this was an amazing deal they are so sturdy and made so well with 3 settings comes with lightbulbs I did use my own though due to I like daylight bulbs and well 2 lamps helped revamp my lighting and now everything is so bright and welcoming highly recommend these lamps the base and pole are metal and the lantern shades are not paper they are a fabric amazing will be buying more soon! extremely high quality for the price !!!!!