Relatively lightweight and well designed. Easy to assemble it for painting and also to pack it up. The paintbox holds quite a few tubes, and there is room for a reasonbly sized canvas, though wouldn't work for larger paintings. Only negative is that the edges of the box assembly are sharp and sliced my finger - they should have been sanded and smoothed off. This is the only box easel I've had, so I have nothing to compare it with, but I like my Mabef studio easel, so at the sale price it seemed a good choice.