Antique Vintage Oak Dining Table, Handcrafted, Rustic Style
Located in LEGNY, FR
Superb pair of Louis XVI style girandoles / candelabra in gilt bronze and cut crystal. These elegant pieces feature a finely crafted gilt bronze structure, richly adorned with hangi...
Crystal, Bronze
Pair of "Sèvres" Porcelain and Gilt Bronze Candelabra-Vases, France, Circa 1880
By Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres
Located in PARIS, FR
The sconces, adorned with foliage and vine branches, are joined by elegant garlands of crystals cut in prisms and mirzas. Two openwork handles decorated with foliage and a garland fr...
Crystal, Bronze
A pair of Italian 18th century Louis XV st Giltwood Gilt metal mirrored sconces
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Hanging from each bobeche are prism cut Crystal pendants. The highly decorative mottled Giltwood frame is designed with finely carved blooming flowers at the base as well as on eithe...
Crystal, Metal
French 19th Century Louis XVI Style Belle Époque Period Chandelier
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Belle Epoque period ormolu and Baccarat crystal chandelier. The chandelier is centered by a beautiful cut crystal ball amidst striking smooth and cut tear drop and prism shaped cryst...
Crystal, Ormolu
A pair of Italian early 19th century Louis XVI st. Giltwood, Gilt metal sconces
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Along each arm as well as the gilded band are tasteful decorations of prism cut Crystal pendants. These Crystal decorations lead upwards to the circular foliate designed candle cups...
Crystal, Metal
Pair of Italian Maria Theresa Style Beaded Sconces
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Pair of sconces, in Maria Theresa style, each having a frame of beaded gilded iron, three scrolling candlearms adorned with beading, terminating in scalloped glass bobeches, the enti...
Crystal, Iron
Pair of Russian Early 19th Century Neoclassical Style Three Arm Girandole Lamps
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Above each Girandole are beautiful ormolu sprays with superb prism cut crystal pendants. All original gilt throughout.
Crystal, Carrara Marble, Ormolu
Fine German Eight-Light Bronze Chandelier
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Chandelier, of gilt bronze, consisting of a finely chased ring suspended by shaped arms, finishing with leafy repousse cups holding eight lights in glass bobeches, the entire fixture...
Crystal, Bronze
French Louis XVI Style Bronze Three-Light Chandelier, Early 20th Century
Located in Barntrup, DE
This impressive and unusually shaped Louis XVI-style bronze chandelier, richly decorated with acanthus leaves, features three bronze arms, each with a socket for an E14 size light bu...
Crystal, Bronze
$29,958Sale Price / set|20% Off
V. Paillard & Baccarat, Pair of Wall-lights, France, circa 1870
By Victor Paillard, Cristalleries De Baccarat
Located in PARIS, FR
The eight twisted and foliated light-arms, ending in binets with gadroons and pearl friezes, are organized around a central shaft decorated with a profile portrait of a woman in a be...
Crystal, Bronze
$5,172Sale Price|35% Off
Chandelier "aux Têtes de Bélier" attr. to H. Vian, France, Circa 1890
By Henri Vian
Located in PARIS, FR
The beaded basins are adorned with a ram’s head, and the whole is decorated with cut crystal drops, diamonds and prisms. Biography Henri Vian, a bronze-caster active in the second h...
Crystal, Bronze
Unusual Ten-Light Gilded Iron Italian Chandelier, Early 20th Century
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Spectacular chandelier, having a cage-form frame of gilded iron, a handblown knopped glass spire sets inside the center, suspending ten S-scroll candle arms, each holding a scalloped...
Crystal, Iron
Antique French 19th Century Victorian Oil Lamp Chandelier Brass Opaline Hanging
Located in Ijzendijke, NL
The chandelier is made of brass, opaline glass shades, fake opaline glass candles & crystal glass prisms. Amazing attention to detail the arms, frame & chains are all highly decora...
Crystal, Brass
Swedish empire chandelier, early 19th c
Located in Östermalm, Stockholms län
The richly ornamented gilt-brass framework is lavishly hung with hand-cut crystal drops and spear prisms, creating a brilliant play of light and reflection.
Brass, Bronze
19th Century Belle Epoque Gilt Bronze Sconces, a Pair
Located in Bradenton, FL
Gilt bronze wall sconces, center female masque, raised foliate decoration, two arms, crystal drops and prisms. Later electrified.
Bronze
$1,069Sale Price / set|40% Off
Ornate Bronze Rococo Wall Sconce
Located in Van Nuys, CA
The light fixtures themselves feature prismed crystal pendants.
Brass
$20,000
Belle Epoque Chandelier
By Maison Baguès
Located in New York, NY
The botanical forms of the cage, and the shapes of the rock-crystal prisms, recall the Rococo style of the 18th century.
Rock Crystal, Bronze
French Green Flower Ball Crystal Prisms Maison Baguès Style Chandelier, 1920s
By Maison Baguès
Located in Firenze, Toscana
Will be newly rewired with certified US UL socket for the USA and appropriate socket for all other countries and ready to hang. Clear and green crystal prisms, made into flowers. Mur...
Crystal
The right table lamp, outwardly sculptural chandelier or understated wall pendant can work wonders for your home. While we’re indebted to thinkers like Thomas Edison for critically important advancements in lighting and electricity, we’re still finding new ways to customize illumination to fit our personal spaces all these years later. A wide range of antique and vintage lighting can be found on 1stDibs.
Today, lighting designers like the self-taught Bec Brittain have used the flexible structure of LEDs to craft glamorous solutions by working with what is typically considered a harsh lighting source. By integrating glass and mirrors, reflection can be used to soften the glow from LEDs and warmly welcome light into any space.
Although contemporary innovators continue to impress, some of the classics can’t be beat.
Just as gazing at the stars allows you to glimpse the universe’s past, vintage chandeliers like those designed by Gino Sarfatti and J. & L. Lobmeyr, for example, put on a similarly stunning show, each with a rich story to tell.
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There is no shortage of modernist lighting similarly prized by collectors and casual enthusiasts alike — there are Art Deco table lamps created in a universally appreciated style, the Tripod floor lamp by T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, Greta Magnusson Grossman's sleek and minimalist Grasshopper lamps and, of course, the wealth of mid-century experimental lighting that emerged from Italian artisans at Arredoluce, FLOS and many more are hallmarks in illumination innovation.
With decades of design evolution behind it, home lighting is no longer just practical. Crystalline shaping by designers like Gabriel Scott turns every lighting apparatus into a luxury accessory. A new installation doesn’t merely showcase a space; carefully chosen ceiling lights, table lamps and floor lamps can create a mood, spotlight a favorite piece or highlight your unique personality.
The sparkle that your space has been missing is waiting for you amid the growing collection of antique, vintage and contemporary lighting for sale on 1stDibs.
Designer Eva Menz wants the light to "evoke curiosity and a sense of wonder."
Working with resin, a tricky material, has created moments of failure — and enlightenment.
Commissioned for the lakeside villa of a Finnish industrialist, it illuminated visits with dignitaries.
Across New York, there’s no shortage of statement lighting on view.
The 1920s design is a thrilling combination of saturated colors, ancient motifs and modern aesthetics.
Designed by a giant of Swedish lighting, the large-scale fixtures bring major drama.
The alluring pendant light exemplifies the designer’s winsome mid-career work.
Before founding the Memphis Group, Sottsass bent the rules of lighting design with the wonderfully wavy Cometa.