Although your mushroom lamp will most likely live on a table and not in your arms, we can’t help but notice that a lot of lucky lamp owners love holding them up to get ‘the shot’.

But if you'd prefer to buy one instead, there's an adorable mushroom lamp from IKEA that fits the bill. The IKEA NÖDMAST is a little cordless lamp that has a simple dome shade and cylindrical ...

Pieces like the Oceana, an alabaster dome table lamp with a sleek metal rim by David ... straight out of the late 1960s with an opaline mushroom shade perched atop an oxblood base.