Antique Square Table Lamp
Early 20th Century American Art Nouveau Antique Square Table Lamp
Bronze
Early 20th Century Dutch Art Deco Antique Square Table Lamp
Glass
19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Square Table Lamp
Ceramic, Porcelain
Early 20th Century Arts and Crafts Antique Square Table Lamp
Brass
Early 20th Century North American Arts and Crafts Antique Square Table Lamp
Copper
Early 20th Century Chinese Antique Square Table Lamp
Porcelain
Mid-19th Century American Antique Square Table Lamp
Marble, Brass
Early 1900s Austrian Vienna Secession Antique Square Table Lamp
Crystal
Mid-19th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Antique Square Table Lamp
Brass
Early 20th Century Antique Square Table Lamp
Metal
1920s French Antique Square Table Lamp
Glass
Late 19th Century French Neoclassical Antique Square Table Lamp
Marble, Brass, Bronze
Early 20th Century American Art Deco Antique Square Table Lamp
Mahogany, Maple
19th Century Victorian Antique Square Table Lamp
Mahogany
19th Century American Victorian Antique Square Table Lamp
Onyx, Marble, Brass
19th Century Chinese Chinese Chippendale Antique Square Table Lamp
Teak
Early 20th Century Antique Square Table Lamp
1910s Swedish Art Nouveau Antique Square Table Lamp
Spelter
19th Century Chinese Antique Square Table Lamp
Porcelain
19th Century English Antique Square Table Lamp
19th Century Chinese Antique Square Table Lamp
Ormolu
Early 1900s American Art Nouveau Antique Square Table Lamp
Bronze
Late 19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Square Table Lamp
Porcelain
19th Century Japanese Antique Square Table Lamp
Porcelain
19th Century English Antique Square Table Lamp
Early 20th Century French Antique Square Table Lamp
Crystal, Marble
Early 20th Century English Edwardian Antique Square Table Lamp
Brass
Early 20th Century European Edwardian Antique Square Table Lamp
Brass
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Square Table Lamp
Bronze
Late 19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Square Table Lamp
Marble, Bronze
19th Century Italian William IV Antique Square Table Lamp
Wood
19th Century Italian Empire Antique Square Table Lamp
Silver
Early 20th Century French Antique Square Table Lamp
Ceramic
Early 19th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Square Table Lamp
Silver Leaf
Early 1900s Italian Antique Square Table Lamp
Wood
1890s Antique Square Table Lamp
Brass
1920s English Antique Square Table Lamp
1890s Late Victorian Antique Square Table Lamp
Wood
19th Century English Antique Square Table Lamp
Mahogany
Late 19th Century Chinese Ming Antique Square Table Lamp
Elm
Late 19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Square Table Lamp
Late 19th Century Russian Victorian Antique Square Table Lamp
Birch
Late 19th Century Russian Empire Revival Antique Square Table Lamp
Birch
Early 20th Century Chinese Antique Square Table Lamp
Wood
Early 20th Century Art Deco Antique Square Table Lamp
19th Century English Primitive Antique Square Table Lamp
Oak
Early 20th Century British Colonial Antique Square Table Lamp
19th Century Japanese Antique Square Table Lamp
19th Century Chinese Antique Square Table Lamp
Enamel
19th Century Chinese Antique Square Table Lamp
Porcelain
Mid-19th Century Chinese Antique Square Table Lamp
18th Century and Earlier Chinese Antique Square Table Lamp
Metal
Late 19th Century British Antique Square Table Lamp
Early 20th Century European Antique Square Table Lamp
Bronze
1880s Italian Neoclassical Antique Square Table Lamp
Giltwood
Early 20th Century British Art Deco Antique Square Table Lamp
Chrome
19th Century Chinese Antique Square Table Lamp
Porcelain
19th Century Gothic Antique Square Table Lamp
Limestone
Early 1900s English Antique Square Table Lamp
Mahogany
Early 1900s English Chinese Chippendale Antique Square Table Lamp
Mahogany
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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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