Overall, other reviews are correct: base is very heavy and shade is a little cheap looking.  Another thing is that if you wish to put this in a corner, it won't go all the way back because the base is round, so when we tried to put it behind our sectional, we had to remove the base and actually make our own.  See pictures, so it looks great and looks exactly how we wanted it to, but it took a substantial amount of work on our part.  If you do NOT need to put it in a corner as we did, the lamp is great as-is aside from the shade looking a little cheap compared to the lamp.