List Price: $180.00
Sale Price: $113.40
Today's Bonus: 37% Off
These gorgeous lamps caught my eye. After years of searching, I was ready to bid farewell to my Southwestern bean-pots and their coolie hat shades. When the compact Pondex package arrived at my door step, sadly the lamps' warts, also appeared. The resin lamps multi segments and leaf rings were loosely attached. This required quite a bit of rotating, to find a sweet spot for half decent alignment, making the listing lamps stand straight. Turning and adjusting the rings scraped the urns. Keep a black magic marker handy for touch ups. The lamp warts got worse. The fold up, (yes think accordion,) bell shades had permanent wrinkles where the gold silk was adhered to the backing. Iron out the wrinkles and the shade sags at the bottom. I finally ripped out the sticky bottom, re-sewed it taut, and re-adhered it with a hot iron. One shade arrived with a hot glue hole that required careful sewing. This was too much fun; the last straw was the wood finials, each cut and drilled at an angle, so they appeared bent and useless. I had two antique brass ones I commandeered from other lamps. Angered, I considered sending my warty beauties back to Pondex, but feared getting a worse batch. The two beautiful lamps from my batch had no quality control from China. I truly hope my rotten experience was a fluke. I gave them three stars, because a designer came up with a gorgeous lamp; the execution and machining leave much to be desired, unless you like a warty beauty!
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