Flash Furniture 4 Pk. HERCULES Series Black Ladder Back Metal Restaurant Chair - Cherry Wood Seat

These chair replaced some Eames-style knock-off and Ikea wood chairs in our tiled dine-in kitchen which would frequently slide out from under our guests or were easily tipped over by my son. My main considerations were durability and a desire for heavier chairs. I was looking for hickory schoolhouse chairs, like I had previously seen at Pottery Barn or Lakeshore school supply; however, they were no longer available at the former and approximately $139 each at the latter.When I saw these for approximately $50/chair, I figured I could do much worse and was pleasantly surprised that the powder-coated steel frame is quite sturdy and they seem like they will last a long time, probably longer than the wooden ones I originally wanted. They are heavier but still easy to move around. Their center of gravity is lower than our Ikea chairs because of the steel frame. My wife thinks they look good.My chairs came with appropriate sized screws. The seat is not pre-drilled but I just measured the seat overlap at the front and sides (approximately 3 cm and 0.5 mm, respectively) and used an electric screwdriver drill to fasten them. The steel frame and welds are not perfectly uniform, so it is somewhat tricky. With reasonable care the seats attached just fine, I did 6 in about 2 hours. Even if you are a little bit off, I don't think anyone would notice that the seat is not perfectly centered.UPDATE 4/25/2017: after a few months the wood is still in good condition and wipes clean. The powder-coated metal has not scratched. In short, they are holding up well.UPDATE 5/2019: still going strong. My son spotted the same chairs in a local burger bar - if they can hold up in my house and a restaurant you know they are durable!

I ordered two chairs. Both were meticulously wrapped with care for shipping. The chairs arrived within a couple of days. The screws were included. There are not pre-drilled holes in the seats, but I feel like that adds to the sturdiness of the chair. It was super easy to attach the wooden seat part to the metal chairs and they were ready to go! Easy assembly! Awesome chairs! They are incredibly sturdy and also look beautiful and blend in well with wooden chairs I have. Excellent purchase! I highly recommend!

For the money these chairs are great. They're very sturdy and look good. I knew in advance that they're not particularly large chairs, and for our dining room, that's a good thing. I can get six of them comfortably around a fairly small oval-shaped table. It is potentially problematic that you have to manually eyeball the seat when you put it on. Also, there were no instructions, and no hardware provided for attaching the seats. The result is I had to run to the local hardware store for the screws to install the seats and each chair has a small plastic mounting piece that I frankly don't know if it needs to be installed with the seat or not. I didn't install it on one of them, and I did install it on the other 5 of them, and I see no practical difference using them or not. Overall, these two negatives are a nuisance, and not a significant problem.

We ordered 30 of these chairs in December of 2022. We are halfway through 2023 and only received 6. We are waiting on the remaining 24 chairs to be shipped. The chairs themself are very well built, durable, and easy to assemble.

I purchased 4 of these separately. The metal portion of all four was flawless. In all cases the metal portion was lovingly wrapped with thin foam paper like it was priceless. Yards and yards of this stuff wound over every inch of the black coated metal. The wooden seat, on the other hand, was apparently tossed in as an afterthought. Not even in a bag, let alone foam or bubble wrap. 3of the 4 were chipped, and 4 of 4 have dents in the side of the wood seats. In my case I was lucky and all the damage is on the back of the seat where it’s unlikely to catch on skin or cloth, so I smoothed them with sandpaper and wood putty.Based on previous reviews I had my own hardware ready to go, and that was a wise choice. None of the seats were predrilled or marked for drilling, etc. I only found 1 pack of screws but who even knows if they were the right length or type of screw. Based on the weird passive aggressive anti-wood-seat vibe I assume the provided screws are sabotage anyhow and tossed them in favor of known and vetted hardware.The chair itself is stupidly comfortable and sturdy. We had about a 30-45 min max in the old chairs (pictured) which creaked and groaned. We sat in the new chairs for 2 hours chatting and didn’t even notice. No back pain later. I’m delighted.

Great Chair, strong metal frame and well made wood seat. I purchased one of these a couple of years ago with the redwood seat. it was perfect and the redwood color was a dark brown/red color which matched our wood mission furniture. This year I ordered another chair to match the 1st but the redwood color is now a honey amber color, nothing like what it is shown to be in the photos. I returned it and bought the Mahogony color thinking it would at least be a dark brown but it is more of a dark RED, again nothing like what is shown in the photo. I returned it and tried the Walnut color. Finally I have a dark brown seat color that matches the "redwood" from 2 years ago. The other problem is the packaging is really bad. The 1 st two chairs arrived with the wood seat knocking around unprotected against the metal frame. The 1st chair actually has a couple a big chips in from banging into the frame. If you get the color you want and it arrives without damage it's a great chair and should last for years.