I, like many others, researched chairs as other dining room chairs I bought as part of a dining room set from a large furniture chain started falling apart piece by piece and coming loose and cracking.  Not so with these.  The fact that they require some assembly (which is easy) means that you have control over the the quality and build.  These chairs are definitely very solid and much nicer than chairs that I paid 3X as much for.  I bought 4 of them and am considering buying two more.