This set is well-made and sturdy and looks like it will weather well. It arrived with a couple scratches that are tolerable - the outer box appeared very battered so I'm thinking it happened in shipping. It took about an hour to assemble. NOTE: it says the chairs are stackable for storage but that is only possible if you take a bottom bracket off of three of the four chairs to be stacked (and then you need to re-assemble when you retrieve from storage assuming you have kept the brackets and screws) - that was mis-leading.