I bought two of these lamps in satin nickel. They are gorgeous and they throw a lot of light.  They arrived in a flat box with "some assembly required" and no real instructions, but even so they went together without too much trouble.

The lamps have a black plastic heavily-weighted base, which is not all that bad looking if the lamp is to be used in the open.  Black doesn't really "go" in my color scheme, but I bought these lamps to arch over sofas from the back, so the black base is hidden this way. They look absolutely great.