This lamp is nicely styled, but gives only very soft "mood" type lighting with only a 25 watt bulb allowed. The off-white paper inserts for the sides of the lamp have globs of dried glue on them that have oozed out from behind the black cross pieces of the design, which looks bad, but the lamp still looks cool at a distance. If it won't be seen up close, it's OK. Very chic design.