Vintage Industrial Desk Lamp Lamps Lighting
Mid-20th Century Industrial Vintage Industrial Desk Lamp Lamps Lighting
Brass
1940s North American Industrial Vintage Industrial Desk Lamp Lamps Lighting
Metal
1940s American Industrial Vintage Industrial Desk Lamp Lamps Lighting
Steel
1930s Belgian Industrial Vintage Industrial Desk Lamp Lamps Lighting
Metal
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Industrial Desk Lamp Lamps Lighting
Metal
20th Century French Industrial Vintage Industrial Desk Lamp Lamps Lighting
Aluminum, Brass, Steel
1950s Industrial Vintage Industrial Desk Lamp Lamps Lighting
Metal
Mid-20th Century American Industrial Vintage Industrial Desk Lamp Lamps Lighting
Metal
1970s French Vintage Industrial Desk Lamp Lamps Lighting
Aluminum
Mid-20th Century British Mid-Century Modern Vintage Industrial Desk Lamp Lamps Lighting
Steel
1960s Czech Mid-Century Modern Vintage Industrial Desk Lamp Lamps Lighting
Metal
Mid-20th Century Czech Mid-Century Modern Vintage Industrial Desk Lamp Lamps Lighting
Metal
Mid-20th Century American Industrial Vintage Industrial Desk Lamp Lamps Lighting
Metal
1960s Dutch Industrial Vintage Industrial Desk Lamp Lamps Lighting
Metal
20th Century Japanese Industrial Vintage Industrial Desk Lamp Lamps Lighting
Aluminum
Mid-20th Century French Industrial Vintage Industrial Desk Lamp Lamps Lighting
Iron
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Industrial Desk Lamp Lamps Lighting
Metal, Nickel
1930s North American Industrial Vintage Industrial Desk Lamp Lamps Lighting
Brass
Late 20th Century German Industrial Vintage Industrial Desk Lamp Lamps Lighting
Metal, Chrome, Iron
Mid-20th Century British Industrial Vintage Industrial Desk Lamp Lamps Lighting
Metal
1970s Czech Industrial Vintage Industrial Desk Lamp Lamps Lighting
Chrome, Iron
Mid-20th Century German Industrial Vintage Industrial Desk Lamp Lamps Lighting
Enamel, Iron
Mid-20th Century British Mid-Century Modern Vintage Industrial Desk Lamp Lamps Lighting
Steel
1950s German Industrial Vintage Industrial Desk Lamp Lamps Lighting
Metal
Mid-20th Century American Modern Vintage Industrial Desk Lamp Lamps Lighting
Metal
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Industrial Desk Lamp Lamps Lighting
Metal
1960s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Industrial Desk Lamp Lamps Lighting
Metal, Aluminum
1940s English Industrial Vintage Industrial Desk Lamp Lamps Lighting
Steel
Mid-20th Century Belgian Vintage Industrial Desk Lamp Lamps Lighting
Enamel, Steel, Iron
1930s Czech Industrial Vintage Industrial Desk Lamp Lamps Lighting
Aluminum, Chrome, Metal
1930s Italian Industrial Vintage Industrial Desk Lamp Lamps Lighting
Metal, Steel
1960s Scandinavian Industrial Vintage Industrial Desk Lamp Lamps Lighting
Metal, Chrome
Mid-20th Century American Industrial Vintage Industrial Desk Lamp Lamps Lighting
Steel
1930s American Industrial Vintage Industrial Desk Lamp Lamps Lighting
Steel
20th Century American Industrial Vintage Industrial Desk Lamp Lamps Lighting
Metal
1970s French Industrial Vintage Industrial Desk Lamp Lamps Lighting
Metal
Mid-20th Century Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage Industrial Desk Lamp Lamps Lighting
Steel
Mid-20th Century American Vintage Industrial Desk Lamp Lamps Lighting
Metal
Mid-20th Century Unknown Mid-Century Modern Vintage Industrial Desk Lamp Lamps Lighting
Metal
1930s English Industrial Vintage Industrial Desk Lamp Lamps Lighting
Steel
Mid-20th Century Italian Industrial Vintage Industrial Desk Lamp Lamps Lighting
Steel
1930s English Industrial Vintage Industrial Desk Lamp Lamps Lighting
Enamel, Steel
1930s English Industrial Vintage Industrial Desk Lamp Lamps Lighting
Steel
1930s British Industrial Vintage Industrial Desk Lamp Lamps Lighting
Metal
Late 20th Century American Industrial Vintage Industrial Desk Lamp Lamps Lighting
Silver, Brass
1930s French Vintage Industrial Desk Lamp Lamps Lighting
Chrome
1940s British Industrial Vintage Industrial Desk Lamp Lamps Lighting
Metal
Mid-20th Century English Industrial Vintage Industrial Desk Lamp Lamps Lighting
Aluminum
1940s British Industrial Vintage Industrial Desk Lamp Lamps Lighting
Metal
Mid-20th Century Czech Industrial Vintage Industrial Desk Lamp Lamps Lighting
Aluminum, Iron
1930s American Industrial Vintage Industrial Desk Lamp Lamps Lighting
Steel
Mid-20th Century French Industrial Vintage Industrial Desk Lamp Lamps Lighting
Metal, Aluminum
Mid-20th Century French Industrial Vintage Industrial Desk Lamp Lamps Lighting
Metal, Aluminum
20th Century Industrial Vintage Industrial Desk Lamp Lamps Lighting
Aluminum
1950s American Art Deco Vintage Industrial Desk Lamp Lamps Lighting
Metal, Aluminum
Mid-20th Century Hungarian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Industrial Desk Lamp Lamps Lighting
Metal
1950s French Industrial Vintage Industrial Desk Lamp Lamps Lighting
Steel
1930s North American Industrial Vintage Industrial Desk Lamp Lamps Lighting
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Industrial Desk Lamp Lamps Lighting
Metal
Mid-20th Century Industrial Vintage Industrial Desk Lamp Lamps Lighting
Iron
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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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