The recliner is just as pictured.  It is made of good leather, and has good lumbar support. The recliner makes a bit of noise when reclining as someone else indicated in their review, but our other Lazyboy manual recliners have sounded the same. It doesn't bother us. Also, another person mentioned that the back of the recliner continues to recline all the way back when you raise the feet and lean back. If you tighten the screw underneath, it will hold in whatever reclining position that you want it to. We would purchase this recliner again.