These look very nice, but the faux leather covering on the base was put on in a sloppy way: many lumps, bumps, and creases. It took a while to pull and tug to get them moderately smoothed out. It was also unnecessarily hard to put the lamp together - screwing on the upper, bulb holding part was really hard and is a bad idea. The lamp wires get ridiculously twisted insde the lamp, and I'm sure they will break for someone, sometime: A real potential safety hazard. I replaced the single setting socket with a three-way (which it really should have come with). A very nice looking lamp, but with some issues.