Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
19th Century French Empire Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Bronze
19th Century English Victorian Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Ormolu
Late 19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Bronze
Mid-19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Bronze, Ormolu
Early 19th Century English Gothic Revival Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Ormolu
19th Century French Louis XV Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Brass
Mid-19th Century French Empire Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Ormolu
1830s French Charles X Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Bronze
19th Century French Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Ormolu
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Ormolu
1870s French Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Onyx, Ormolu
Early 20th Century Renaissance Revival Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Metal, Ormolu
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Marble, Ormolu
19th Century Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Porcelain
1880s French Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Ormolu
1870s French Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Ormolu
19th Century French Charles X Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Glass
19th Century Japanese Early Victorian Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Ormolu
1870s Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Ormolu
19th Century Japanese Late Victorian Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Ormolu
19th Century Chinese Late Victorian Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Ormolu
19th Century Chinese Late Victorian Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Ormolu
Early 20th Century Unknown Louis XV Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Porcelain
1870s French Renaissance Revival Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Ormolu
Late 19th Century French Rococo Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Ormolu
Late 19th Century Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Ormolu
Late 19th Century Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Ormolu
19th Century French Early Victorian Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Bronze, Ormolu
Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Ormolu
Late 19th Century European Napoleon III Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Ormolu, Bronze
Early 19th Century French Neoclassical Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Metal, Brass, Ormolu
Early 20th Century French Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Marble
Early 20th Century Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Ormolu
1860s Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Ormolu
19th Century Chinese Early Victorian Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Bronze, Ormolu
1870s French Neoclassical Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Marble, Ormolu
1880s English Victorian Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Onyx, Ormolu
Late 19th Century French Regency Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Brass, Ormolu
1880s French Victorian Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Ormolu
1890s English Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Brass, Bronze
Early 1900s French Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Onyx, Ormolu
19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Ormolu
19th Century French Renaissance Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Ormolu
19th Century French Late Victorian Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Ormolu
Mid-19th Century English Regency Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Ormolu
19th Century French Late Victorian Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Ormolu
19th Century French Renaissance Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Ormolu
19th Century American Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Marble, Ormolu
Mid-19th Century Unknown Victorian Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Brass, Ormolu
19th Century French Late Victorian Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Ormolu
19th Century French Late Victorian Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Ormolu
19th Century Empire Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Bronze, Ormolu
19th Century French Late Victorian Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Ormolu
Late 19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Bronze
Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Ormolu
19th Century French Late Victorian Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Ormolu
Late 19th Century Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
Early 20th Century French Empire Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Bronze, Ormolu
1890s French Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Marble
Late 19th Century French Mid-Century Modern Antique Ormolu Table Lamps
Brass, Bronze
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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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