about 6 months ago I picked up this lamp shade/light fixture from Ikea, thinking I could do something with this. I liked the idea of a floor lamp with a hanging shade. I have several old butterfly chairs and a hanging lamp would work well for those. I tried several 'frames' from broom handles (a tripod, where the broom part is the stabilizer) to a plywood arm mounted to the wall. The arm would have a groove where the cord would sit and you could swing the arm to where you needed the light. there is a lamp like this in MOMA, I can't recall who did this. Prouvé? I'll look it up and report back. I then came across a neat small lamp in Dwell at the same time re-discovered the Mezzadro stool by Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni. It is basically a tractor seat mounted on a bent steal stem with a horizontal piece of wood to stabilize the whole thing. It's amazing. These guys are my hero's as they used found pieces frequently in their work. So I think I found a way to build a frame by combining the foot of the stool (like the Dwell lamp) and the swinging arm, and a unique way to join all the pieces.
I had some 1" plywood hanging around and I love the things that just snap together without hardware (my kids love legos and I love the paper models of fit tab A. into slot B...), so I made the joints to slip together without hardware, it's stable as ever. Here it is, there are three pieces that slide together and you go buy yourself an Ikea lamp shade and plug it in.