This IKEA desk lamp was designed in the 1980s in the famous Memphis style. White Acrylic lampshade and body, in the colors red, blue and White, the lamp can be used as a desklamp or as a wall lamp, the acrylic shade can turn left to right and up to down (45 degrees) The Italian Memphis Group was a design and architecture group founded by Ettore Sottsass (1917-2007) in 1981 in Milan which designed Postmodern furniture, lights, fabrics, ceramics, glass and metal objects from 1981 to 1987. The name was taken after the Bob Dylan song “Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again“. The song was played constantly during the first meeting of the designers on the 11th December 1980.