I love these chairs ! I was overjoyed to find they are the perfect match to two benches that I already own. Slowly accumulating a very large and lovely "French country" dining room. Two arm chairs that I have are Italian, but  they also have the rush seats and blend well enough but I  hope one day to get two of the arm chairs that mate with these side chairs and  benches. They arrived as whole chairs, no assembly, packaged individually and paired into one large reinforced box. Was easy to unpack and arrived in great condition.  They are exactly what I was looking for.