Design Porn: The Tulip Lamp

How gorgeous is this luscious tulip-inspired floor lamp, by the French Bedroom Company? Made from a uniquely textured paper-like fabric, it's designed to be soft to the touch and to diffuse the light softly around the room, mixing artistic sculpture with interior design.

It doesn't look too sturdy, so you'd need to be careful of clumsy wine-caused tumbles around it, but it's got that ethereal fairytale thing going on without being too obviously kooky. At £595, it isn't cheap, but if you take into account that it was originally £695, then maybe you can convince yourself that by buying it you'll actually be saving £100. A tidy sum not to be sniffed at, I'm sure you'll agree. Or at least that's the logic I'll be sticking to...