While this chair seemed like a good buy, it was very difficult to assemble, and even then has structural difficulties. The problem is the length of the bolts that attach the arms to the seat and then the back (the arms hold the back). The base is easy to assemble and seems fine. Once I got to the arms/seat interface, however, assembly slowed to a crawl. I spent over an hour an a half trying to get the bolts through the arm and into the seat bottom. If they had been about 3/4 inch longer, there would have been no problem, but the short bolts need to be inserted into holes in the arms such that the head of the bolt is inaccessible to fingers that could manipulate it into the receiving threads in the seat. I finally went to the hardware store and bought longer bolts for the seat back, and it went together fairly quickly. However, the short bolts were already in the seat bottom. When I sat in the chair and leaned back, the bolts on the seat bottom on one arm just popped out. Getting them back in place was another struggle, and for some reason the seat bottom would not take the longer bolts I bought and used in the back. Frustrating!
Assembly problems due to poor design of bolts
While this chair seemed like a good buy, it was very difficult to assemble, and even then has structural difficulties. The problem is the length of the bolts that attach the arms to the seat and then the back (the arms hold the back). The base is easy to assemble and seems fine. Once I got to the arms/seat interface, however, assembly slowed to a crawl. I spent over an hour an a half trying to get the bolts through the arm and into the seat bottom. If they had been about 3/4 inch longer, there would have been no problem, but the short bolts need to be inserted into holes in the arms such that the head of the bolt is inaccessible to fingers that could manipulate it into the receiving threads in the seat. I finally went to the hardware store and bought longer bolts for the seat back, and it went together fairly quickly. However, the short bolts were already in the seat bottom. When I sat in the chair and leaned back, the bolts on the seat bottom on one arm just popped out. Getting them back in place was another struggle, and for some reason the seat bottom would not take the longer bolts I bought and used in the back. Frustrating!