I love the design of these stools.  For the money, I think they are a great deal and the styling is spot on design wise.  I have seen almost identically styled real leather stools for 3x the price.

I was definitely not expecting real leather for the price and knew it was a faux material.  I work in the shoe industry where lots of nice faux leather mixed with real.  Many of these materials are hard to distinguish unless you know what you are looking for.  One can tell immediately that this is faux leather on these chairs.  

I still really like them; however, I wish they would have been made with a higher quality faux material that was a bit thicker, too.  (The material is quite thin.) $10 more in material cost would easily make these the best $400 bar stools on the market!