I bought it to sit at a desk and to play guitar in... the arm rests fold up so I can fold up the right one. I can sit up straight or kind of recline REALLY comfortably with a 12lb Les Paul and that's why I chose to leave a review (but see the modification below that I had to do). I highly recommend it for your home studio and I will probably take this sucker to jazz gigs now instead of a stool! (The chair lifts right off the stand, the stand comes right out of the wheel base and then you'll have 3 parts to put in the car easy.). Mine was $160 and despite the sipping time showing 2+ weeks, the box arrived in 2 days. So, I actually had to modify the chair to make it ideal for guitar. The arm rests fold up but not quite dar enough. Your shoulders can still rub them and the right one interferes with my strumming elbow SO, I popped the black plastic cap of the arm and saw 2 screws...pulled those and the arm came right of and I notices how it works. The whole thing is mage of plastic that I thought was pot metal, so it was easy to use a drill and a grinder to take half the stopper arcs off. (Had to take half off the inside two arcs with cutter wheel, then some off the outside with a drill used like a router and a flat screwdriver to pry off small bits. It was a little sloppy but the black cap covers that. Put the arm back on the chair and was in heaven as the arm folds up and completely our of my way. I'll have to remember to not let any groupies sit on that right arm when it's down because there's only half the plastic supporting it and I guess you could break it if you really tried. Last note. This is not leather of course and 1) If you have a Nitrocellulose laquer guitar, the finish might interact chemically with this vinyl stuff and discolor your guitar but it doesn't really tough when playing. (Just don't lay guitar on chair or any vinyl for a while.) 2) Your butt might get a little unventilated on this material but I'm already used to it and its not really an issue....its soft actually... a cover or pad could help. If you are short like under 5' 6" this chair does not lower enough for you to have a 90 degree hip, knee position with feet flat on the floor. I'm 5'10" guy and it about perfect but I'm glad I'm not any shorter. I do regret making Amazon even richer though. I usually shop and book mark and read reviews on here and then do the actual purchase at the big auction site because it's always cheaper and usually free shipping and supports more smaller businesses. Sometimes it takes a little longer but usually I find Fast and Free shipping there and ... they have more variety as Amazon just steers you to whatever products they make the most money on and you can't trust they variety and relative quality what you're seeing when you browse on Amazon.