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But lamps seem like one of those items that you can easily buy good quality items for relatively little.
You would think so, but £30 gets you something pretty poorly made and designed in my experience. I think this is less representative of 'poor lampshade design and manufacturing' and more post-2008 economics. You have to spend £200 now to get a lamp that would have cost you £30 in 2006 or something.
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I'm going out myself as a basic bitch. But lamps seem like one of those items that you can easily buy good quality items for relatively little.
Admittedly our last ones were 70s BHS from a bootsale - which definitely were cheap at the time. But the last nice one we bought was from JL in the sale for £30ish and all the materials, pivots, cord, etc. were high quality...
...but I guess that applies to lots of designer products. And at least (for now) designer furniture is a good investment. Although that can always flip - just look at the difference in price between handcrafted Georgian furniture made by skilled craftsmen out of premium wood vs what is essentially mass production techniques from relatively cheap materials.