I love this lamp's copper shade color with black support pole and base.  It has a floor (foot) switch for turning on and off, which is very nice.  However, I got this lamp so that it could be used on my living room carpet.  It was tipping over very easily on the carpet, so I found a black 15 inch round metal serving tray with a 1.5 inch side, that when turned upside down on the carpet, totally stabilized the 12 inch base for the lamp.  The base is fairly heavy (12 in. diam. x  2 in. thick, marble-like black color), but with the weight of the lamp shade, etc. it was too heavy and would fall, until I solved it with the serving tray as I just described above.