Pipistrello Vintage
1960s Italian Modern Pipistrello Vintage
Metal
1970s Contemporary Pipistrello Vintage
Etching
Late 20th Century Italian Space Age Pipistrello Vintage
Metal
1970s Italian Post-Modern Pipistrello Vintage
Chrome
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Pipistrello Vintage
Metal
1990s Italian Mid-Century Modern Pipistrello Vintage
Metal
1970s Italian Modern Pipistrello Vintage
Aluminum
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Pipistrello Vintage
Marble
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Pipistrello Vintage
Aluminum
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Pipistrello Vintage
Metal, Brass
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Pipistrello Vintage
Metal
20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Pipistrello Vintage
Aluminum
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21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Minimalist Pipistrello Vintage
Marble, Travertine
2010s French Modern Pipistrello Vintage
Oak
21st Century and Contemporary Mexican Mid-Century Modern Pipistrello Vintage
Textile, Wood
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Pipistrello Vintage
Aluminum
2010s American Modern Pipistrello Vintage
Composition
21st Century and Contemporary Mexican Mid-Century Modern Pipistrello Vintage
Textile, Wood
2010s Mexican Mid-Century Modern Pipistrello Vintage
Hide, Maple
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Pipistrello Vintage
Brass
1970s Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Pipistrello Vintage
Rosewood, Leather, Fiberglass
21st Century and Contemporary Danish Scandinavian Modern Pipistrello Vintage
Wool, Oak
Late 20th Century American Modern Pipistrello Vintage
Bouclé
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Organic Modern Pipistrello Vintage
Travertine
1960s Italian Pipistrello Vintage
Leather, Teak
1970s French Mid-Century Modern Pipistrello Vintage
Leather
20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Pipistrello Vintage
Wood, Pine
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Pipistrello Vintage
Brass
Recent Sales
1960s Pipistrello Vintage
Metal, Steel
1960s European Other Pipistrello Vintage
1960s Italian Pipistrello Vintage
1960s Italian Pipistrello Vintage
Aluminum
1970s Pipistrello Vintage
Aluminum
20th Century Italian Pipistrello Vintage
Steel
1960s Italian Modern Pipistrello Vintage
Stainless Steel, Steel
1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Pipistrello Vintage
Metal
1960s Italian Pipistrello Vintage
1970s Italian Pipistrello Vintage
Metal
1980s Italian Pipistrello Vintage
Metal, Steel
1960s Italian Pipistrello Vintage
Metal, Steel
1960s Mid-Century Modern Pipistrello Vintage
1960s Italian Pipistrello Vintage
Mid-20th Century Italian Pipistrello Vintage
Aluminum
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Pipistrello Vintage
Aluminum
1960s Italian Pipistrello Vintage
Late 20th Century Italian Pipistrello Vintage
Chrome, Metal
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Pipistrello Vintage
Steel
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Pipistrello Vintage
Plastic
Mid-20th Century Italian Post-Modern Pipistrello Vintage
Acrylic
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Pipistrello Vintage
Metal, Chrome
1960s Italian Pipistrello Vintage
Metal, Stainless Steel
1960s Italian Pipistrello Vintage
20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Pipistrello Vintage
Brass
1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Pipistrello Vintage
Steel
1960s Italian Pipistrello Vintage
Aluminum, Steel
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Pipistrello Vintage
Stainless Steel, Steel
1980s Italian Modern Pipistrello Vintage
Aluminum
20th Century European Mid-Century Modern Pipistrello Vintage
Metal
1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Pipistrello Vintage
Metal, Chrome
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Pipistrello Vintage
Metal, Chrome
1960s Italian Pipistrello Vintage
Steel, Aluminum
1990s Italian Mid-Century Modern Pipistrello Vintage
Metal
1960s Italian Pipistrello Vintage
20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Pipistrello Vintage
Steel
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Pipistrello Vintage
Stainless Steel, Metal
Mid-20th Century Italian Modern Pipistrello Vintage
Aluminum
1960s Italian Space Age Pipistrello Vintage
Metal
1990s Italian Mid-Century Modern Pipistrello Vintage
Metal
1960s Pipistrello Vintage
Acrylic
1980s Italian Space Age Pipistrello Vintage
Aluminum
20th Century Italian Modern Pipistrello Vintage
Aluminum, Brass
1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Pipistrello Vintage
Metal, Aluminum
1990s Italian Mid-Century Modern Pipistrello Vintage
Metal
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Pipistrello Vintage
Metal
1990s Italian Mid-Century Modern Pipistrello Vintage
Metal
1970s Italian Post-Modern Pipistrello Vintage
Aluminum
1990s Italian Mid-Century Modern Pipistrello Vintage
Metal
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Pipistrello Vintage
Stainless Steel
1960s Italian Pipistrello Vintage
Metal
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Pipistrello Vintage
Steel
Late 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Pipistrello Vintage
Stainless Steel
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Pipistrello Vintage
Metal
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Pipistrello Vintage
Metal
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Pipistrello Vintage
Metal
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Pipistrello Vintage
Steel
1960s Italian Pipistrello Vintage
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Pipistrello Vintage
Metal
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Pipistrello Vintage
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Pipistrello Vintage For Sale on 1stDibs
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Gae Aulenti for sale on 1stDibs
The Italian architect and designer Gae Aulenti will forever be best remembered for her work with museums, in particular her 1980–86 renovation of a Beaux Arts Paris train station to create the galleries of the Musée d’Orsay. Aulenti — whose first name, short for Gaetana, is pronounced “guy” — should also be recalled for her tough intellectual spirit and for working steadily when few women found successful architectural careers in postwar Italy.
After she graduated from the Milan Polytechic in 1954, Aulenti opened an architectural office. She also joined the staff of the progressive architectural magazine Casabella, whose editorial line was that the establishment, orthodox modernism of Le Corbusier and the Bauhaus, had outlived it usefulness. When their movement for fresh approaches to architecture and design received a sympathetic hearing, Aulenti found patrons — most prominently Gianni Agnelli, of Fiat, who later employed her to renovate the Palazzo Grassi in Venice for use as an arts exhibition space.
Commissions for showrooms and other corporate spaces brought Aulenti to furniture design. She felt that furniture should never dominate a room. Her chairs and sofas — low-slung, with rounded enameled metal frames and ample seats — and tables, particularly her 1972 marble Jumbo coffee table for Knoll, project solidity and sturdiness. In lighting design, however, Aulenti is bravura.
Each work has a marvelous sculptural presence. Pieces such as her Pipistrello table lamp and Quadrifoglio pendant are a perfect marriage of organically shaped glass and high-tech fixtures. Others have a futuristic elegance — and some even have a touch of personality. Aulenti’s Pileino and La Ruspa table lamps each look almost like little robots. Her lighting pieces are an artful grace note in the career of a woman who believed in strength.
Find vintage Gae Aulenti armchairs, coffee tables and other furniture on 1stDibs.
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.