basyx by HON Leather Executive Chair - High-Back Computer Chair for Office Desk, Black (VL151)

This chair is reasonably priced, easily and quickly assembled without the need for additional tools. But most importantly this chair is very comfortable and functional, offering excellent back support. You can do a lot worse than this.

Here's the deal with office chairs... Most will die a death of a broken base, cylinder, or torn surface area within a few years of normal use. The user's size obviously affects lifespan as well. As such, I don't buy $300 chairs because in my experience, they break too.I bought this chair 25 months ago. Today I was at work and wasn't even moving... just sitting still, and the chair sank to the bottom as if I pulled the height adjustment lever. I'm about 225lbs right now so I'm well under the 250lb rating for this chair. But the thing is, the surface on this chair after two years of daily use, isn't even cracked, let alone torn! I've never seen this before on a fake leather chair after years of use. The base and wheels are in great shape still too.I was going to buy a universal replacement cylinder to keep using the chair, so I flipped it over and found a 1-800 number and a model number. I looked up my order on Amazon and saw the order date and the beautiful "5 year warranty" image. I called the 1-800 number and (THIS IS WHY YOU SHOULD BUY THIS CHAIR) after a brief recording disclaimer I went straight to a person (no phone maze) who spoke in perfect English without any hard to understand accent, and she was very friendly. Within 3 minutes, we had exchanged my serial number and shipping address and a replacement cylinder will be on its way within a week, for free.Don't fool yourself, this is a budget chair. But, at just over a Benjamin, you don't normally get such a long warranty, such great customer service if you DO have an issue, such a quick resolution. 25 months in, yes, the seat cushion could be more padded as 500+ days of sitting on it for 8 hours at a time have flattened it, but frankly I don't notice it. There are no screws poking through or other issues. I STILL get compliments on the chair looking nice. Which is kind of weird because I don't do anything special to make it stand out. But I guess that's a hallmark of good design.So 5 stars Hon. Great service. Great chair at a fair price. I'll be a return customer in the future!

Warning: do not buy this chair. It is a complete pile of crap for anyone looking for long term back and bum care.This chair replaced a similar model that was about 6 years old. The pleather, or whatever it is, on this one is smoother and possibly a little cheaper. This one kind of has a different feel like it cradles you a bit more. A bay window on the back region is not good for the back really, and the lumbar region is poorly filled and designed.My last Hon had a screw coming loose constantly. This one ends up the same way. Hon needs to do major reworking of these chairs if you ask me. Over time that one got lopsided heavily. It also showed a little wear on the leather but to be expected over 6 years. This chair is terrible and will not even last two years. In fact, it barely lasted one and I have been suffering since. I am now trying their 161 model, which looks like a direct upgrade from this POS, but there is no telling if it actually is better. How F'ing hard is it to afford some decent cushioning in a chair?The quality of all these computer/desk chairs has seen a gigantic plunge as they all have switched to completely inferior Chinese junk product. The seats do not hold up past 1.5 years for basically anyone in the 200 pound range.There is cracking on badly stitched and designed sidearm pleather, which is two tone. This WILL happen to you it just depends when. This one flaw alone is reason enough to never buy this chair. Ever.The lumbar support is basically nothing on this thing as well. Bum support went to nothing over one year of use. NOTHING. A concrete bottom that gives me pain. Overall, this is really just a badly designed chair in just about every respect. From the terrible two tone material stitching of the arms, which is ridiculously inept as it is obvious to anyone it was going to crack over time, to the seats and lumbar and complete lack of sustainable cushioning, you really could not buy yourself anything worse than this. You are paying to harm your back over time. The wheels are decent but you need to get a pad. Do not use this chair on concrete or anything else that like.Everyone including me at the start gives a good review because the chair is nice when it's new. But then slowly it just becomes a huge problem over time and does not hold up to the claimed 5 year warranty, OF WHICH only TWO YEARS are covered for the upholstery.With the leather armrests cracking as they do this chair is as good as dead. I don't have time for shipping costs and returns. I don't ever want to sit or see this chair again. I basically tore it apart and had it sent to the dump.The 161 Hon is a direct upgrade, and all around is just a much better chair.

I liked the look of this chair and after checking out the reviews, I decided to get it. I'm not disappointed at all. I'm used to the old time executive type chairs and this chair is very comfortable and easy to assemble, but it's seat being a bit short from front to back from what I'm used to, and the way it adjusts it's height were drawbacks for me. Other than those two items this chair is really a nice chair. I would suggest that if you have a small office space you consider that it's not a really small chair but a rather large one. It sort of overhelms my bedroom made into a computer room. It's a really comfortable chair and the arms are great as they are soft and a joy to rest your arms on. By the way, also consider the size of the door you are going to have to take the chair thru to get it to where you want it. I haven't considered this and as a result I assembled it in the Living Room and when I got ready to move it into the Computer Room I ran into not being able to get it thru the door. I had to take the bottom off, move the top and bottom into the Computer Room apart then reassemble the chair. No problem but a bit of trouble. Well worth buying.

Cheap looking and not comfortable.