Flash Furniture Kale High Back Designer Black Mesh Executive Swivel Ergonomic Office Chair with Adjustable Arms

The media could not be loaded. Shockingly high quality. Longevity a question mark, but treat it well and this is probably well worth the price.My impression is from the first 48 hours of owning the chair; I bought a pair of them for an office — but ... I do have a decade of engineering experience and I’ll use that to give a highly detailed review!There are three or four main materials at play here: polycarbonate, steel, mesh fabric, and vinyl. Throw in some stitching, zinc and brass plated fasteners, and miscellaneous softer plastics and you have the whole picture.Starting from the base: The casters are fairly standard plastic with steel or zinc-coated base metal shanks. No surprises here. Replace with urethane if you want to not damage hardwood floors. The 5-pointed base itself is dense polycarbonate. Don’t mistake this for metal! It’s well engineered and has only a few minor flashing points made during mold separation. During assembly the hydraulic assembly is pushed unceremoniously into the base and it wedges in nicely. Disassembly is possible with some force but it won’t slip on you.The seat of the chair bolts to the bottom attachment bracket with 4 m6 bolts. Black oxide here again no surprises. Some slight head oxidation means your chair is likely sitting in a warehouse for around 4-9 months before shipping to you. No big deal but worth noting.The actual seat is fabric with a vinyl edge. Compression is about 1/2 to 3/4 inch natural with a minor forward bias. This is great and keeps your posture on point, but you may feel you are “slipping” out of the chair if you try to sit in it improperly. Having the base of your back aligned with the chair back will do wonders for you.Stitching appears to be of reasonable quality on the vinyl edging and armrests. Those are soft vinyl too and will be your first failure point after a few years of use. Don’t fret! These are easy to reupholster! Search on YouTube for guides.Overall the arms have some slight side wiggle to them that comes from their cheap push-button up/down operation. Normal. A little annoying if you like to adjust arm height a lot. Not a big deal overall. More molded plastic here; good quality like the base.The arms bolt to the seat and to the back of the chair... and THAT IS WHERE THIS THING SHINES.The back of this chair is large but not immodest and insanely comfortable. If you sit properly in this chair it feels better than some $1000 chairs. I am not kidding. I own some (admittedly used) $1000 chairs I also got for a steal. These are better. I am serious.The back of this chair feels luxurious and supportive with zero pressure points. It’ll be comfortable up to around 6’6” in height, and around 250-275lbs. Over that you should get a larger chair. (I’m 6’x170 for reference)To finish up: the mesh of the back is bolted securely to the frame which has admittedly decent looking slots for air to flow. It looks a bit spinal but it’s all black so doesn’t distract from overall aesthetics. Some included rubber end caps even cover the screws that secure the back to the seat. These will keep those black oxide screws from rusting underneath. (More m6 here by the way, with 12 used in total)As you can tell, I’m honestly very very pleased and will be buying more of these. Possible future wish-list inclusions would be a mesh seat and bottom tilt adjustment. The slight forward bias may be annoying to some who don’t like to sit far back in their chairs with good posture. But it’s not a deal breaker at all.5 stars for overall quality and feel4 for aesthetics, mixed bag here5 for ease of assembly4 for materials. Black oxide fasteners do rust and vinyl can flake over time.3-4 for packing. Honestly everything was just jammed into the box but it seemed fine on delivery across both unitsAveraging this to a solid 4.5-5 for the final review.I almost don’t want to leave this review because I feel like I’m letting people in on a clever secret. But there you have it. Get one. Get two. Enjoy them. Value is all there. And I’m big on sustainability. Spending more won’t get you dramatically far from this even if you find more features in other chairs.Any questions or comments let me know.

Just put it together, so I'll have to check back in a while. I got this hoping to replace my other beloved chair that us too tall for my new desk set up.This one is nice looking. Good solid plastic bits and the seat and back are comfortable.The arm rests are comfortable and go up and down pretty far. The mesh is comfortable.Here are my two gripes:The tilt is minimal! Two inches max. I'm so disappointed. I really liked my old chair that tilted quite far. I have a feeling I'm going to fall off this chair trying to tilt it more. Manufacturers: if this is defective, send me a tiltier chair before I hurt myself!!Second, one of the bolts would not go ask the way into the slot. I think the slot is mis-threaded because no other bolts fit either. I had to use 6 washers to get it tight enough.As long as my legs don't fall asleep and my back doesn't hurt, it's all good.Update:After 2 weeks with my butt in this chair daily, I have to say I love it! The squeak is gone and I'm fine with the tilt. Its comfortable and my back is doing great.

Purchased the red color for grandson's Christmas because it goes with the red LED lights on his PC. And, yes, I put it together for him and he got a few days early. :)Pro's:- Much easier to assemble than other office chairs I've put together in the past. Took me about thirty minutes with a little extra help from the cat.Probably could have done it more quickly if the cat wasn't helping.- Comfortable. It is in fact more comfortable than the $300 Skate brand mesh chair that I have been sitting on myself for the last year. I have had to put a pillow in the seat of that one (the Skate chair) to make it tolerable, whereas this Flash Furniture chair feels just fine on my flat, boney, granny rump. I'm seriously considering giving the Skate chair to the cat and ordering another one of these for myself.- Seems to raise up an inch or so higher than other chairs I have sat in, which seems to be a good thing for tall people. If I were using it for myself in the fully-raised position, I would want a footstool (I'm 5'6").- Adjustable armrests.- Really cool looking. Just as cool looking as some of the $300 'gaming' or race-car style chairs.Con's:- Two of the wheel casters would not seat all the way into the star base no matter how much I shoved and in spite of jumping up and down on them. The others seated in just fine. Maybe they will settle when someone heavier than me sits in the chair.- The white stitching really does distract from the good looks of the chair. The use of white just makes it look a little more on the "cheap" side. If they switch to black stitching, they will increase the chair's good looks and cool factor.- There was no Styrofoam in the box to cushion the individual pieces. No doubt that is better for the environment but the box was pretty beat up and had been taped together in a number of places as a result of pieces almost poking through. In spite of that, all the contents and pieces were in fine condition as they all had their own little bubble-wrap or plastic wrappers around them.Maybe the box would be tossed around a little less at a different time of year and it wouldn't matter quite so much.Still to come:- We'll see how well it holds up under heavy use by a 14-year-old young man gamer who spends every spare minute in front of his PC.Side note: Kudo's and props to the Summerville SC UPS driver and his seasonal helper who were burning up the roads late at night but who still delivered the chair on the day it was promised. You guys rock.