Bronze Art Noveau Style Figural Mermaid Table Lamp with a Conch Shell Lamp Shade
By Tiffany Studios
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Excellent rendition of a Tiffany style lamp, bronze with a conch shell shade. Beautifully cast with a deep bronze patina. In cord switch with a dimmer. Truly a special lamp.
Bronze
Early 1900 Cameo Shell Lamp Greek Mythology Table Lamp
Located in Brescia, IT
Cameo Shell Lamp Early 1900 Italy "Three Graces" engraved Metal Base with three sphinxes Perfect working order Excellent Condiction
Metal
Wonderful Art Nouveau Nautilus Seashell Figural Vida Poche Table Lamp
Located in Roslyn, NY
A Wonderful Art Nouveau Nautilus Seashell Figural Vida Poche Table Lamp
Metal, Brass
Secessionist Bronze Mermaid Shell Lamp by Gustav Gurschner
By Gustave Gurschner
Located in Palm Beach, FL
GUSTAV GURSCHNER (Austrian, 1873-1970), a sculptor, attended the School of Applied Arts in Vienna in 1888. Working under several artists, his time in Paris in 1897 proved to be most ...
Brass, Wire
Vintage Tall Pastel Pink Art Deco Shell Motif Ceramic Table Lamp
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
It is tall and demands attention! It features an art nouveau or art deco style texture around the base which seems to also look like clam shells or leaves.
Ceramic
19th Century Shell Table Lamp with Flexible Neck
Located in Schöfflisdorf, CH
19th century shell table lamp with flexible neck.
Nickel
$1,356Sale Price|20% Off
Antique Tortoise Mother of Pearl Veneer Table Lamp, Original Finial
Located in Lomita, CA
This lamp is a wonderful example of the end of the art nouveau and start of the art deco period with its curved elliptical design and organic palette.
Tortoise Shell
Unavailable
H 24 in W 11.5 in D 5 in
Mysterious Art Nouveau Bronze Dragonesque Panther Lamp with Nautilus Shell Shade
Located in Mount Penn, PA
Ethereal sensuous design bronze descending dragonesque panther on stylized tree lamp. Done in the 1900s-1920s this period Art Nouveau lamp is a beautiful night light that can be an a...
Bronze
French Art Nouveau Lamp
Located in Newport Beach, CA
An unusual brass floriform lamp base with three original shell shades. A great accent lamp with sinuous profile. The base cast, with the shade attachments hand hammered. The only m...
Brass
Unavailable
H 23.63 in W 11.82 in D 11.82 in
21st Century Oyster Shell Lamp by Busra Ozdemir - Modern, Ceramic
By Yugu Atelier
Located in ISTANBUL, TR
The Oyster Shell Lamp is an iconic design that brings the mesmerizing elegance of the sea into your living spaces. Crafted meticulously from ceramic, this lighting piece draws inspir...
Ceramic
Unavailable
H 18.25 in Dm 3.75 in
French Trench Art First World War Two Carved Brass Shells One Oil Lamp, One Vase
Located in Petaluma, CA
It is a stunning work of art and in very good condition. The other piece of trench art is a vase with a beautiful Art Nouveau design with flowers and a detailed background.
Brass
Art Nouveau Period Bronze and Shell Lamp
By G. None
Located in Bronx, NY
The ensemble is a stunning vintage example of Art Nouveau period lighting. The lamp is in excellent physical and working condition.
Shell
Art Nouveau Gilt Bronze and Shell Table Lamp, circa 1900
Located in Petaluma, CA
This has to be one of the best lamps we have in the shop currently. We are always looking for nautilus shell lamps, and oddly as rare as they come up for sale, the metal work is almo...
Marble, Bronze
Leaded Seashell Lamp Art Nouveau Metal Base and Detailed Mosaic Shell Shade
Located in Great Barrington, MA
This Art Nouveau stylized lamp has a patinated metal base with beautifully constructed shell lamp shade, each shell mounted with leading in a mosaic motif.
Lead
Art Nouveau Style Mixed Metal Figural Table Lamp
Located in Astoria, NY
Art Nouveau style figural table lamp, in the manner of Lucien Charles Edouard Alliot (French, 1877-1967), modeled under a shell form tree and standing on a mound, inscribed to base "...
Marble, Metal
American Art Nouveau "Gudebrod" Nautilus Desk Lamp by, Tiffany Studios
By Tiffany Studios, Louis Gudebrod
Located in Englewood, NJ
An extremely fine and very rare American Art Nouveau patinated bronze Tiffany Studios “Nautilus” desk lamp designed by, Louis Gudebrod and produced exclusively by Tiffany studios of ...
Bronze
Very Early Original Brass Shell Table Lamp
Located in Vlimmeren, BE
This brass desk lamp with flexible column is terminating in shell-shaped shade. It is an old piece with a porcelain socket and switch. The lamp is in good original condition.
Brass
Art Nouveau Veilleuse Formed as Fisher Girl
Located in Montreal, QC
Gilt and patinated bronze figure of girl catching a fish, under a seashell forming shade upheld by seagrasses, raised by marble base on serpentine gilt feet; forming a veilleuse.
Marble, Bronze
Monumental Organic Faux Shell Surrealist Table Lamp..Rougier France
Located in Buffalo, NY
Unusual Mid Century Surrealist Table lamp,,1960s vintage, Faux Seashell,, polyresin.and brass.. Elegant design,, will make a statement in any environment.Made by Rougier
Brass
Signed Chapman Brass Shell Table Desk Lamp in Style of Antonio Gaudi
By Chapman Manufacturing Company
Located in West Hartford, CT
Rare Antonio Gaudi style lamp by Chapman features faux brass shell shade and bronze base with bendable neck. All Chapman hallmarks are present.
Brass, Bronze
Tiffany Studios "Nautilus" Desk Lamp
By Tiffany Studios
Located in New York, NY
Provenance: Collection of Sir Elton John, Sotheby's London. Elton John Volume III Art Nouveau and Art Deco Wednesday 7 September 1988, lot 601, Private Collection purchased from abov...
Bronze
Tiffany Studios "Nautilus" Desk Lamp
By Tiffany Studios
Located in New York, NY
A Tiffany Studios New York “Nautilus” table lamp with a silver-lined nautilus shade suspended within a gilt bronze figural base. The base is in the shape of a mermaid with outstretch...
Bronze
Vintage Art Nouveau Style Clam Shell and Pearl Table Lamp
Located in Bellport, NY
In the Art Nouveau style a beautiful penalized glass shade nested in a well formed composition clam shell, a rare find. Good ambiance or night light use.
Composition
Sold
H 9.25 in W 8 in D 3.5 in
Antique Art Nouveau Tiffany Studios Nautical Seashell & Bronze Lamp, c 1920
By Tiffany Studios
Located in Big Flats, NY
An antique figural ARt Nouveau table or desk lamp by Tiffany Studios offers Nautilus shell shade surmounting cast bronze base with seahorses in the rolling ocean waves, stamped "Tiff...
Bronze
Sold
H 37.4 in Dm 14.2 in
Art Nouveau Central Pendant Lamp Whit Three Clam Shells and Framework of Brass
Located in Verviers, BE
Three clam shells suspended between fronds of seaweed. The shade is cast in pink opaque glass enhancing the shadow of the shell’s texture, and they are held in naturalistic framewor...
Brass
Art Nouveau Shell Lamp
Located in Bronx, NY
A vintage period lamp designed with a South Seas conch shell mounted atop a stylish art nouveau dore' lamp base with an extended arm.
Bronze
Sold
H 11.42 in W 20.48 in D 7.88 in
Roberto Michetti Art Nouveau Shell Shaped Embossed Silver Italian Lamp, 1910s
By Roberto Michetti
Located in Florence, IT
Silver shell shaped Lamp realized from the Italian silversmith Roberto Michetti of Bologna, circa 1910. Hand embossed and engraved to create two realistic counterposed shells, with ...
Silver
Rare Pair of Art Nouveau Table Lamps
By Rudolf Marschall
Located in Vienna, AT
These original lamps from Vienna show the influence of the art nouveau stye at the turn of the century.
Bronze
1920s Bronze and Green Onyx Candlestick Lamp with Capiz Shell Shade
Located in Richmond, VA
Offered is a beautiful, 1920s bronze and green onyx candlestick lamp with a stunning tiled capiz shell lampshade. Crystal ball finial included. Clawfoot design on all four feet. Rewi...
Onyx, Brass, Bronze
1920s Bronze and Green Onyx Candlestick Lamp with Capiz Shell Shade
Located in Richmond, VA
Offered is a beautiful, 1920s bronze and green onyx candlestick lamp with a stunning tiled capiz shell lampshade. Crystal ball finial included. Clawfoot design on all four feet. Rewi...
Onyx, Brass, Bronze
Art Nouveau Shell Lamp
Located in Bronx, NY
This bronze art nouveau lamp is designed with a stylized base that celebrates the movement.
Bronze
Art Nouveau Mermaid Lamp with Nautilus Shell Shade
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Fashioned as a mermaid in the Classic nouveau stylized manner, and cast in bronze with a rich patina. The nautilus shell shade is original and unscathed.
Bronze
Brass Desk Table Lamp Shell , Art Nouveau, Art Deco
Located in Mombuey, Zamora
Desk shell Flexo lamp, early 20th century Art Nouveau, Art Deco.
Brass
Pair of Art Nouveau Nautilus Shell Wall Lights, Early 20th Century
Located in Noorderwijk, BE
The style is quintessentially Art Nouveau. The design of the base is a joining together of long sinuous lines that weave themselves like branches around the outer side of the shells.
Brass Shell Table Desk Lamp France 1970s
Located in Ettlingen, Baden-Wurttemberg
An elegant Art Nouveau revival brass desk lamp with a flexible column and a turnable shell-shaped shade.
Brass, Copper
Tiffany Studios Bronze Nautilus Table Lamp
By Tiffany Studios, Louis Comfort Tiffany
Located in Salt Lake City, UT
Signed on base and numbered D797. Dimensions: 13" x 8".
Bronze
On Hold|$7,808
H 4.75 in W 11 in D 3.88 in
Fine Antique French Malachite and Bronze Jewelry Box, c.1890
Located in Bath, GB
A truly fabulous late nineteenth century jewelry box made from a fine example of malachite, the first image is the most true colour in person. The Malachite during this era was ag...
Malachite, Bronze
Art Nouveau Perfume Bottle with Ornate Sterling Overlay c. 1890's
Located in Louisville, KY
This beautiful piece of functional art is a gorgeous reflection of the Art Nouveau era from which it came. Used primarily as a perfume bottle, this stunning work of art was created b...
Sterling Silver
Antique Art Nouveau 8-Lobed Glass Perfume Bottle with Silver Overlay c.1895
Located in Louisville, KY
This stunningly designed Art Nouveau piece is nothing short of spectacular and is comprised of sterling silver overlay that wraps a hand blown 8-lobed glass bottle, used for perfumes...
Sterling Silver
$1,499Sale Price / set|25% Off
H 7.09 in W 3.75 in D 5.12 in
Silvered Bronze Bookends Sculptures of a Mermaid and Merman, France, 1900
By Jean Garnier
Located in Buenos Aires, Olivos
Silvered bronze bookends sculptures of a Mermaid and Merman, France, 1900. This enchanting bronze sculpture is the object of many sailors dreams. Silvered bronze sculptures of a merm...
Bronze
$3,900Sale Price|40% Off
H 18 in Dm 10 in
Austrian Art Nouveau Table Lamp w/ Original Hand Blown Iridescent Glass Shade
By Loetz Glass
Located in Petaluma, CA
A fine example of Art Nouveau lighting. The bronze base is richly patinated and beautifully cast with an art nouveau design. The shade is a deep green when lit and purple and green w...
Bronze
Art Nouveau Conifer Clock by Joself Kratina
By Josef Kratnia
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Czech artist Josef Kratina lived in Paris for several years and was a student of Auguste Rodin. He lived in New York from around 1907 onwards. Note: We highly recommend shipping thr...
Brass
$42,500 / set
H 34.25 in W 24 in D 23 in
Four Louis XV Style Gilt-Wood Chinoiserie Bergères, Jansen Attr., 1890
By Maison Jansen
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A Fine and Rare Assembled Set of Four French Louis XV Style Gilt-Wood Carved and Japanned-Chinoiserie Lacquer Decorated Bergers Armchairs, attributed to Maison Jansen (House of Janse...
Velvet, Giltwood, Lacquer
$9,850
H 20 in W 16 in D 12 in
A 1930's French Gilt Lacquered Wood Pagoda Form Chinoiserie Platinum Painted Box
By Maison Jansen
Located in New York, NY
A 1930's French Gilt Lacquered Wood Pagoda Form Chinoiserie Platinum Painted Box, Attributed to Jansen. At first glance, the box's visual allure is simply breathtaking. Adorned with ...
Wood
$3,500
H 8 in W 11.5 in D 3.25 in
Antique Franz Bergman Bruno Zach Cold Painted Bronze Peacock with Fanned Train
By Franz Bergmann, Bruno Zach
Located in Cincinnati, OH
This fabulous bronze peacock was made at Franz Bergman's Vienna foundry and bears the name of sculptor Bruno Zach. The highly detailed sculpture is beautifully cast and features col...
Bronze
$2,000Sale Price / set|20% Off
H 24 in Dm 17 in
Art Nouveau Tiffany Style Brown & Green Stained Glass Table Lamp, a Pair
By Tiffany Studios
Located in Plainview, NY
Art Nouveau Tiffany Style Brown & Green Stained Glass Table Lamp, a Pair : This captivating pair of Art Nouveau Tiffany-style table lamps is a masterful tribute to the elegance ...
Bronze
$1,917Sale Price|25% Off
H 8.27 in Dm 2.76 in
Authentic Émile Gallé Art Nouveau Vase with Wisteria Motif, circa 1910
By Émile Gallé
Located in Bochum, NRW
An exquisite authentic vase by Émile Gallé, master of French Art Nouveau glass. Circa 1910. Dimensions: Height 21 cm × Diameter 8 cm. This piece showcases a delicate interplay of pur...
Glass
Art Nouveau Style Wicker Settee / Tete-a-Tete in Natural Finish
By Wakefield Rattan Company
Located in Nashua, NH
A rare early wicker settee also known as a Tete-Tete that is attributed to the Wakefield Rattan Company of Wakefield, Massachusetts. It was designed in the late 19th C. and is done i...
Wicker, Cane, Reed, Wood
$5,500
H 10.5 in W 8 in D 5 in
Loetz For Boudon And Klur Ruby Papillon Glass And Gilt Metal Mounted Vase
By Loetz Glass
Located in Dallas, TX
Loetz For Boudon And Klur Gilt Metal Monted Glass Vase. A highly sought after vase culminating the zenith of Loetz and the Art Nouveau design. Czech Republic Circa 1900 Rubin Ruby P...
Metal
Spectral Seed Iridescent Art Nouveau Bowl by Clement Massier
By Clement Massier
Located in Palm Beach, FL
An encounter with Massier’s luster-glazed ceramics is an embarkation on an acid-colored trip, the sort of exploration which inspires deep reflection and requires transparency. Clemen...
Earthenware
Art Nouveau WMF Maiden Mirror, circa 1906, Germany
By WMF Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Art Nouveau WMF Mirror, circa 1906, Germany, silver plated, pattern number 108a. Original beveled glass mirror and wood back, the frame decorated with openwork foliage and a reclinin...
Silver Plate
Allegory of Abundance
Located in New York, NY
Painted in collaboration with Hendrick van Balen (Antwerp, 1575 – 1632). Provenance: Private Collection, Uruguay, since the 1930s. The eldest son of Jan Breughel the Elder, Jan the...
Copper
In its sinuous lines and flamboyant curves inspired by the natural world, antique Art Nouveau furniture reflects a desire for freedom from the stuffy social and artistic strictures of the Victorian era. The Art Nouveau movement developed in the decorative arts in France and Britain in the early 1880s and quickly became a dominant aesthetic style in Western Europe and the United States.
ORIGINS OF ART NOUVEAU FURNITURE DESIGN
CHARACTERISTICS OF ART NOUVEAU FURNITURE DESIGN
ART NOUVEAU FURNITURE DESIGNERS TO KNOW
ANTIQUE ART NOUVEAU FURNITURE ON 1STDIBS
Art Nouveau — which spanned furniture, architecture, jewelry and graphic design — can be easily identified by its lush, flowing forms suggested by flowers and plants, as well as the lissome tendrils of sea life. Although Art Deco and Art Nouveau were both in the forefront of turn-of-the-20th-century design, they are very different styles — Art Deco is marked by bold, geometric shapes while Art Nouveau incorporates dreamlike, floral motifs. The latter’s signature motif is the "whiplash" curve — a deep, narrow, dynamic parabola that appears as an element in everything from chair arms to cabinetry and mirror frames.
The visual vocabulary of Art Nouveau was particularly influenced by the soft colors and abstract images of nature seen in Japanese art prints, which arrived in large numbers in the West after open trade was forced upon Japan in the 1860s. Impressionist artists were moved by the artistic tradition of Japanese woodblock printmaking, and Japonisme — a term used to describe the appetite for Japanese art and culture in Europe at the time — greatly informed Art Nouveau.
The Art Nouveau style quickly reached a wide audience in Europe via advertising posters, book covers, illustrations and other work by such artists as Aubrey Beardsley, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Alphonse Mucha. While all Art Nouveau designs share common formal elements, different countries and regions produced their own variants.
In Scotland, the architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh developed a singular, restrained look based on scale rather than ornament; a style best known from his narrow chairs with exceedingly tall backs, designed for Glasgow tea rooms. Meanwhile in France, Hector Guimard — whose iconic 1896 entry arches for the Paris Metro are still in use — and Louis Majorelle produced chairs, desks, bed frames and cabinets with sweeping lines and rich veneers.
The Art Nouveau movement was known as Jugendstil ("Youth Style") in Germany, and in Austria the designers of the Vienna Secession group — notably Koloman Moser, Josef Hoffmann and Joseph Maria Olbrich — produced a relatively austere iteration of the Art Nouveau style, which mixed curving and geometric elements.
Art Nouveau revitalized all of the applied arts. Ceramists such as Ernest Chaplet and Edmond Lachenal created new forms covered in novel and rediscovered glazes that produced thick, foam-like finishes. Bold vases, bowls and lighting designs in acid-etched and marquetry cameo glass by Émile Gallé and the Daum Freres appeared in France, while in New York the glass workshop-cum-laboratory of Louis Comfort Tiffany — the core of what eventually became a multimedia decorative-arts manufactory called Tiffany Studios — brought out buoyant pieces in opalescent favrile glass.
Jewelry design was revolutionized, as settings, for the first time, were emphasized as much as, or more than, gemstones. A favorite Art Nouveau jewelry motif was insects (think of Tiffany, in his famed Dragonflies glass lampshade).
Like a mayfly, Art Nouveau was short-lived. The sensuous, languorous style fell out of favor early in the 20th century, deemed perhaps too light and insubstantial for European tastes in the aftermath of World War I. But as the designs on 1stDibs demonstrate, Art Nouveau retains its power to fascinate and seduce.
There are ways to tastefully integrate a touch of Art Nouveau into even the most modern interior — browse an extraordinary collection of original antique Art Nouveau furniture on 1stDibs, which includes decorative objects, seating, tables, garden elements and more.
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.