Ikea Symfonisk Speaker Lamp

from £179 / ikea.com

ant to listen to a little light music? There’s a new weapon in the battle to save precious shelf space at home: Ikea’s updated Symfonisk table lamp, which has been given a major glow-up (pun wholly intended) over the 2019 version. The cunning Scandi flatpack fanatics have once again teamed up with OG smart speaker maker Sonos (presumably over a bowl of meatballs) to conjure up a combined lamp/speaker that includes a host of improvements.

UNION OF THE MAKES

For starters the acoustic architecture concealed in the lamp’s base has been given a major overhaul. It’s designed to be used solo or combined with other Sonos speakers, and you can team up multiple Symfonisks if you want to light up your home with expansive sounds (the range also includes a £99 wireless bookshelf speaker and a £199 wall-mountable picture-frame speaker).

The lamp uses good old Wi-fi to connect to your home network, but it’s worth noting that on the lighting side of things it’s just a table lamp: you can’t turn it on and off using your smart home assistant unless you’ve fitted a smart bulb. Luckily, Ikea sells those too.

The base comes in white or black finishes and is sold separately to the shade, allowing you to mix and match to suit your home’s decor.