Really sleek lamp. Love how we can slide the base under our couch, which is by a wall. Not real difficult to put together, as there's just a few pieces. The trick is to connect the rod in the lower piece to the upper piece first. Then when you are screwing in the base to the lower piece using the other end of the same rod it will simultaneously tighten the lower piece into the upper piece. Took us a few minutes to realize that, but once you do it makes the assembly a lot simpler.