Ikea Knappa Lamp in Orange?

Scrolling through one of our go to design blogs the other day, Desire to Inspire, we came across this picture. Hey, isn't that the Knappa lamp...but in orange? We know a spot where this would be perfect so we clicked over to the Ikea website, credit card at the ready. No go. Hmmm, perhaps in Ikea Australia? Nope...

So we're putting the question out there...have any of you seen the Knappa lamp in orange or are we gonna have to resort to spray paint?

[Image by Amanda McLauchlan Photography via Desire to Inspire]

Comments (10)

nope. never seen it in orange, i figured it was painted.

posted by eribear12 on July 2nd 2008 at 11:38am
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me niether- i thought it was painted too... although looks like something Jess at How About Orange would like to see!
would spray paint do the job? seeing this makes me want to give mine a makeover...

posted by abbatron on July 2nd 2008 at 11:49am
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That looks really sweet!

posted by quiltmaster on July 2nd 2008 at 1:51pm
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That doesn't look like paint to me. Are you sure they didn't make it? It looks kind of easy to make if you knew what was what.

posted by K T G on July 2nd 2008 at 4:24pm
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Doesn't the knappa come in pieces which have to be assembled? Seems simple to take the same type of material in orange and cut out the same shapes to make an orange one.

posted by Fatica on July 2nd 2008 at 5:50pm
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How about Photoshop?

posted by Deb of Oz on July 3rd 2008 at 1:53am
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I've tried spraypainting a Knappa red and it worked just fine.

However, I guess if you bought the lamp in white, it would be very easy to just use the plastic petals it comes with as a pattern to cut the same shapes out of any slightly bendy material - and then you could just assemble them on the plastic "skeleton" in the middle of the lamp.

posted by Heike on July 3rd 2008 at 2:40am
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No, but something similar can be found here:
http://www.mid20thcenturydesign.com/page2.htm

posted by mollyk on July 5th 2008 at 8:25am
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oooo that would be beyond perfect in my foyer (light blue & orange).

posted by mariegael on July 6th 2008 at 10:17am
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Very nice find Molly.

posted by quiltmaster on July 6th 2008 at 1:10pm
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