I was able to assemble this by myself not without a decent amount of effort. At first I thought the hardware was missing but it was actually attached to metal poles. I took the advice of one reviewer and placed the marble base on something that will help me move the lamp once it’s assembled (a towel or a piece of cardboard). The part that may require an extra hand is screwing the nut underneath the base to attach to the metal pipe. Other than that, putting it together was easy. I bought a 1000w lightbulb and it looked great! Very high quality