Alera ALENR4119 Neratoli Series High-Back Slim Leather Chair - Black/Chrome

I bought this chair to replace a plush chair that I had used for several years. When the piston broke, and I was unable to replace it, I decided to buy this Alera chair based on the design, and the product write up. After one month of use, I feel I must inform fellow Amazon customers of my findings, which are: Uncomfortable, arms too high adding to the uncomfortable seating position. Now today, the arm on my right has broken off, along with the screws that are provided to retain it. Furthermore, the seat depth is apparently not accurately described, because I diligently sought to get a chair with a seat depth that would NOT be a constant annoyance to my legs. I am 5'10", and weigh 165 pounds, so I feel that it should have been an accurate measurement that was listed. The quality is lacking. and the chair feels cheap. The photo shown does not depict what you will receive. Totally disgusted with this purchase, and I plan on getting rid of it and replacing it with something of quality as soon as I can afford it. My advice: do not buy and get something else for yourself.

I bought this because it looked like it might work like my favorite chair I found at a swap meet years ago. I never knew the manufacturer, and I think any tags that were on it must have been torn off, so once it wore out I never found the like. Like this, it had a seat and back that were "locked" in position relative to each other, so when you lean back the seat itself tilts too. The cushions are nice and deep, so you don't have to be mindful of spreading out your weight over the whole seat to avoid painful pressure points (i.e. you can lean over to one side without any problem).(rant)On most new chairs I've used (Aeron knockoffs) the seat does not move, and reclining only tilts the back of the seat. They make it hard to shift the weight on your butt around--it tries to force your weight to be "evenly" distributed, no matter how you try to move. They do this by making the seat "cup" your body in a certain way, and, as I said earlier, by eliminating the ability for the seat to tilt. I think this is a huge mistake. What makes sitting so terrible for me is the consistent pressure, you HAVE to be able to fidget, to shift back and forth, to make it bearable. Trying to "evenly distribute" the sitter's weight no matter what, while I guess a fun engineering problem to solve, is not what you want. It just makes the fatigue that builds up in certain places over a day impossible to escape.(end of rant)I think this recent trend in seating is what has made sit-stand desks so popular. Which isn't at all a bad thing-- I'm a little glad it happened because it's yet another set of positions to fidget between during the day.The ONLY thing that makes this less than perfect, and which isn't going to be a drawback for everybody, is the lumbar support. It's not that it has too little-- it has too much! I am a programmer who has to spend a LOT of time at my computer. Like 16 hour stretches in crunch time. I wouldn't last long if I sat bolt-upright like the standards recommend. I have to change position a lot. I have to slouch, I have to lean back, and yes, for the relatively uncommon times I'm "sitting up straight", it's very comfortable.If my job required me to sit like that all the time, it'd make it a LOT easier to cope I guess which is probably who they're aiming at. I have sympathy for people in that situation. I wish the bend in the back of the chair (look at the picture of it from the side to see what I'm talking about) could be opted out of. The seat padding is still soft and deep enough that the chair is mostly accommodating to any way you want to sit, though.In the end, I really can't complain. This is the only chair I've found that comes close to what I want (and isn't extremely cheaply made). I thought they'd stopped making them like this. I wish I could give it a rating of 4.75 rather than a straight 4, but if I rounded up to 5, there's no chance anybody from the manufacturer would think to read this and see my request to somehow make the lumbar support optional in the future--either via a detachable cushion or a variant design of the chair.

Edit. I’m not really sure when I bought this. In the past 3 years? The fake leather recently completely deteriorated. The top layer of the seat is essentially gone. The arm rests ‘leather’ is also falling off. The chair is definitely comfortable so I tried using black duct tape to hold it together. It’s to far gone, going to have to throw it away.The wheels deteriorate on tile, leaving bits of wheel plastic almost embedded into my tile floor. Has to be scraped off with something like a knife.The thin leather like material on the arms has broken open in multiple spots.

My review after one year of having it.Pros:The chair looks really niceCons:The stitching has rippedNot comfortable enough for daily office useA wheel bent so now its lopsidedglue was used were stitching should have been so not the glue isnt holding to the backing to the chair

The chair certainly looks very nice It arrived with the seat and back all in one peace, and it didn't need much assembling. The arms attached easily, and so did the wheels. The base looks nice from above, but it's very cheap thin metal rather than a solid, heavy piece of aluminum. The leather or reconstituted leather or whatever else they call it is actually nothing but plastic. As soon as you sit down, it feels hot and sticky, and certainly nothing like an actual leather chair. The "leather" is also very thin, and I'm fully expecting it get tears and holes in it after a few months. I bought this for the house, but I'm going to take it to the office to replace some other cheap chairs.

Suffering from back pain, I noticed that I could sit comfortably in my car when driving 250 miles, but that my high-end desk chair wasn't giving me the kind of support I seem to need. This chair has fewer moving parts than the desk chair it replaces, and it is just what I need to support my back while I am at my desk for several hours each day.

I absolutely love this chair! Easy to assemble, very comfortable, delivered in perfect condition, and great for my home office. It looks very stylish too! Couldn't be happier! The high back lands right at the top of my neck/bottom of my head, and cushioned enough for a nice head rest!

Haven't had it long but...It says leather, and it is, if they got the hides from plastic cows. Moderately comfortable, but it feels like I'm sitting ON it not IN it, if you know what I mean. Maybe it will break in. Fairly well made and easy to put together. Took me maybe 15 minutes and most of that was peeling off the protective wrap. Really attractive. Good not great.