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Product arrived with minor scratches and dents due to inadequate packaging. There were also numerous defects in workmanship. I would not purchase this product again.

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I have bought dozens of replacement seats for my Breuer Chairs over the years and these were clearly an inferior product. They were much thinner than the normal ones and the workmanship was shoddy. I returned them for a refund and am still waiting. Don't be fooled. I recommend you purchase from Seats and Stools, who sold me a proper one.

It was a perfect replacement for my worn out seats. I was able to recycle my old chairs into very usable chairs again, since the rest of the chairs were in good shape.

I was very disappointed with the quality of this product, clearly not well manufactured. Furthermore, the design did not match my original seat. The product came from the The Antique Restoration Center.

I've purchased replacement Breuer chair seats in the past, and while none of them exactly match the original seat, they have all been of nearly comparable quality. Not quite in this case (a replacement seat manufactured in China). Although it fits just fine and is similar in color, upon close inspection it clearly lacks the level of craftmanship and care I've come to expect in this product. You can easily see the roughness in the edging and seams, showing it was hastily fitted together without the normal attention to finishing and detail. I installed it anyway, since its not obvious from a distance and by the time you get close enough to notice, you're already sitting down. Still, it's disappointing to see the standards slipping this obviously.

My 4 breuer seats prolonged the chairs for another few years. The products were delivered and installed in 3 days. Thanks for your prompt and courteous service.

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This chair was easy to assemble, looks great, and was a better price than anywhere else I could find. I will agree with other comments that the chair is more a yellowy cream than a white. That works for our room, but its a good detail to know. So far we love it.

The box was really beat up when it arrived, so I was worried about damage to the chair. However, the pieces inside were very carefully wrapped and in perfect shape. Found the instructions and putting together very easy. Solid, nice chair for the price. Only complaint is I was hoping for pure white, and it is more a cream/yellowy white color.

I almost bought a chair like this from Pottery Barn for nearly $400. I am very impressed with the quality of the chair and would recommend it to anyone who wants to save money.

Everything was great about this chair: the price, free Super Saver Shipping, packaged perfectly, arrived without a scratch, easy to assemble. But the problem is, this chair is not white as described. It's a very yellow cream.

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The person I gave this book to loves it and seems to be constantly looking through its pages.

Excellent photograghaphy. Excellent selection of chairs being showcased. If you enjoy furniture as art you will certainly enjoy this book. My personal interest is comfortable chairs with an artistic twist. I'll probably use this book as a jumping off point for chair designs I'll build for different needs. A truly great chair can be a great plane to land. Enjoy.

Tables are my driving force at this time, but, after seeing 500 Tables, I ordered 500 Chairs and I may just have to throw my hat into the ring, as some of the chairs represented are singularly impressive and inspirational.

500 Chairs is remarkable: a beautifully made photographic account of sterling furniture design by leading makers as well as brilliant newcomers. Lark's 500 series consistently outshines all competitors, and this book is no exception: It's superior in range and inspiration to other collections out there. The book was juried by Craig Nutt, and includes pieces by nearly 300 different designers. Just some of the leading ones include John Grew Sheridan, Garry Knox Bennett, Gord Peteran, Curtis Buchanan, Judy Kensley McKie, Paul Freundt, Wendy Maruyama, and Sam Maloof. I'm very pleased to have this book on my shelves, and I strongly recommend also taking a look at 500 Tables: Inspiring Interpretations of Function and Style (500 Series), which is also from Lark Books. After all, chairs and tables go together very nicely!

Simply excellent. Beautifully photographed and laid out, the work in this book is broad ranging, open minded and each one a sincere and intelligent design direction. Powerfully inspirational and helpful if you're needing a nudge to get out of the box with a design!

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Lets face it some us are simply in love with furniture and for a great deal of us the true great love is chairs. I also love history and this book gives you both. This book has a permanent home on my living room coffee table and I never tire of looking through it and neither will you.

No one who has seen my home would expect me to have anything to do with a furniture book. But some perceptive friend gave me this book and now I get it! Under Ms. de Dampierre's tutelage, I have grown to understand how pieces of furniture are a reflection of the times in which they were created. This study of chairs is no less fascinating than any great work of art history and the author does an incredible job of detailing changes in social and political currents which impact the design and use of each chair in her exhaustive chronology. As importantly, the pictures are beautiful; the book is worth buying for them alone.

Florence de Dampierre has produced what will certainly be not only the definitive guide to the chair itself but also a witty and learned look at how modes of communication in differing cultures governed the kind of furniture people invented for themselves. The scope of the book is huge, ranging from the cradle of civilization in Mesopotamia and Africa to the chair as modern art. I recommend it highly, both for serious collectors as well as anyone who has ever thought twice about the provenance of the place they've just sat down in. The book is copiously and beautifully illustrated, so it makes a lovely gift.

In this fascinating book, De Dampierre brings a fresh perspective to world history by describing it through one of the most ubiquitous items in our daily lives: chairs. In doing so, she has produced a highly enjoyable read for both the sophisticated antique collector and the general student of history.

A very well written book with lovely and truly beautiful illustrations. Highly recommended!

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Can't really recommend this set. The main vertical mitered frame bit (large bit) disintegrated ( carbide blew apart) only after (6) 8 foot long poplar boards were cut..I have never seen a carbide bit shatter from cutting new clean freshly planed wood before. I knew something was wrong because my table mounted router motor suddenly was vibrating badly so I stopped the routing and looked at the bit and sure enough it has a section of carbide missing on one wing of the cutters ( was running great until this).. I am just starting to cut the frames for 30 doors for a kitchen cabinet job and now have to order another bit after only 6 frames were cut. Hope the next one lasts longer than this and I really wish it was made of American high grade carbide but at this low price I guess this is what you get.

I don't know anything at all about routers but I bought this as a gift for my boyfriend who wanted to make bathroom cabinets. He's done a considerable amount of woodworking but didn't have this particular router bit set. He used this to make the drawer fronts for about 16 drawers and 4 cabinet doors. He's told me he's very pleased with the quality and performance of these bits. I was also pleased with the quick shipping by the vendor.

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If you are looking for a replacement for broken cane chair seats, this may work for you as it did for me. I'm not a handyman kind of guy (in fact, I can be dangerous with tools). The fiber seatboards are highly compressed, and embossed (rather nicely actually) which makes them a challenge to cut to fit if needed. Though I did not use one, I'd recommend using a jigsaw rather than just a sharp knife (which I did use). It's tough, but it does work and once secured to the chair seat with nails, (also a challenge to work with oak chairs), they make a handsome alternative to cane. But, because the fiber is stiff, the chairs will now have a hard surface. It's a tradeoff, but a simpler solution than trying to replace cane.

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I bought this product to repair an old rocking chair that had originally had some weird kind of elastic strapping. Traditional webbing was not a good option, but the elasbelt worked perfectly. It was easy and worked like a dream. Buy it!