If anything, these side chairs are too sturdy! I hoped for a slightly more delicate, antique windsor look, but they work beautifully against our kitchen banquette for a kitchen dining area. They arrived and I am fairly certain they had been returned, because the only prevention of the two chairs rubbing against one another was an Amazon cardboard box from a woman in California, with her address label still on it. (Then again, Wayfair is owned by Amazon, so they may have just been recycling an unused box.) One other note: the feet have no protection or rubber surface, so you will need a slider or felt pad of your own to add to the feet of the chair.