Unfortunately, I fell for the same trap that others have with this one. I should have gotten out the tape measure and really looked at what that height meant. This is bizarrely useless and awkward height for ANY lamp. Hard to imagine where this might be useful -- certainly not what I would understand a "task floor lamp" to be. And it's even a bit more bewildering when you consider that they designed this to have an adjustable height - but even the tallest setting is still weirdly short. Who on earth would want this even shorter?? And if you are going to design it to be adjustable, why not make it adjustable through measurements that people WOULD find useful? Just bizarre. Otherwise, the other qualities about it are fine.

Very very short and looks cheap.

Lamp arrived scuffed and missing the yoke/collar. Perigold did a great job in quickly resolving the issue.

It feels cheaply constructed, is very lightweight (could topple), has limited vertical range and the head cannot tilt in any direction. Going to have to return it.

This is a short task lamp as the 43" description states. This will not work for a reading lamp. Nice look.