Made by an unidentified manufacturer in China, this chair is distributed as model Bennie of the Christopher Knight Home brand, owned by Christopher Knight Brands, LLC, a California company currently under Ftb suspension. The Bennie chair is just the Haddie Fabric Club Chair of that brand to which rockers have been added to the feet. SPECS 1. The angle between seat and back of chair is ~103°. The cushion dimensions provided by (supposedly) the manufacturer in the Q&A section are totally wrong. In the chair I received, the seat cushion is 20.5" at its widest, 20.25" at its deepest, and ~3.5" at its thickest -- the lumbar cushion is ~12.75" wide, ~8" tall, and ~4" thick. 2. Measured from the seat cushion, the height of the chair's back is 20.25", so it does not provide head support for most people. 3. The fabric is 100% polyester. Though Amazon does not disclose that TCPP (included in the California's Proposition 65 list of toxic chemicals) is used as an additive flame retardant for the chair, environmentally responsible online marketplaces do so. To reduce the indoors off-gassing of VOCs from construction materials, I left the fully opened box in a back porch ventilating for the 72 hours recommended by the EPA. ASSEMBLY 4. As already noted by others, the assembling image of the chair on top a table in the user instructions is misleading. You need a stool (or the end of a table narrower than 20.5") with a height over 23.5" for attaching the back-and-seat single piece to the wood frame. The instructions leave plenty to be desired. 5. I am quite handy with tools, but affixing this chair to its support frame was not a simple task. This was due to the POOR DESIGN of the horizontal front piece of wood to which the curved bottom of the seat's front end is attached. This piece lacks the necessary curvature to fit the curved bottom of the seat. This is shown in panel A of one of my attached figures, in which the chair is illuminated from below the seat. There is a 0.4" gap between wood and seat at both lateral ends, which can be seen in detail in panels B-D. The defective design is clearly visible even in the 4th image of the display chair at the top of this webpage as well as in the 360° view of it, proving it is not a one off defect. 6. The screws included are the coarse-thread bugle type with no shank, typically used for drywall, rather than real wood screws. The rockers were easily affixed since the feet of the chair are pre-drilled. Due to the 0.4" gap, however, the 40 mm [~1.6"] long screws are too short to attach the of the seat to the frame securely, so I replaced them with 2" steel screws. The screws have to be driven blindly into the fabric-covered wood frame of the seat since there are no pre-drilled holes in the seat (which increases the risk of splitting the wood). I lubbed the screws with wet soap and tightened them by hand slowly until each reached its sitting; then, I further tightened them by ~1/8 of a turn. The seat does not flex, so the gaps are not decreased by affixing the screws, which are unseemly visible through the gaps (see panels E-F). 7. This issue does not affect the rear horizontal piece of wood that supports the seat's back end since this piece is contoured to make a solid contact with the fabric-covered wood of the seat (see panel G), and the provided drywall screws are able to hold the seat securely. WOODWORK QUALITY 8. Due to its poor manufacturing, the chair I got is marred by scratches, holes, impacts, and other wood surface defects, which are shown in the upper four panels of my other figure. The carpentry quality is below that of a woodworking shop apprentice. Not only there are very rough spots on many places of the wood surface, but also tongue-and-groove joints of the curved pieces are poorly worked and finished. The surface uneveness of such deficient work is often clearly visible (see the lower two panels of my figure) and it is always felt by a sliding hand or finger. RATING -- The quality of the chair is remarkably poor for the price. Destined for a preteen's room, however, I decided to keep it because it is not uncomfortable per se and, being already assembled, returning it would have required a non-trivial amount of time and effort to pack it properly for shipping. .
