The lamp measures 21 x 21 x 21 cm and consists of an acrylic striped cube-shaped body with a 20 watt PL bulb inside. The coloured strips, cut from translucent acrylic plastic sheets can be combined in different size/colour combinations to produce a variety of patterns. When the lamp is on, diffused back light shines through the translucent acrylic body and when the light is switched off, the lamp becomes a brightly-striped, stand-alone, modern cube design in its own right. It looks best in a bold, contemporary setting. A further feature with this robust lamp is that the light density can be set to varying degrees of opaqueness/translucence without the diffusion of the light itself being affected.