Just got this chair yesterday and my maintenance specialist boyfriend had to pound on the back to get it to set into place and line up correctly. This is a guy who fixes enormous machinery for a living, is 63 and no slouch. Still, he had to muscle it into place so it is not easy to put together and may take two people if theyre on the smaller side or not especially strong. The HUGE disappointment is that the legs of this chair are made from flimsy hollow plastic. I mean, theyre absolute trash that I am sure will crack, dry out, and become useless pretty rapidly. I also suspect that they will weaken in the place I am using this chair—near a large fireplace. Heat and flimsy garbage plastic arent exactly compatible. The manufacturer should make it absolutely clear that the legs are not wood or engineered wood—that they are, in fact, hollow flimsy plastic. I wasnt expecting tremendous quality in this price range but that said, I have purchased a number of other chairs in this price range that are made with much higher quality materials and way more fill in the chairs. Also, I got the brown chair and the color has a taupe-to-pink kind of hue to it (see photos)—its not brown and the color is not great.
Plastic flimsy legs
narrow rolled arms with little to no fill (see photo of my hand on the arm. I have tiny hands and can put my hand nearly all the way around the arm tuft. Its bad, people. Bad.)
Poor stitching and folds at the tufts of the chair—not attractive (see photos)
Chair back is only secured with a single bolt at the back, meaning it will crack and come apart if anyone tries to lean back too forcefully. A kid or large pet could crack the back on this chair
The poor build of the chair leaves huge gaps where the back meets the seat (see photos). This is really not attractive.
The back is warped where it meets the seat leaving a huge bump that is clearly visible and just ugly (see photo)
The only other thing holding the back in place are two slots on either side that do not secure in with any screws, so they are just channel slots—not secure and not well made
Seat night feels low but that is because there is so little fill in the seat cushion
The pile of the velvet fibers is not a tight weave, giving the chair less wearability. Daily sitting would start fraying this fiber and no double it would start to leave bald spots on this chair.
There are lines scratched or woven? Into the fibers on the seat (see photo). They do not go away when you pat the fibers to smooth them. Really badly made.
At any rate, rather than go through the hassle of returning the garbagey chair, Ill stick in a corner where no one will ever use it as an accent piece. If I could have given this item ZERO stars, I would have.
Flimsy hollow plastic legs, poorly made, weird color, manufacturing defects—not good
Just got this chair yesterday and my maintenance specialist boyfriend had to pound on the back to get it to set into place and line up correctly. This is a guy who fixes enormous machinery for a living, is 63 and no slouch. Still, he had to muscle it into place so it is not easy to put together and may take two people if theyre on the smaller side or not especially strong. The HUGE disappointment is that the legs of this chair are made from flimsy hollow plastic. I mean, theyre absolute trash that I am sure will crack, dry out, and become useless pretty rapidly. I also suspect that they will weaken in the place I am using this chair—near a large fireplace. Heat and flimsy garbage plastic arent exactly compatible. The manufacturer should make it absolutely clear that the legs are not wood or engineered wood—that they are, in fact, hollow flimsy plastic. I wasnt expecting tremendous quality in this price range but that said, I have purchased a number of other chairs in this price range that are made with much higher quality materials and way more fill in the chairs. Also, I got the brown chair and the color has a taupe-to-pink kind of hue to it (see photos)—its not brown and the color is not great. Plastic flimsy legs narrow rolled arms with little to no fill (see photo of my hand on the arm. I have tiny hands and can put my hand nearly all the way around the arm tuft. Its bad, people. Bad.) Poor stitching and folds at the tufts of the chair—not attractive (see photos) Chair back is only secured with a single bolt at the back, meaning it will crack and come apart if anyone tries to lean back too forcefully. A kid or large pet could crack the back on this chair The poor build of the chair leaves huge gaps where the back meets the seat (see photos). This is really not attractive. The back is warped where it meets the seat leaving a huge bump that is clearly visible and just ugly (see photo) The only other thing holding the back in place are two slots on either side that do not secure in with any screws, so they are just channel slots—not secure and not well made Seat night feels low but that is because there is so little fill in the seat cushion The pile of the velvet fibers is not a tight weave, giving the chair less wearability. Daily sitting would start fraying this fiber and no double it would start to leave bald spots on this chair. There are lines scratched or woven? Into the fibers on the seat (see photo). They do not go away when you pat the fibers to smooth them. Really badly made. At any rate, rather than go through the hassle of returning the garbagey chair, Ill stick in a corner where no one will ever use it as an accent piece. If I could have given this item ZERO stars, I would have.