Antique Oriental Table Lamps
Late 19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Oriental Table Lamps
Porcelain, Teak
Early 19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Oriental Table Lamps
18th Century and Earlier Chinese Antique Oriental Table Lamps
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Oriental Table Lamps
Early 20th Century Antique Oriental Table Lamps
19th Century French Antique Oriental Table Lamps
Porcelain, Plexiglass, Paint
Late 19th Century French Antique Oriental Table Lamps
Enamel, Ormolu
19th Century Japanese Antique Oriental Table Lamps
Ormolu
1880s Antique Oriental Table Lamps
Porcelain
Early 1900s Chinese Chinese Export Antique Oriental Table Lamps
Porcelain, Fabric, Wood
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Oriental Table Lamps
Celadon
Late 19th Century French Antique Oriental Table Lamps
Porcelain, Wood
1910s English Chinoiserie Antique Oriental Table Lamps
Wood
1920s Chinoiserie Antique Oriental Table Lamps
Porcelain
1880s British Antique Oriental Table Lamps
Brass
Early 20th Century American Art Deco Antique Oriental Table Lamps
Chrome
19th Century Japanese Antique Oriental Table Lamps
Bronze
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Oriental Table Lamps
Brass, Bronze
1760s French Chinese Export Antique Oriental Table Lamps
Porcelain
Mid-19th Century Dutch Antique Oriental Table Lamps
Brass
Early 20th Century Austrian Rustic Antique Oriental Table Lamps
Bronze
1910s Japanese Antique Oriental Table Lamps
Brass, Enamel
Early 20th Century Chinese Antique Oriental Table Lamps
Porcelain
Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Oriental Table Lamps
Porcelain
Early 20th Century Irish Chinese Export Antique Oriental Table Lamps
Ceramic
19th Century Japanese Antique Oriental Table Lamps
Porcelain
Late 19th Century French Japonisme Antique Oriental Table Lamps
Enamel, Ormolu
18th Century Chinese Antique Oriental Table Lamps
Porcelain
19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Oriental Table Lamps
Ormolu
1920s Chinese Chinese Export Antique Oriental Table Lamps
Porcelain
19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Oriental Table Lamps
Porcelain
19th Century Chinese Antique Oriental Table Lamps
Ormolu
19th Century French Chinese Export Antique Oriental Table Lamps
Porcelain
Late 19th Century French Chinese Export Antique Oriental Table Lamps
Porcelain
19th Century Chinese Antique Oriental Table Lamps
Bronze, Enamel
Early 20th Century Antique Oriental Table Lamps
Bronze
19th Century Chinese Antique Oriental Table Lamps
Ormolu
19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Oriental Table Lamps
Porcelain
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Oriental Table Lamps
Porcelain
19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Oriental Table Lamps
Porcelain
Late 17th Century Dutch Chinoiserie Antique Oriental Table Lamps
Faience
Late 19th Century French Chinese Export Antique Oriental Table Lamps
Porcelain
Early 20th Century Austrian Moorish Antique Oriental Table Lamps
Spelter, Bronze
1880s French Japonisme Antique Oriental Table Lamps
Bronze
1870s French Japonisme Antique Oriental Table Lamps
Bronze
19th Century Austrian Moorish Antique Oriental Table Lamps
Bronze
Late 19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Oriental Table Lamps
Ormolu
1910s Austrian Edwardian Antique Oriental Table Lamps
Bronze
Late 19th Century French Chinoiserie Antique Oriental Table Lamps
Bronze
19th Century English Regency Antique Oriental Table Lamps
Lacquer
Early 1900s Japanese Edwardian Antique Oriental Table Lamps
Hardwood
Late 19th Century British Late Victorian Antique Oriental Table Lamps
Ceramic, Bamboo
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Antique Oriental Table Lamps
Wood
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Antique Oriental Table Lamps
Wood
1910s Modern Antique Oriental Table Lamps
Photographic Paper
Early 20th Century Art Deco Antique Oriental Table Lamps
Bronze
Early 20th Century Art Deco Antique Oriental Table Lamps
Slag Glass
19th Century French Antique Oriental Table Lamps
Porcelain
Early 20th Century Antique Oriental Table Lamps
Wicker
19th Century Chinese Antique Oriental Table Lamps
Porcelain
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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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