Splendid engineering, heavyweight metal components, extremely smart looking. My friend saw it and ordered her own -- but I get to assemble it for her lol.

Assembly is not for beginners, but not due to inherent difficulty and the assembly instructions were clear. The issue is there were pitfalls a beginner wouldn't know to workaround. Like, tiny screw were supposed self-tapping but the material of that part was particle board, which would have been easy to wiggle and tilt, messing it up. So, I used a 1/16th bit to drill a quarter-inch pilot hole. And, then you still need to make sure you give steady, hard downward pressure to drive the screws into the material. Etcetera. So, if you're not especially handy, you might consider either paying for assembly or getting a handy friend to do it.