I was rather shocked at how small the box was they came in... thought it must be a child's chair... they aren't a child's char but for us they are on the small side...  easy to put together, takes about an hours,  but for some reason when I read they were 27.5 inches wide I figured it was the seat but the width is the width of the fullest part of the arms...   we will be keeping as too costly to ship back and will be very careful when purchasing other set of these Adirondack chairs... which we will be doing for next summer for our new beautiful patio.