Absolutely love this table. It obviously is not real
wood but the veneer on top has a wood grain texture to it. Once assembled (the elbow joints were a bit hard to get lined up) it is gorgeous. Assembly is probably a 2-3 difficulty out of 5.  The table top raising mechanism isn’t very smooth, you do need to lift with 2 hands. (I will try a bit of WD-40 to see if that helps.