First of all, I want to say that I enjoy this light, and I like the way it looks in my kitchen. I've received a number of compliments on it. But to the wary shopper, I'd like to at least address a few observations that I've made:
My main beef with this light is that there's no actual cork on it. What you will get is an attractive shade that has paper around it that has the appearance of cork. Basically its paper that has had a cork pattern printed on it. There's a big difference there. In the item description they call this a "Natural cork wrap shade", which COULD be misleading. When you check the material components it lists "Metal, Nickel, Steel. No mention of cork of course, but no mention of paper either. So just be prepared. There's no cork on it.
Secondly, this light hangs down too low for my needs with an 8ft ceiling. Bascially, if you assemble this thing with just the shortest extension piece, this light is going to hang way down low and hover about 3 - 4 feet above your table.This is fine if the light is directly over your table. It can look pretty cool. But if the light is going to be in your room with no table under it, it will hang down low enough where 6 foot people like myself are going to run into it! I remedied the situation by removing the whole attractive nickle fluted flare piece from the photo and just went with a short stem hanging down from the ceiling. And I like it.