Black Leather High Back Executive Swivel Office Chair [UE-CS-608E-B01-BK-GG]
From Flash Furniture
- Amazon Sales Rank: #68744 in Office Product
- Brand: Furniture Crew
Chair is decent design and feel - check carefully though!
I saw many almost-identical chairs in this (or slightly lower) price range. I took a shot at this non-reviewed but nice-sounding ("comfortable") chair which seemed in the photo to have a double-pillow bottom and some other nice touches.
The box is huge and - I thought - invincible, despite some small dents in the box. Open it up and there is an efficiently packed variety of chair pieces, wrapped and also including a package of hardware with an allen wrench and some spare screw covers. All good. The instructions were almost perfect English with enough pictographs to figure it out, along with the L and R markings (though it was 50/50 whether they were referring Left/right while sitting on it versus looking at it.)
OK, an hour and it's time to assemble the main parts, wheels, back and seat, and pneumatic lift mechanism. And then I notice, there is a small puncture exactly in the center of the back of the leather chair, matching where the small dent is on the box. Surprise! Coming here from China, it seems to have met a hyperactive fork lift, ship hook, or something else along the way. The chair is already assembled now, and I can't envision disassembling it now, re-boxing it and writing a letter saying it arrived damaged. It would be more effort than the value! Needless to say, that was really disappointing.
Aside from that - and for me that's a big "aside" as I have a small tear in a new chair, and that wasn't in the ad! - the chair is almost as wide and comfortable as the one I've replaced (from Staples). It's a bit stiffer on the seat, actually, maybe good for posture, I don't know, but a bit stiff. The good part of that is that I can also feel some type of support across the bottom back, which I assume is the "lumbar support". There's no explanation (and little in the way of pictograph) to teach what adjustments can be made. All I've figured out so far is that it can go up and down and that it is locked by pushing the bar inwards towards the chair or outwards. I'd like it to tilt a bit forward, as I feel like I'm leaning slightly back at the computer, but if it can be done, I've not figured out how.
So... a decent leather (if it arrives safely), a stiff and possibly "ergonomic" back, a very good toolkit and ok assembly directions, and a mystic adjustment control. That's what I've got here.
