better quality than I excepted

Exactly as purchased

As of this writing, it's been two days (minus a few hours, maybe) since I assembled this chair & started using it -- as an office/computer-desk chair, that is -- so, please take what I say next with a grain of salt because I haven't been using it for long enough yet to say what a "long-term owner's experience" would be like... with that said, though: Overall, I like this chair **A LOT!!!** More specifically, it has (at least) these three particular features which I really like: - Feature 1: microfiber upholstery (a.k.a. "imitation-suede fabric", sometimes known by brand names such as "Ultrasuede" or "Alcantara"). I was already familiar with this type of upholstery from a small sofa which I bought 17 years ago, and I've liked it ever since then, so I deliberately sought out this type of upholstery while shopping for office chairs just recently. And, for this model of chair in particular, my (good) expectations about its upholstery were met! - Feature 2: its particular type of chair base, which seems somewhat uncommon for office chairs... or maybe more than just "somewhat". One thing that led me to this specific chair model was that, during my recent round of furniture-shopping, I was looking specifically for office chairs which *DO NOT* have any wheels (because, when used on a hard/non-carpeted floor, wheeled chairs will roll *FAR* too easily), and -- unfortunately -- it's not particularly easy to find non-wheeled office chairs, *especially* once you start adding additional constraints such as (as mentioned above) a particular type of upholstery. Many of the other non-wheeled chair models that I looked at had what's called a "sled base", i.e. a single curved tube underneath its seat that serves both as the chair's base (the part that's in contact with the floor) and also as its "legs" (the vertical part that connects the base to the seat). You should be aware that a chair with that type of design effectively has only two legs, both of which are *at the front-end* of its seat... which, in turn, tends to cause that tube to flex when you sit down in the chair and/or when you lean back in it, ultimately making a "sled-base" chair of that kind feel somewhat similar to a rocking chair. **HOWEVER**, this chair right here instead has a very different type of non-wheeled base: two separate curved (or "looped", rather) tubes, each of which serves three purposes: it's one arm of the chair, and half (either the left half or the right half, that is) of the chair's base, **AND** two of the chair's legs (either the left two legs or the right two legs). With this design, the chair effectively has four legs in total... *UNLIKE* the aforementioned "sled-base" design, which has only two legs. - Finally, feature 3: out of the various chairs that I've bought during this round of shopping, so far I've assembled two of them: this one, and also a sled-base chair of the type described above (i.e. one that has only two upright "legs", both of which are at the front). The sled base chair was **frustratingly difficult to assemble**, mainly because -- for some inherent structural/mechanical reason, I suspect -- after having bolted one of the chair's arms to the seat & the back, it then was necessary to apply *A LOT of force* to hold the other one of the arms & the seat close enough together to each other in order for the bolt-holes to line up well enough for me to bolt down that other arm. And, in contrast, *this chair that I'm reviewing here was MUCH EASIER for me to assemble* than that other one was! (Also note, another type of non-wheeled chair design that's probably less springy/flexible than the "sled-base" design tends to be is: for the chair to simply have four individual upright legs. I bought one other chair that has four separate legs, although that one's item-description calls it an armchair rather than an office chair.) Be warned, though: there are four hard plastic "feet" on the undersides of the aforementioned two metal-loops that serve as this chair's legs. If you're going to set this chair on a (non-carpeted) floor surface of some kind that's vulnerable to being scratched/gouged/damaged -- such as one made of wood, plastic, vinyl, etc. -- then you probably ought to put soft felt pads on the chair's feet in order to prevent them from damaging the floor. So, the conclusion here is: if you're looking for an office chair to use on a non-carpeted hard floor, and microfiber / imitation-suede cloth upholstery is acceptable to you, and you prefer the chair to feel solid (*as opposed to* springy) while sitting in it, then this chair likely would be a very good choice... or maybe even *THE ONLY* choice!