I'm not sure if each of these chairs are identical, BUT my chair was EXTREMELY difficult to assemble. This is because on step 3 you are suppose to slide some benign looking clips through pre-drilled holes. The problem became that there was no physical way to open the chair into the correct position and have the pin slip through that hole. I am small, agile and have a huge working knowledge of physics haha. All of this came into play with me having to fit inside the chair with it face down and carve out enough plastic that was impeding the hole to final make it work. It took almost two hours. I guess my first hint should have been that I could tell the box had been opened before me and that step 1 (put the end caps on the legs) had already been done. Someone was less determined than me and returned it when they couldn't do step 3. That being said and several days have passed since the huge frustration of putting it together...we love the chair and I'm glad that I went through it all. Your choice if you want to deal with putting it together. Buyer be warned.
Assembly is HARD
I'm not sure if each of these chairs are identical, BUT my chair was EXTREMELY difficult to assemble. This is because on step 3 you are suppose to slide some benign looking clips through pre-drilled holes. The problem became that there was no physical way to open the chair into the correct position and have the pin slip through that hole. I am small, agile and have a huge working knowledge of physics haha. All of this came into play with me having to fit inside the chair with it face down and carve out enough plastic that was impeding the hole to final make it work. It took almost two hours. I guess my first hint should have been that I could tell the box had been opened before me and that step 1 (put the end caps on the legs) had already been done. Someone was less determined than me and returned it when they couldn't do step 3. That being said and several days have passed since the huge frustration of putting it together...we love the chair and I'm glad that I went through it all. Your choice if you want to deal with putting it together. Buyer be warned.