Tripod (or three-legged) lamps are popping up everywhere and I mean everywhere. It’s virtually impossible to flick though more than a few pages in a home decorating magazine these days without coming across an interior design scheme featuring a tripod lamp. It’s clearly a must have in the decorating world at the moment! Here are a just a couple of examples to show you what I mean:

These three-legged little creatures have also managed to creep into a couple of posts here at Trendey, check out Mia’s posts Please Be Seated and Inspirational Rooms at Old School House. – Spooky how they get about!

So are the tripods really that great? Well, I am not completely convinced. I think they are nice enough – I particularly like the more industrial looking examples and those that look a bit like spotlights from some old Hollywood movie set – but I feel that they are just a bit OVERLY trendy just now and that makes me mulish. I’m not getting one until they go out of fashion. So there!

And that’s the lamp I’m talking about.: Isn’t it great! The good old Anglepoise lamp has been around since the 1930s (invented by British motor car designer George Carwardine) and I bet most of us will have had some version of this lamp illuminating our desks at some point. The Giant Anglepoise Lamp is three times the size of the original lamp and was created in celebration of the 70th Birthday of the Anglepoise.

I really like this lamp! It’s so deliciously out of proportion and would make a cool design statement in any room (I want it in my study). Handmade in England, this lamp doesn’t come cheap however… prices range from £1,200 to £1,990 depending on colour (check out the range at Anglepoise)

Right, now all I need to do is go and convince my husband that we need to spend two grand on a giant desk lamp… erm… Just in case this should fail, I would consider settling for this one designed by Muno available at RockettsStGeorge. It’s actually rather nice as well and only costs £249!