Absolutely love the style and it does put out a nice amount of light from all sides, not just the bottom.  The shade is more of a true white color than most others I’d encountered, don’t let the photo with the light on deceive you, that’s just the camera making it look more yellows, the light it emits and the shade itself is more of a clean white. Only reason I am giving this 4 stars instead of 5 is because it requires a special low voltage dimmer switch which will run you around $70.  If you don’t need it on a dimmer, any switch should be fine.  Aesthetically though it’s perfect!