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IKEA Fjorton Table Lamp

Materials: Silver painted cast iron feet base. Hand blown blue opal oval globe lampshade. 2 chrome springs. Plastic E14 lamp socket.

Height: 20,5 cm / 8.07”

Width: ∅ 9 cm / 3.54”

Electricity: 1 bulb E14,  1 x 40 watt maximum, 110/220 volt.
Any type of light bulb can be used. Not a specific one preferred. For glass lampshades frosted or white light bulbs gives the best result.

Period: 2000s.

Designer: Tatsuo Konno.

Manufacturer: IKEA, Delft, The Netherlands.

Other versions: The Fjorton table lamp exists in white, blue, & red. It appears in IKEA catalogues from 2000 until 2002.

IKEA

IKEA, formerly known by its full initials, Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd Agunnaryd, is a multinational group, headquartered in Delft, The Netherlands. The company was founded in Älmhult, Sweden in 1943 by then-17-year-old Ingvar Kamprad (30 March 1926 – 27 January 2018)

The first real shop in Sweden opened in 1958. In 1963 and 1969 the first shops opened in Norway and Denmark. In 1973 Switzerland, Germany and Japan. Other countries followed rapidly. In the Benelux (Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg) the first shops started business in 1978 (Sliedrecht, The Netherlands) and in 1984 in Zaventem and Ternat (Belgium).

IKEA Fjorton Table Lamp – 2002 IKEA catalogue picture

IKEA Fjorton table lamp cast iron base blue glass lampshade 2002 catalogue picture Sweden