Big & Tall Bonded Leather Executive Office Chair, High-Back Metal Base Executive Computer Desk Chair with Adjustable Built-in Lumbar Support and Footrest

This chair is for my father, who like to watch TV sometimes, and use computer other times. This chair is perfect for that: the back can be lowered like a reclining sofa to watch TV, then popped up as a computer office chair. The box is heavy. I spent about 20 minutes to assemble it. I am a slow guy, I know. It might take you only 10 minutes to do so. The hex tool came with it was super helpful. After finishing it, the chair felt quite stern and well built. The leather is soft, in fact a little too soft that I am not sure it's genuine leather or just fake leather. But for now, it's quite comfortable to sit in. I have no idea why other reviewers said it's not soft in the bottom. To me, it's good enough. The chair back can be adjusted for lumber support. I think it works much better just put a small pillow in the back. The leg support is nice. Though it needs to put in two small rubber bands, or the support will easily fall out. Don't know why the manual doesn't say it, or why they didn't put the rubber bands on in the factory. It's a small thing, but it can ruin the whole experience if you didn't notice it. Oh, one last thing, since the chair acts like a recliner, you cannot rock it back and forth like the normal computer chair. To my father, it's much more important to be able to lie down and enjoy the TV show. Rocking is nice, but you cannot expect it to do both reclining and rocking. That's asking too much of it.

I spent a lot of time researching before I bought this chair, and I am soooo disappointed in it. It is completely disproportional to my body. I a 5' 10" guy with an equally proportioned body. It often hard for me to find clothes because my sizes are always sold out. This mean that my body shape and size is one of the most common sizes. This chair was not designed for a person who is evenly proportioned. It was designed for a person with long legs, a short body, and really long arms. Basically, and ORANGUTAN! 1. Seat Base: The seat base is way too long. In order to get back against the seatback, I have to sit so far back that the front of the chair is pressing into my calves so hard it cuts off blood circulation. I would have to have femur leg bones that were at least three to four inches longer to sit comfortably in this chair. The seat cushion is also very firm. My butt starts hurting almost immediately when sitting in this chair. 2. Lumbar Support: The Lumbar support to at least four inches too high and hits be smack dab in the middle of the back. It also feels sharp, as if if you were pushing back against a metal pipe. I would have to be a least 4 inches taller in order for this lumbar system to be in the right place, but even then it would not be that good. 3. Armrests: The armrests are too low. I have to slouch down in the chair to rest my arms in the armrests. If I were any taller, there would be no way to get low enough to get my elbows down to the armrests. Unless of course, I had arms that were disproportionally long to my body size, like and Orangutan. 4. Seat Controls: The seat controls are ridiculous too far down. My arms would have to be 10 to 12 inches longer to reach them from an upright sitting position. I have to lean way over to the right and reach way down to get to them. Basically the same problem as with the armrests. I would have to have arms that were disproportionally long to the size of my body to use these controls comfortably. 5. Footrest: The footrest on this thing is a flimsy piece of garbage. It can only be used when in the fully reclined position as it cannot support any weight at all. I tried to use it as a footrest when sitting upright because I was losing blood circulation to my feet (see #1), and it bent way down just from the weight of my feet and I thought it was going to break off. 6. Recliner: The chair does recline to almost a fully horizontal position, but when in this position, it creates a huge hole between the seatback and the base. This leaves your whole lower back hanging in mid-air with no support at all. It also moves the lumbar support higher up your back and it feels like you are laying in a knife blade. Now you might be thinking that if I were a much taller person, say 6' 2" for example, this chair would fit my better, and that may make some difference, but it would make other things worst. Take the armrests and controls. If my torso was taller, that would make them even more out of reach, because it would move my shoulders up farther away from them. Unless I was taller and had unusually long arms for my body size. The chair is the right size for my height when in the reclined position. If I were any taller, my mead head would be hanging off in the air. BOTTOM LINE: I don't know who design this chair, but they did not use a person with a normal equally proportioned body as their guide. Nothing on this chair is proportioned right. It seems to be built well and is fairly easy to assemble, but it just is completely for me in almost every respect. And it is not comfortable. It is like sitting on a brick with a quarter-inch thick piece of foam on it. Unfortunately, I was busy and did not even assemble it until after my 30 day return period had expired. So I am selling it on F-book for and finding another.

I bought this chair for it's reclining and footrest capability of up to 175*. Pros: quality (leather), breathable. solid construction and support (padding and material), ease of assembly, Cons: needs seat angle adjustibility, needs spring adjusted rocker ability, No spring tension to aid in bringing the back up from reclining position. knowing that this was for big and tall, being 5'9", my feet barely touch the floor at the lowerst setting. Maybe when the padding settles and breaks in I wouldn't need a foot rest for my feet. This is definitely for 5'10" and taller chair. I still rate this a 4 star chair due to its comfort, space (seating sq/ft).

I am reading some of the critical reviews and have to say some are a little unfair. I have had the chair for a day, I paid some $250 for this chair and that was a fair price for what I paid. I am giving five stars because: - it arrived early - the assembly was easy and very well explained, it even included working gloves and the screws were sorted by application so there was no guessing what to use - the chair is comfortable - while this is not a high-end chair, it's a good deal for the price ($250) I don't understand the criticism of the recline mechanism by some; you can recline just as advertised, if you want the chair to stay recline (even if you get up, for example) there is a lever that keeps the reclined back in place. The foot rest is a little flimsy. And finally, I am certainly not being catapulted out of the chair as some have stated. I am a man, 6'1, 250 pounds. I think the chair is a good fit for taller folks, if you are shorter the seating is probably too large and you will have a hard time reaching the back of chair comfortably.