This chair is very firm, as others have mentioned. I prefer that! The legs on this chair reflect clean lines that ground the design. It is a feminine fabric, but the chrome legs with a tapered retro shape add a masculine bent to this chair, resulting in a "unisex" piece perfect for a desk (that is what I used it for), or as an accent chair. Note that the legs in the back of the chair criss-cross--this adds visual interest