Mission Style Wood & Leather Rocking Chair Rocker

Comment: This chair was very easy to assemble and seems to be very sturdy. It is quite comfortable and looks fantastic! I am very happy with the purchase.

Comment: I bought this for xams. It is very nice and okay quality, have a mission chair for my husband, not as matched but was worth the price.

Comment: Although this product was relatively easy to assemble, and the overall design is aesthetically pleasing and was received in good condition and rapid fashion; there remains the invariable fact that the design of this chair is flawed beyond repair.

Within 2 days of using the the chair it developed a rather noisy squeak. It is to be expected that a wood product will give off some noise due to variances in temperature and humidity etc, however on the third day, the arms separated from the back with a loud crack.
The arms are joined to the back via two dowel rods and glue. The one point in the design where all the downward and backward stresses of the sitter/rocker are focused, is held together by wood and glue... throughout the rest of the chair a series of brass alloy screws and lock nuts are used which is fine if not overkill. The one point where screws and lock-nuts would do the most good, they are lacking.

As there are two dowel rods which support the focal point of stress on such a small supporting beam, it is impossible to replace the dowels with screws as the pre-drilled holes have already compromised the integrity of the beam.

Nice looking? yes. Quality? no. Firewood? not unless you like clouds of toxic fumes from the lacquer.

Comment: This rocker is very nice looking. Dark wood, leather seat. After some use the wood started to crack and splinter and the leather began to crack. The chair lasted a good year and a half until it was unusable without major work being done to it.

Comment: For the money, I was expecting more. The quality is just "okay". The spindles on the side of the chair arms seem flimsy. Comes in a flat box - which you must assemble entirely. The wood is a softer Brazilian pine, not the traditional oak (though obviously that would have meant a much larger price tag). Overall was a bit of a disapointment.