Great stool! Very antique / vintage looking. Cool design. I knocked a star off for the following: (1) on one side of the stool the black paint is crackling, and (2) hard plastic was installed on the bottom of the legs instead of rubber... with the plastic, the stool slides around (quite dangerous)... my husband had to remove the plastic bottoms and replace with rubber which is now much safer... and (3) black paint was on the plastic parts of the legs, so for a while there, we were dealing with black paint flakes coming off and going all over the floor.  The cons are not so big of an issue that I would purchase this item even with the cons since it is super cool looking and serves its purpose.