Wellllllll......these lamps look great at a distance, but up close, the gold ring has a ton of scratches and looks super cheap, and the black base has some weird sticky coating on it which was weird rub/clean off.  The shape and white lamp shade is nice though and I do like how tall they are as it makes a statement in my guest bedroom. I think these lamps are nice, also a good thing you get two, but I do think if the "cheap gold look" were to be replaced with a silver/stainless steel color, they'd look a lot better!  I do like them, they just have slight imperfections.