Chair Padded, a cult favourite designed by Jean Marie Massaud. These versions appear on an aluminium base with a lacquered, light gloss finish.
Modern Dining Chair With Swivel Base
Another original design by Jean Marie Massaud, the Flow Chair With Oak Base is the perfect partner for your dining room table. Conceived as an organic form reduced to essential lines, its polycarbonate, injection-moulded steel can swing 360 degrees.
Upholstered Modern Swivel Dining Chair With Oak Base
Designed by Luca Nichetto, the Moooi Canal Chair Swivel Base was inspired by a historical ship model that dominated the Mediterranean sea. Its back resembles the bow of a boat, its tone-on-tone hues its subtle focus.
Masculo Swivel Dining Chair
Showcasing an unusual, wide-set frame, these dining chairs were concepted by Copenhagen’s Gubi Masculo. Buy them in Kvadrat fabric or fine leather.
Stylish Modern Swivel Desk Chair
This Scandinavian-inspired chair is perfect for a kid-filled household. Its plastic base and four straight beech wood legs are sturdy, wipeable and offer a 360-degree swivel.
Height-Adjustable Swivel Desk Chair
Inspired by the Saarinen Tulip, this chair, with comes with one identical as a set, is made from chromed metal with a foam cushion.
Minimalist-Style Swivel Desk Chair
Looking for something functional, yet simple? This anthracite ecoleather chair fits the bill, on its chromed steel legs.
Stylish Swivel Base Desk Chair
Buy a desk chair that’s packed with style. The Tom Dixon Y Chair Swivel Base is injection-moulded in glass-reinforced nylon, and then sandblasted and lacquered on an aluminium swivel base. Made in Denmark.
About A Chair With Swivel Base
Truly “all about the chair”, this creation by Hee Welling is made in Denmark out of powder-coated aluminium. Available in white or black.
Beetle Swivel Base Meeting Chair
Looking a little bit vintage, these stylish finds take inspiration from the common garden beetle. Get their upholstery in a range of different shades, and their chair legs in a matte black or brass finish.
Mid-Century Modern Swivel Base Desk Chair
Loved the wooden armchair from earlier on this article, but just didn’t have the budget? This cheaper option offers a faux-leather seat and a height you can extend from 29 to 33 inches.
Modway Ribbed High Back Executive Swivel Chair
Take the high road the next time you’re in the office. This high-backed computer chair is available in eight additional colourways, and boasts a 360-degree swivel and one-touch height adjustment. Roll around on its wheels, or check out our desk chair post to find the perfect companion for your modern home office desk.
Nursery Swivel Glider Chair
Just had, or about to have, a baby? Seat yourself on this foam-padded chair to swivel from cot to seat.
Height-Adjustable Kids' Swivel Chair
Get your kids business-ready. This children’s office chair is ergonomically-contoured on a steel frame with locking casters. Adjust its height from 12 to 21 inches, with an easy-to-use twist and lock knob. Check out our kid's chair post for more kids’ room ideas.
Nemo Swivel Chair
Get a swivel chair and artpiece in one. Designed by Fabio Novembre in 2009, its back masks, made out of single pieces of polyethylene plastic, are modelled on traditional Greek theatre displays. Made in Italy, they’re only for the indoors.
