While I absolutely love these chairs once they were put together, buyer beware, especially if you're a senior and have major arthritis. I'm pretty adept at putting furniture together but these chairs were ridiculously hard. I will say they are very well made, but we had to use a lubricant on the screws because they were a bit larger than the hole in order to go in. The legs of the chairs were especially hard to assemble. It shouldn't be this hard for chairs!!! I've put together a swivel desk chair myself with ease and you would think standard chairs would be easy-peasy.  Nope!  Once we got them assembled though we really love them.  Very, very classy looking.  Just saying if you have issues with your hands, do yourself a favor and pay the extra money to have them assembled.