Swivel bar stools for hotels

At a lobby bar, guests turn: toward a colleague arriving, toward the windows, toward the room. A swivel seat lets them do it without hauling the stool over the floor. The 87 stools here are all listed for indoor use, and nearly all sit on metal frames with vinyl seats. Measure your bar height first, then choose the back.

Bar height and the seat

Bar tops at 40 to 42 inches take seats of about 29 to 31 inches. The heights given here sit in that band and a touch above it: 31 inches on 15 stools, 29 3/4 and 31 1/2 on 6 each, 30 1/2 on 5, and 30 and 30 3/4 on 4 each. Measure from the floor to the bar top at your own counter before you commit, since a half inch is the difference a guest's knees notice.

Plan 24 to 30 inches between seat centers. Toward the wide end, a guest turning the seat stays clear of the next one. Ask for a vinyl swatch at the same time, since the listed colors change over time.

Bucket seats and padded backs

Bucket seats lead here on 56 stools. Their wraparound shape suits the lobby bar after six, when a stay runs long. Padded backs appear on 55 and arms on 5. Upholstery options are listed on 68, with vinyl on 81 seats, wood on 19 and fabric on 14, and vinyl is the easier choice for a bar that pours from lunch onward. When the hotel restaurant has a counter of its own, the same stool there keeps the two rooms in one profile.

For the whole bucket range, see the bucket bar stools. Every padded seat, swivel or fixed, is on the upholstered bar stools page, and armed models sit with the arm bar stools.

Fixed bars, the pool bar and the order

Where the bar line must never move, a turning seat on a fixed post does the job; every one of the bolt-down bar stools swivels. None of the stools on this page carries a patio listing, so the pool bar takes its seats from the patio-listed models in the bar stools department instead.

Single stools range from $79 to $256. Mark each seat along the bar on the lobby bar's property plan, and put the bar height in the plan notes, so the stool choice can be checked against it later.

One more figure for a bar that runs every night: swivel metal stools carry a 1-year warranty period, where metal stools that do not swivel carry 7 years.