The lamp itself is great, just what I wanted. I knocked 1 star off due to the instructions. When the lamp is delivered each metal pole has a black plastic split ring inserted into the end. These appear to be part of the lamp and make you think they should be there. But when you try to insert the poles into eachother they will not go in due to these plastic rings. The instructions make no mention of them. So it took a while to realise that these need removing before inserting the poles