This is a very cheap (think 3 quid) lamp in a retro style with shiny bright coloured plastic base and fabric type shade. They come in a variety of colours including a quite horrible bright pink, which my daughter immediately spotted and coveted. Being a sucker I got her one. It was delivered in no packaging at all except cellophane! Because of this lack of protection, the base had a big crack in it. We ordered another.... Second one arrived, as equally under-dressed as the first one, and this one lasted 3 days before it stopped working. <sigh> We ordered another. The third (and lucky? ) lamp has survived a whole month ...  Read the complete review

In desperate need of a pink lamp, my 5 year old daughter would flick through the argos magazine and find lamps that she would then come to me and ask for. I ignored it for a while until I realized I should probably buy her one since she clearly wasn't moving on to something else in the catalogue! I saw this Argos value range lamp for just under three pounds and I thought it would be perfect. I bought it for her and she loves it. I regret not buying it earlier since its pretty cheap and does and excellent job at lighting up the room. It's not the most sturdy of things to be honest, since it is basically a plastic stand and a lamp shade but it does the exact same ...  Read the complete review

I have a real love of lamps in my home. I own rather a few of them in my large flat and this one I recently purchased whilst it was on offer at a mere £1.99 a lamp and I bought it for my hallway which is rather wide and wanted it to pop on a bookshelf there. The Packaging: This came wrapped in see-through plastic and with a label on the front of it where we are told what it is, who it is by and the colour option is stated then within that wrapper we are given a very small piece of paper which bascially only tells us which bulbs to use within in and contact detail for Argos are given. The Lamp: Now these are part of the 'Colour ...  Read the complete review