This chair is beautiful, but I have to agree with some of the posters that it sits high and it is not that comfortable. I had this fantasy that I would sit and knit in it, but this is impossible to do comfortably UNLESS I get a footstool, which I will purchase. That said, it is also really firm, a little too firm, so my fantasy of sinking into a comfy chair went out the window, but it looks so good and elegant, and it would be too hard to return (and I've been searching for a chair for years) that I will keep and using a back pillow and footstool, it should be good. It's also a great chair for meditating!