No assembly instructions. Couldn’t get them online either. Wayfair said it would be weeks to send them. I did figure it out. It really wasn’t that difficult but I wasn’t comfortable jamming and folding electrical cord into the lamp base and would have liked to have known that that was the intent. The shades snap and Velcro. The gold part on the base is the touch not the body of the lamp. 

This was my first negative experience with Wayfair.  I won’t order a lamp that requires assembly again.