We bought a few years ago in Ikea the -uninspiring but practical- reading lamp pictured here in Ikea’s pub shot. Unfortunately the shade got broken and we discovered that Ikea didn’t do replacements. That would have been it for me and I would have happily binned it- but not my wife Síle- who is a paid up member of the Society for Makers and Menders. She decided to keep a watchful eye out in Vide Greniers for a substitute. Yesterday she found the shade in the second picture and bought it for a shocking Euro. A good eye produced a silk purse I think!