Of course chairs require assembly. This chair came with the best directions and the parts were packaged according to the instruction number. For example instruction 1 had an envelope with all the parts for that instruction etc. I’d have given it five stars but it is too high with the arms down to fit under my desk. But you can put the arms up and it fits.
This chair is the perfect replacement for the office chair I was using. It is very comfortable and looks really good. Assembly was fairly straight forward. It took two of us just to attach the back to the seat in order to align but otherwise it was fine. I have been able to sit 6 - 8 hours without a backache and that in itself is a plus.
Easy to put together really comfortable and worth the price. Folks at staples were very helpful and loaded the suv for me. Very happy with the purchase and Staples.
The seat pitches forward enough to feel like you will slide forward. I resigned myself to buy 1 1/2 inches if washers to lift seat front up. I was disassembling old chair and saw it was same design but had spacers in front seat holes to level off the seat. I used the spacer in new chair and works fine. It's called leather but in reality is leather finely ground and bonded to fabric. I figured this was the case with the price point. Comfortable I like the high back.