They just arrived -- out of the box I thought why are they black and not hickory (thought espresso-like shade)....although I chose 'hickory', the tag on the chair says 'antique black'....there are fake antiqued areas that I thought were scruff marks, but looking at the above picture closely, I see they are suppose to be there.  Comfort not the best with the wood X at your back -- but they are cuties, so who cares? Negative would be that they are definitely black and not hickory...