Floor Lamps
20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Modern Floor Lamps
Wood
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Floor Lamps
Steel, Chrome
1950s European Mid-Century Modern Vintage Floor Lamps
Aluminum, Brass, Iron
20th Century Swedish Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps
Brass
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Floor Lamps
Bronze, Iron
2010s Italian Modern Floor Lamps
Alabaster, Brass
1970s Unknown Modern Vintage Floor Lamps
Bronze
1980s American American Craftsman Vintage Floor Lamps
Iron
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Floor Lamps
Brass
1970s Italian Organic Modern Vintage Floor Lamps
Steel, Stainless Steel
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Floor Lamps
Metal, Gold Leaf
19th Century French Empire Antique Floor Lamps
Bronze
20th Century European Belle Époque Floor Lamps
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
1960s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage Floor Lamps
Iron, Wire
1940s American Art Deco Vintage Floor Lamps
Brass
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Floor Lamps
Marble, Aluminum, Brass
1950s Austrian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Floor Lamps
Brass
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Floor Lamps
Metal, Brass
1930s American Art Deco Vintage Floor Lamps
Stainless Steel
Early 1900s French Neoclassical Revival Antique Floor Lamps
Ormolu
1960s Italian Art Deco Vintage Floor Lamps
Gold Leaf
2010s Belgian Organic Modern Floor Lamps
Concrete, Iron
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Floor Lamps
Metal, Brass
2010s Belgian Modern Floor Lamps
Steel
1970s Italian Space Age Vintage Floor Lamps
Brass
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Floor Lamps
Brass, Steel
1950s Swedish Modern Vintage Floor Lamps
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary British Modern Floor Lamps
Bronze
Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps
Wicker
1940s French Vintage Floor Lamps
Iron
2010s Spanish Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Cotton
1970s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Floor Lamps
Rattan, Pine
1960s French Post-Modern Vintage Floor Lamps
Metal, Aluminum, Chrome
1960s Vintage Floor Lamps
Metal
1970s French Space Age Vintage Floor Lamps
Chrome
1970s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Floor Lamps
Metal, Brass
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Floor Lamps
Wood, Plywood
1970s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Floor Lamps
Steel
1960s European Mid-Century Modern Vintage Floor Lamps
Teak
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Floor Lamps
Chrome
1970s Italian Hollywood Regency Vintage Floor Lamps
Brass
1970s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Floor Lamps
Iron
1980s Italian Vintage Floor Lamps
Metal
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Floor Lamps
Glass
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Modern Floor Lamps
Wood
1970s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Floor Lamps
Gold Leaf
1950s Japanese Mid-Century Modern Vintage Floor Lamps
Bamboo, Paper
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Floor Lamps
Granite, Stainless Steel
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Floor Lamps
Chrome
Early 2000s Japanese Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Art Deco Floor Lamps
Marble, Brass, Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Floor Lamps
Crystal, Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Danish Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Floor Lamps
Marble, Brass, Stainless Steel
21st Century and Contemporary French Modern Floor Lamps
Blown Glass
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Floor Lamps
Bronze
Antique, New and Vintage Floor Lamps
The modern floor lamp is an evolution of torchères — tall floor candelabras that originated in France as a revolutionary development in lighting homes toward the end of the 17th century. Owing to the advent of electricity and the introduction of new materials as a part of lighting design, floor lamps have taken on new forms and configurations over the years.
In the early 1920s, Art Deco lighting artisans worked with dark woods and modern metals, introducing unique designs that still inspire the look of modern floor lamps developed by contemporary firms such as Luxxu.
Popular mid-century floor lamps include everything from the enchanting fixtures by the Italian lighting artisans at Stilnovo to the distinctly functional Grasshopper floor lamp created by Scandinavian design pioneer Greta Magnusson-Grossman to the Paracarro floor lamp by the Venetian master glass workers at Mazzega. Among the more celebrated names in mid-century lighting design are Milanese innovators Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, who, along with their eldest brother, Livio, worked for their own firm as architects and designers. While Livio departed the practice in 1952, Achille and Pier Giacomo would go on to design the Arco floor lamp, the Toio floor lamp and more for legendary lighting brands such as FLOS.
Today’s upscale interiors frequently integrate the otherworldly custom lighting solutions created by a wealth of contemporary firms and designers such as Spain’s Masquespacio, whose Wink floor lamps integrate gold as well as fabric fringes.
Visual artists and industrial designers have a penchant for floor lamps, possibly because they’re so often a clever marriage of design and the functions of lighting. A good floor lamp can change the mood of any room while adding a touch of elegance to your entire space. Find yours now on 1stDibs.