This chair swivels, reclines, and rocks. It's a good quality bonded leather. The color though it's not the same as in the picture, it is Really dark brown and to me it looks like it's black. It's a really rich color. I have other Brown leather sofas and now they look really old compared to the color of this chair. This is also from Abbyson furniture which is not on the description I think but I was happy when I saw the box. The reclining mechanism is from pratt and leggett , nice and smooth.