I buy IKEA quite often and for the most part am happy with the results. Our house is a mix of some of my parents old furniture (dining room table and chairs, coffee table) stuff we got at estate sales and consignment stores, and IKEA. IKEA has a lot to offer and it ranges the spectrum- from cheap cost/made to higher end that will last pretty long. Even within IKEA I find differeing degrees of quality- for the most part, you get what you pay for. It's not "disposable furniture" as some people say, but if it's on the cheap end of the stores' offerings then you can pretty sure it's only designed to last a couple years, max. Would I love genuine antique furniture over IKEA? Hell yeah, but that's not financially realistic for me and most of us. In short, IKEA is great for certain senarios- such as a kid's room, or dorm room, I just did a lot of this nursery in IKEA and it looks great, is solid enough, and got great reviews/ratings when I did research on it- and it saved me hundreds of dollars
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IKEA is great for something that you'll only need for a few years- plus it allows you some flexibility to change looks every few years if you like that and get bored with the same pieces.
I say what the heck, buy the chairs and see if they work, if not you're only out $39.99.