I thought this would be a good choice for our library, but it didn't work for us. Unfortunately, the lamp is much larger than it appears in the pictures and not very elegant in design. (My husband and I both thought it was kind of horsey.) We expected honey brass to be brushed brass but it turns out it's a black smoked finish overlayed on the brass. All we could think of is that it looked like the lamp had been in a fire. Aesthetically, it didn't work for us. Ott lamps continue to receive very high praise from multiple members in my knittng/needlework group so I'm going to look for another style that's less clunky.