Antique Table Lamp Styles
Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Table Lamp Styles
Iron
1920s German Art Deco Antique Table Lamp Styles
Brass
1910s American Arts and Crafts Antique Table Lamp Styles
Bronze, Brass
1920s Art Deco Antique Table Lamp Styles
Brass
1920s French Art Deco Antique Table Lamp Styles
Art Glass
Early 20th Century Czech Art Deco Antique Table Lamp Styles
Glass
Early 20th Century Austrian Baroque Revival Antique Table Lamp Styles
Crystal, Brass
Early 20th Century American Victorian Antique Table Lamp Styles
Brass
Early 20th Century Austrian Baroque Revival Antique Table Lamp Styles
Brass, Metal
1910s French Empire Antique Table Lamp Styles
Iron
Early 20th Century Austrian Baroque Revival Antique Table Lamp Styles
Crystal, Metal
Early 1900s Italian Antique Table Lamp Styles
19th Century Unknown Adam Style Antique Table Lamp Styles
Porcelain
Early 20th Century Antique Table Lamp Styles
Bronze
Early 20th Century French Antique Table Lamp Styles
Porcelain
Early 20th Century British Chinese Export Antique Table Lamp Styles
Bronze
1850s French Rococo Antique Table Lamp Styles
Brass
1920s Italian Modern Antique Table Lamp Styles
Metal
Early 20th Century Egyptian Revival Antique Table Lamp Styles
Metal
1920s French Antique Table Lamp Styles
Metal
19th Century French Antique Table Lamp Styles
Brass
Early 20th Century Adam Style Antique Table Lamp Styles
Marble
Early 1900s American Arts and Crafts Antique Table Lamp Styles
Metal
1650s Italian Renaissance Antique Table Lamp Styles
Bronze
Late 19th Century British Antique Table Lamp Styles
Brass
Early 20th Century Arts and Crafts Antique Table Lamp Styles
Bronze
1920s French Art Deco Antique Table Lamp Styles
Iron
Late 19th Century Egyptian Revival Antique Table Lamp Styles
Wood
Late 19th Century Victorian Antique Table Lamp Styles
Stained Glass
1920s Antique Table Lamp Styles
Bronze
Mid-19th Century French Antique Table Lamp Styles
Bronze
Early 1900s French Antique Table Lamp Styles
Bronze
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Table Lamp Styles
Bronze
Early 20th Century American Antique Table Lamp Styles
1920s American Antique Table Lamp Styles
1920s French Empire Antique Table Lamp Styles
Bronze
1920s French Empire Antique Table Lamp Styles
Bronze
Late 19th Century Asian Antique Table Lamp Styles
Earthenware
Early 1900s English Antique Table Lamp Styles
Porcelain
18th Century Antique Table Lamp Styles
Wood
1920s Italian Antique Table Lamp Styles
Brass
Late 19th Century French Antique Table Lamp Styles
Marble, Bronze
19th Century Unknown Chinese Export Antique Table Lamp Styles
Iron, Wrought Iron
18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Table Lamp Styles
Wood
19th Century Empire Antique Table Lamp Styles
Bronze
19th Century French Empire Antique Table Lamp Styles
Bronze
Late 19th Century Antique Table Lamp Styles
Iron
Early 20th Century Unknown Grand Tour Antique Table Lamp Styles
Marble, Bronze
19th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Table Lamp Styles
Marble, Bronze
1920s French Antique Table Lamp Styles
Silver Plate, Bronze
19th Century Unknown Louis XVI Antique Table Lamp Styles
Bronze
19th Century French Neoclassical Antique Table Lamp Styles
Bronze
Early 19th Century European Antique Table Lamp Styles
Composition
19th Century Chinese Antique Table Lamp Styles
Porcelain
Early 20th Century English Neoclassical Antique Table Lamp Styles
Brass
1830s Italian Antique Table Lamp Styles
Bronze
19th Century French Louis XV Antique Table Lamp Styles
Bronze
1920s French Louis XVI Antique Table Lamp Styles
Gold, Brass
19th Century American Mission Antique Table Lamp Styles
Brass
18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Table Lamp Styles
Bronze, Tôle
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Finding the Right table-lamps for You
Well-crafted antique and vintage table lamps do more than provide light; the right fixture-and-table combination can add a focal point or creative element to any interior.
Proper table lamps have long been used for lighting our most intimate spaces. Perfect for lighting your nightstand or reading nook, table lamps play an integral role in styling an inviting room. In the years before electricity, lamps used oil. Today, a rewired 19th-century vintage lamp can still provide a touch of elegance for a study.
After industrial milestones such as mass production took hold in the Victorian era, various design movements sought to bring craftsmanship and innovation back to this indispensable household item. Lighting designers affiliated with Art Deco, which originated in the glamorous roaring ’20s, sought to celebrate modern life by fusing modern metals with dark woods and dazzling colors in the fixtures of the era. The geometric shapes and gilded details of vintage Art Deco table lamps provide an air of luxury and sophistication that never goes out of style.
After launching in 1934, Anglepoise lamps soon became a favorite among modernist architects and designers, who interpreted the fixture as “a machine for lighting,” just as Le Corbusier had reimagined the house as “a machine for living in.” The popular task light owed to a collaboration between a vehicle-suspension engineer by the name of George Carwardine and a West Midlands springs manufacturer, Herbert Terry & Sons.
Some mid-century modern table lamps, particularly those created by the likes of Joe Colombo and the legendary lighting artisans at Fontana Arte, bear all the provocative hallmarks associated with Space Age design. Sculptural and versatile, the Louis Poulsen table lamps of that period were revolutionary for their time and still seem innovative today.
If you are looking for something more contemporary, industrial table lamps are demonstrative of a newly chic style that isn’t afraid to pay homage to the past. They look particularly at home in any rustic loft space amid exposed brick and steel beams.
Before you buy a desk lamp or table lamp for your living room, consider your lighting needs. The Snoopy lamp, designed in 1967, or any other “banker’s lamp” (shorthand for the Emeralite desk lamps patented by H.G. McFaddin and Company), provides light at a downward angle that is perfect for writing, while the Fontana table lamp and the beloved Grasshopper lamp by Greta Magnusson-Grossman each yield a soft and even glow. Some table lamps require lampshades to be bought separately.
Whether it’s a classic antique Tiffany table lamp, a Murano glass table lamp or even a bold avant-garde fixture custom-made by a contemporary design firm, the right table lamp can completely transform a room. Find the right one for you on 1stDibs.
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