Elegant, looks expensive, and gorgeous when lit. Really a great value. One drawback of this style is we're constantly shifting it a little this way or that way to make is straight. But that is just the price you pay with any extended on one string. A couple of small aesthetic things I find irritating is that you see the wires at the point of intersection where the single hooks onto each individual post. It's how you get away with having that cool industrial "hooked" together effect-- is that it's actually hooked together so the wire enters and exits for about a 1/2 an inch. The other is that no matter what we do we cant seem to get both shades perfectly level on the same plane (see photo). Honestly, I hardly notice it. It wouldn't stop me from buying it again, especially after looking at the hundreds of other less-interesting pieces in this price range. It makes the whole room.