$6,677 / item
Linetype Wall Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Linetype Wall Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 2.5 x W 20 x H 144 cm.
Brass
$2,485 / item
Octopus Floor Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Octopus Floor Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 39 x H 118.5 cm. Materials: Powder-coated metal, white glass.
Metal
$2,324 / item
Octopus Floor Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Octopus Floor Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 39 x H 118.5 cm. Materials: Powder-coated metal, white glass.
Metal
$1,088 / item
Octopus Desk Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Octopus Desk Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 22.8 x H 39 cm. Materials: Powder-coated metal, white glass.
Metal
$1,088 / item
Octopus Desk Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Octopus Desk Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 22.8 x H 39 cm. Materials: Powder-coated metal, white glass.
Metal
$5,966 / item
Sticks Pendant Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Sticks Pendant Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 21 x W 21 x H 161.5 cm.
Brass
$8,967 / item
Tubes Floor Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Tubes Floor Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 28 x W 30 x H 143.5 cm.
Metal
$9,941 / item
Linetype Floor Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Linetype Floor Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 20 x H 156.5 cm. Materials: Brushed brass, white acrylic, white glass.
Brass
$2,336 / item
Zigzag Wall Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Zigzag Wall Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 12 x W 27 x H 51 cm. Materials: Brushed brass, white glass.
Brass
$4,363 / item
Linetype Desk Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Linetype Desk Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 15 x W 48 x H 48 cm. Materials: Brushed brass, white acrylic.
Brass
$2,542 / item
Harlequin Floor Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Harlequin Floor Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 16 x H 155 cm. Materials: Powder-coated metal; white glass.
Metal
$1,546 / item
Birch Wall Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Birch Wall Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 9 x W 12 x H 33 cm. Materials: Black powder-coated metal, white glass.
Metal
$1,546 / item
Birch Wall Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Birch Wall Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 9 x W 12 x H 33 cm. Materials: White powder-coated metal, white glass.
Metal
$3,298 / item
Rotation Wall Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Rotation Wall Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 14.5 x W 12 x H 50 cm.
Metal
$4,833 / item
Rotation Floor Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Rotation Floor Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 30 x W 30 x H 184 cm.
Metal
$7,650 / item
Rotation Ceiling Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Rotation Ceiling Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 12 x W 33.2 x H 48.5 cm.
Metal
$7,650 / item
Rotation Ceiling Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Rotation Ceiling Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 12 x W 33.2 x H 48.5 cm.
Metal
$4,833 / item
Rotation Floor Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Rotation Floor Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 30 x W 30 x H 184 cm.
Metal
$3,298 / item
Rotation Wall Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Rotation Wall Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 14.5 x W 12 x H 50 cm.
Metal
$3,493 / item
Perspective Pendant Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Perspective Pendant Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 32 x W 32 x H 124 cm.
Brass
$2,783 / item
Perspective Ceiling Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Perspective Ceiling Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 30 x W 86 x H 35 cm. Materials: Brushed brass, white glass.
Brass
$2,130 / item
Silver Floor Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Silver Floor Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 20.5 x H 163 cm. Materials: Black powder-coated metal.
Metal
$1,397 / item
Silver Desk Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Silver Desk Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 20.5 x H 51.2 cm. Materials: Black powder-coated metal.
Metal
$4,501 / item
Column Floor Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Column Floor Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 40 x W 40 x H 173.5 cm.
Metal, Brass
$1,695 / item
Column Desk Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Column Desk Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 20 x W 20 x H 43 cm. Materials: Brushed brass, powder-coated metal, white glass.
Metal, Brass
$1,225 / item
Plates Pendant Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Plates Pendant Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 15 x W 30.5 x H 93 cm.
Metal, Brass
$1,362 / item
Double Pendant Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Double Pendant Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 16 x W 32 x H 53 cm. Materials: Powder-coated metal.
Metal
$652 / item
Row Wall Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Row Wall Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 15 x W 10 x H 26 cm. Materials: Powder-coated metal, white glass.
Metal
$652 / item
Row Wall Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Row Wall Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 15 x W 10 x H 26 cm. Materials: Powder-coated metal, white glass.
Metal
$3,229 / item
Deux Floor Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Deux Floor Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 54 x W 54 x H 158.5 cm.
Metal, Brass
$3,229 / item
Deux Floor Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Deux Floor Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 54 x W 54 x H 158.5 cm.
Metal, Brass
$5,268 / item
Bonhomme Floor Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Bonhomme Floor Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 27 x W 53.7 x H 171 cm.
Metal
$1,019 / item
Ilios Wall Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Ilios Wall Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 17.6 x W 16 x H 25.6 cm.
Metal, Brass
$3,516 / item
Steps Floor Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Step Floor Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 13 x W 15 x H 150 cm.
Metal
$4,340 / item
Bonhomme Floor Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Bonhomme Floor Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 27 x W 53.7 x H 171 cm.
Metal
$4,340 / item
Bonhomme Floor Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Bonhomme Floor Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 27 x W 53.7 x H 171 cm.
Metal
$1,202 / item
Twin Desk Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Twin Desk Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 15 x W 15 x H 60.5 cm.
Metal, Brass
$1,259 / item
Alouette Wall Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Alouette Wall Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 19.5 x W 19.7 x H 20.7 cm.
Metal
$2,805 / item
Alouette Desk Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Alouette Desk Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 22 x W 22 x H 45 cm. Materials: Powder-coated metal.
Metal
$1,431 / item
Alouette Desk Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Alouette Desk Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 22 x W 22 x H 45 cm. Materials: Powder-coated metal.
Metal
$1,431 / item
Alouette Desk Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Alouette Desk Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 22 x W 22 x H 45 cm. Materials: Powder-coated metal.
Metal
$2,805 / item
Alouette Desk Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Alouette Desk Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 22 x W 22 x H 45 cm. Materials: Powder-coated metal.
Metal
$3,664 / item
Birch Floor Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Birch Floor Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 25.5 x H 193 cm. Materials: White powder-coated metal, white glass.
Metal
$3,664 / item
Birch Floor Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Birch Floor Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 25.5 x H 193 cm. Materials: Black powder-coated metal, white glass.
Metal
$1,225 / item
Ilios Pendant Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Ilios Pendant Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 16 x W 25.6 x H 150 cm.
Metal, Brass
$3,098 / item
Down Pendant Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Down Pendant Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 40 x W 40 x H 150 cm.
Metal, Brass
$5,096 / item
Mimosa Pendant Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Mimosa Pendant Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 16 x W 126.4 x H 50 cm.
Metal
$5,554 / item
Mimosa Pendant Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Mimosa Pendant Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 16 x W 126.4 x H 50 cm.
Metal
$1,695 / item
Green Asymptote Pendant Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Green Asymptote Pendant Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 15 x H 74.2 cm. Materials: Powder-coated metal.
Metal
$3,035 / item
Blue Asymptote Floor Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Blue Asymptote Floor Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 22 x H 170 cm. Materials: Powder-coated metal.
Metal
$2,428 / item
Blue Profiles Pendant Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Blue Profiles Pendant Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 13.5 x H 67.5 cm. Materials: Powder-coated metal, white glass.
Metal
$2,428 / item
Sand Profiles Pendant Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Sand Profiles Pendant Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 13.5 x H 67.5 cm. Materials: Powder-coated metal, white glass.
Metal
$2,428 / item
Red Profiles Pendant Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Red Profiles Pendant Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 13.5 x H 67.5 cm. Materials: Powder-coated metal, white glass.
Metal
$2,428 / item
Pink Profiles Pendant Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Pink Profiles Pendant Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 13.5 x H 67.5 cm. Materials: Powder-coated metal, white glass.
Metal
$2,428 / item
White Profiles Pendant Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
White Profiles Pendant Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 13.5 x H 67.5 cm. Materials: Powder-coated metal, white glass.
Metal
$2,423 / item
Black Profiles Pendant Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Black Profiles Pendant Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 13.5 x H 67.5 cm. Materials: Powder-coated metal, white glass.
Metal
$3,962 / item
White Profiles Floor Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
White Profiles Floor Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 20 x H 159 cm. Materials: Powder-coated metal.
Metal
$3,962 / item
Sand Profiles Floor Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Sand Profiles Floor Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 20 x H 159 cm. Materials: Powder-coated metal.
Metal
$3,962 / item
Red Profiles Floor Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Red Profiles Floor Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 20 x H 159 cm. Materials: Powder-coated metal.
Metal
$3,962 / item
Pink Profiles Floor Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Pink Profiles Floor Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 20 x H 159 cm. Materials: Powder-coated metal.
Metal
Dalu Table Lamp by Vico Magistretti for Artemide
By Artemide, Vico Magistretti
Located in London, GB
This rare table lamp was designed by Vico Magistretti for the Italian manufacture Artemide during the 1960s, it is one of 2 that we currently have in stock. The lamp is made from one...
Plastic
Floor Lamp by Stilnovo
By Stilnovo
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Floor Lamp by Stilnovo. Manufactured in Italy, circa 1950s. Brushed satin glass diffuser, enameled metal, brass. Original European cord. We recommend one E27 75w maximum bulb. Bulb p...
Metal, Aluminum, Brass
"Clitunno" Floor Lmap by Vico Magistretti for Artemide
By Vico Magistretti, Artemide
Located in Milan, IT
"Clitunno" floor lamp by Vico Magistretti for Artemide. Nickel plated brass frame and two opaline glass shades.
Nickel
$4,065 / item
H 64.97 in W 9.85 in D 9.85 in
Contemporary Floor Lamp "Big Madame Swo" by Oma Light Design, Barcelona
By Oma Light Design
Located in Girona, Girona
“Big Madame Swo” is a trip to Thailand. From the train, the image of these women with large straw hats, shielding themselves from the sun in the middle of huge rice fields ... The...
Brass, Iron
Alata floor lamp produced by Pallucco in the late 1990s.
By Pallucco
Located in Ravenna, IT
Alata floor lamp produced by Pallucco in the late 1990s. Its painted steel frame rests on three feet evoking a feeling of lightness and elegance. The peculiar shape of the diffuser f...
Steel
$1,489 / item
H 59.06 in W 3.31 in D 2.8 in
DCW Editions Org Wall Lamp 1500 in Aluminium and Glass by Sebastian Summa
Located in Brooklyn, NY
DCW Editions Org Wall Lamp 1500 in Aluminium and Glass by Sebastian Summa Elegant, surprisingly classic, the Org lamp goes from rough to sophisticated environment. Sebastian, b...
Aluminum
$3,600
H 64.77 in W 27.96 in D 16.15 in
Tentacle Lamp, Contemporary Design, Limited Edition, Made in Canada
By Ryan Mercer
Located in Paris, IDF
The Tentacle Floor Lamp is a sculptural lighting piece that explores the expressive movement of organic forms through the lens of contemporary collectible design. Inspired by the flu...
Resin
Italian ‘Polifemo’ Floor Lamp by Carlo Forcolini for Artemide
By Carlo Forcolini
Located in Chicago, IL
The ‘Polifemo’ floor lamp was designed by Carlo Forcolini for Artemide in the 1980s. Defined by its graphic silhouette, the design pairs a black metal base and stem with an ivory-ena...
Metal, Enamel
Small Org Wall Lamp by Sebastian Summa
Located in Geneve, CH
Small Org wall lamp by Sebastian Summa Dimensions: D 7.3 x W 8.5 x H 105cm Materials: aluminum, opaline glass Available in 2 sizes: 105cm, 150cm. All our lamps can be wired acc...
Aluminum
Large Org Wall Lamp by Sebastian Summa
Located in Geneve, CH
Large org wall lamp by Sebastian Summa Dimensions: D 7.3 x W 8.5 x H 150 cm Materials: aluminum, opaline glass Available in 2 sizes: 105 cm, 150 cm. All our lamps can be wired ...
Aluminum
OZEN VETRO wall lamp by Davide Groppi
By Davide Groppi
Located in Brooklyn, NY
A tool to light. The luminaire is pure form, a simple container for the light source. Max 48W - G9 120V - 60Hz Bulb not included ON/OFF DIMENSIONS: 1.97"W x 4.33"H x 10.2"D
Metal
$1,960 / item
H 78.75 in W 22.45 in D 20.87 in
Miniforms RIFICOLONA Floor Lamp in recycled material by E-ggs
By E-GGS, Miniforms
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The Rificolona Floor Lamp by Miniforms exemplifies the fusion of innovative design and sustainability through its playful and creative nature. The Rificolona Floor Lamp is an embodi...
Plastic
Alien Lamp by Siup Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Alien lamp by Siup Studio. Dimensions: D21 x W21 x H45cm Materials: glass and ceramics. All our lamps can be wired according to each country. If sold to the USA it will be wired for...
Ceramic, Glass
$15,117 / item
H 21.66 in W 14.57 in D 14.57 in
Spider, Floor Lamp Sculpture, Vincent Darré and Ludovic Clément D’armont
By Ludovic Clément d’Armont
Located in Geneve, CH
Spider, floor lamp sculpture, Vincent Darré and Ludovic Clément d’Armont Blown glass, textile, brass Dimensions: 55 x 37 x 37 cm. Created in cooperation with designer Vincent Da...
Brass
Unique Laser II Wall Lamp by Hatsu
Located in Geneve, CH
Unique laser II wall lamp by Hatsu Dimensions: W 10 x H 150 cm Materials: Aluminum Hatsu is a design studio based in Mumbai that creates modern lighting that are unique and imm...
Aluminum
Culbuto Floor Lamp Designed by "Piks Design" for Steiner, Paris
Located in Beirut, LB
The aesthetic of equilibrium, the aptly named Culbuto lights play with the idea of equilibrium. Designed by a young french agency "picks design," the model give a very pure white li...
Wood
Postmodern design was a short-lived movement that manifested itself chiefly in Italy and the United States in the early 1980s. The characteristics of vintage postmodern furniture and other postmodern objects and decor for the home included loud-patterned, usually plastic surfaces; strange proportions, vibrant colors and weird angles; and a vague-at-best relationship between form and function.
ORIGINS OF POSTMODERN FURNITURE DESIGN
CHARACTERISTICS OF POSTMODERN FURNITURE DESIGN
POSTMODERN FURNITURE DESIGNERS TO KNOW
VINTAGE POSTMODERN FURNITURE ON 1STDIBS
Critics derided postmodern design as a grandstanding bid for attention and nothing of consequence. Decades later, the fact that postmodernism still has the power to provoke thoughts, along with other reactions, proves they were not entirely correct.
Postmodern design began as an architectural critique. Starting in the 1960s, a small cadre of mainly American architects began to argue that modernism, once high-minded and even noble in its goals, had become stale, stagnant and blandly corporate. Later, in Milan, a cohort of creators led by Ettore Sottsass and Alessandro Mendini — a onetime mentor to Sottsass and a key figure in the Italian Radical movement — brought the discussion to bear on design.
Sottsass, an industrial designer, philosopher and provocateur, gathered a core group of young designers into a collective in 1980 they called Memphis. Members of the Memphis Group, which would come to include Martine Bedin, Michael Graves, Marco Zanini, Shiro Kuramata, Michele de Lucchi and Matteo Thun, saw design as a means of communication, and they wanted it to shout. That it did: The first Memphis collection appeared in 1981 in Milan and broke all the modernist taboos, embracing irony, kitsch, wild ornamentation and bad taste.
Memphis works remain icons of postmodernism: the Sottsass Casablanca bookcase, with its leopard-print plastic veneer; de Lucchi’s First chair, which has been described as having the look of an electronics component; Martine Bedin’s Super lamp: a pull-toy puppy on a power-cord leash. Even though it preceded the Memphis Group’s formal launch, Sottsass’s iconic Ultrafragola mirror — in its conspicuously curved plastic shell with radical pops of pink neon — proves striking in any space and embodies many of the collective’s postmodern ideals.
After the initial Memphis show caused an uproar, the postmodern movement within furniture and interior design quickly took off in America. (Memphis fell out of fashion when the Reagan era gave way to cool 1990’s minimalism.) The architect Robert Venturi had by then already begun a series of plywood chairs for Knoll Inc., with beefy, exaggerated silhouettes of traditional styles such as Queen Anne and Chippendale. In 1982, the new firm Swid Powell enlisted a group of top American architects, including Frank Gehry, Richard Meier, Stanley Tigerman and Venturi to create postmodern tableware in silver, ceramic and glass.
On 1stDibs, the vintage postmodern furniture collection includes chairs, coffee tables, sofas, decorative objects, table lamps and more.
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.
As dazzling as it is, the Arco lamp, on the other hand, prioritizes functionality — it’s wholly mobile, no drilling required. Designed in 1962 by architect-product designers Achille & Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, the piece takes the traditional form of a streetlamp and creates an elegant, arching floor fixture for at-home use.
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.