Vera Piano

This is the best long term investment of $450-$500 you can make. So many of us looking at chairs online are looking at ones we want to use everyday and every night. Be it for casual comfort or for supportive productivity. This chair is highly underrated - far BETTER than the overrated and overpriced Steelcase Amia or Leap. Don't let the 3.9 stars on Amazon reviews scare you away from this chair, some people simply are unable to be pleased and are nitpicky.The chair has one of the most comfortable bottom seats of any expensive chair you can look at. One of the problems with most gaming chairs or "ergonomic" office chairs is that the seat is too thin or too firm a material and your bottom will hurt after a short period of time. If you have a bottom that has a lot of pressure points, most other chairs are going to be painful over time. The Eurotech Vera has a thick, generously padded cushion that is not capable of bottoming out. It's not so soft that you sink in, but not so firm that you feel like you are sitting on a cheap school seat. I sleep on soft mattresses so I can't stand "firm" memory foam that feels cheap and hurts pressure points. The Eurotech Vera seat is perfectly medium. The backrest is also terrific. It may look aggressive in the low back, but it's not. It's just right. Whatever engineer designed the angle of the seat rest knew what they were doing because the low back curves in to support your low lumbar back where most people get pain from sitting in chairs. You will not get pain from sitting in this chair unless you try to sit in it like a sack of potatoes. There is more than enough room to sit with your feet crossed under you. The mesh material on the backrest is comfortable and strong. It doesn't rub your skin uncomfortably nor wear down your shirts like cheaper mesh chairs. You can sit in this chair comfortably without clothes if that's something you do. It's a high quality mesh that will last, you can feel it the moment you sit on it. The 4D adjustable armrests have a supportive foam with soft edged contours, your elbows will be fine resting on them and they are quiet. I could not stand the Steelcase arm rests, it felt like hard plastic on the elbow. The move inward and outward as well as by height. The chair also has a lightweight profile and its easy to maneuver.Before this chair, I had bought a Steelcase Amia and Leap. This chair is far superior to those chairs - at near half the price.Buy this chair, it's excellent and it does everything you need it to do.

I'm now working almost 100% from home now, so I figured it was time to improve my home-office setup. I have bulging lumbar discs, so top of the list was replacing the ten-year-old, falling-apart office chair I'd been putting up with.The Eurotech Vera is definitely a welcome improvement. The back support is fantastic for me, the back tension adjustment works great, and the build quality feels far more robust than most of the office chairs you get at local big-box stores. Assembly is pretty simple, although you will find yourself wanting a hex-head bit with a small compatible ratchet--the thread-lock on the screw threads makes them VERY tight going in. A basic Allen wrench is included in the hardware kit, and it will probably get the job done in a pinch, but you'd need some fairly strong hands, and even then it's hard enough going that you might wonder if you got the screws cross-threaded. Once it's assembled, though, I expect those screws will never back out on their own.Adjustability-wise, I kind of wish the arm-rests held their horizontal angle better. It doesn't take much to shift them off at different angles, which is a bit annoying but not a deal-breaker.However, now comes the bad: everything other reviews say about the horrible packaging is 100% true. Eurotech ships the entire set of chair parts with just some separator cardboard and bubble-wrap inside the box, and apparently nobody includes an overbox for shipping. When mine arrived, at least one hole was knocked in the side of the box, most of the screws and washers were floating loose, and a couple of screws had apparently escaped in transit. Fortunately, the seller (BOTD in my case) was kind enough to ship me an extra hardware kit at no charge, so props to them.

I wanted to wait to give the chair some use before issuing my review. I had noticed in other posts the issue with creaking. I am happy to report my chair is squeak-free after four months of use. It is very comfortable, with great cushioning and back support. I was a bit worried due to the cost of the chair being much less than many other chairs I have used in the past. There have been no quality issues, and the chair has been tremendous. The biggest lesson I have learned from this chair is to be most comfortable actually requires no slouching and to be seated as far back as possible on the seat. I use this chair between 6-9 hours five days a week and have not seen the cushion get crushed or the back support tear. I highly recommend for anyone who needs a great chair and doesn't want to break the bank.