Floor Lamp with Reading Light and Glass/Steel Shades

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 22.6 pounds
• ASIN: B000078QJ5
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #127,206 in Home Improvement (See Top 100 in Home Improvement)

Customer Reviews

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49 of 50 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous lamp; fabulous value, July 16, 2003

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"knord" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Floor Lamp with Reading Light and Glass/Steel Shades

This is an absolutely fabulous lamp for the price! It has a heavy base so it is very stable. Both the torchiere lamp and reading lamp are on swivels so they adjust through a wide range of angles. Thus, this lamp provides both general lighting and task lighting. The frosted glass shades are good quality and diffuse the light beautifully. The assembled lamp looks like a much more expensive one.

The lamp was very simple to assemble. All that is involved is screwing pieces of the stem together and attaching the shades. (And inserting the light bulbs, which are not included, of course.) I was amused to notice, however, that the very obvious screwing together of the stem pieces was fully covered in the included instruction sheet, but the less obvious mechanism to attach the shades was completely missing from the instructions. Basically, I was momentarily confused because I thought the pieces that hold the shades on were missing, but I eventually discovered that they had been screwed onto the lamp bases for shipping. One little note in the instructions that gave a hint to look there instead of somewhere within the plastic and Styrofoam packaging would have saved me about 10 minutes of looking.

With that one (very) small complaint, I can say that I liked this lamp in my home office so much, I am planning to buy another one for my living room.

24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Pretty lamp, but cheap, irreplaceable shades make it a lemon, August 14, 2005

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K. Wild "reluctant consumer" (Tucson, AZ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Floor Lamp with Reading Light and Glass/Steel Shades

I really loved the way this lamp looked and the light it gave off. The switch on the torchiere lamp is VERY stiff and tough to turn at times, but I could have lived with that. What I (and the lamp) could not live with was the thin, cheap glass from which the torchiere shade is constructed. My lamp is on carpet, and sits about 6" from the wall. Within a couple of months of having it, the shade sustained two huge cracks when it was bumped lightly against the wall. Since that time the shade bumped the wall lightly again, and the entire shade shattered. Not at all safe. I know the cost for this lamp isn't high, but I do wish the glass in the shade was just a bit thicker to prevent such an occurrence. I have another torchiere on the other side of the sofa that paid 2.5 times as much for, and that's served me well with no problems or breakage for 6 years & through one cross-country move. Perhaps in this case you really do get what you pay for. If anyone knows where I could get replacement shades that would FIT this lamp, please let me know. I looked, but it seems this shade is an odd size. :(

26 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Poorly designed, March 1, 2004

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Adam Henderson "Sushi afficionado" (Seattle) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Floor Lamp with Reading Light and Glass/Steel Shades

I bought this lamp from amazon.com and I'm really disappointed in it. My problems with it:

a. Lacking any kind of dimmer, it's reading lamp (the side one) is much too bright for it's intended purpose.

b. The swivel on the side lamp is useless - because of the lack of tension on the screw holding it in, it simply flops around. It looks useful and isn't - this is my biggest problem with this lamp.

This was my first purcahse of a lamp or furniture of any kind via Amazon, so perhaps I was just naive in believing some of the reviews.