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B Rooke Lamp

B. Rooke Ceramic Lamp with Custom Made Silk Lampshade René Houben, 1960s
By Bernard Rooke
Located in Rijssen, NL
A rare table lamp by Bernard Rooke, England, 1960s. Sculptural high-end piece, made of handmade
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Mid-20th Century Austrian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps

Materials

Metal, Brass

Pair of B. Rooke Ceramic Lamp with Custom Made Lampshade René Houben
By Bernard Rooke
Located in Rijssen, NL
A rare pair of table lamps by Bernard Rooke, England, 1960s. Sculptural pieces, made of handmade
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Mid-20th Century European Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps

Materials

Metal, Brass

B. Rooke Ceramic Lamp with New Custom Made Lampshade by René Houben, 1960s
By Bernard Rooke
Located in Rijssen, NL
A rare ceramic table lamp by Bernard Rooke, England, 1960s. Sculptural piece, made of handmade
Category

Mid-20th Century British Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps

Materials

Metal, Brass

B. Rooke Ceramic Table Lamp with Custom Made Silk Lampshade René Houben, 1960s
By Bernard Rooke
Located in Rijssen, NL
A rare ceramic table lamp by Bernard Rooke, England, 1960s. Sculptural piece, made of handmade
Category

Mid-20th Century English Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps

Materials

Metal, Brass

Large B. Rooke Ceramic Lamp, 1960s with Custom Made Silk Lampshade by René Hoube
By Bernard Rooke
Located in Rijssen, NL
A rare large ceramic table lamp by Bernard Rooke, England, 1960s. Sculptural piece, made of
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Vintage 1960s British Brutalist Table Lamps

Materials

Brass

Bernard Rook Vase Waterscape Pottery Glazed White Brown Blue, 1960-1965
Located in Eversholt, Bedfordshire
Bernard Rook (b.1938): Organic Waterscape Vase, 1960-1965 -Rare example of Rooke’s oeuvre
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1960s More Art

Materials

Ceramic

Bernard Rook Vase Waterscape Pottery Glazed White Brown Blue, 1960-1965
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
Bernard Rook (b.1938): Organic Waterscape Vase, 1960-1965 Rare example of Rooke’s oeuvre
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Vintage 1960s British Mid-Century Modern Vases

Materials

Pottery

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Large B. Rooke Ceramic Table Lamp with Custom Made Silk Lampshade by René Houben
By Bernard Rooke
Located in Rijssen, NL
A rare large ceramic table lamp by Bernard Rooke, England, 1960s. Sculptural piece, made of
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B. Rooke Ceramic Lamp with Custom Made Silk Lampshade René Houben, 1960s
By Bernard Rooke
Located in Rijssen, NL
A rare ceramic table lamp by Bernard Rooke, England, 1960s. A sculptural piece, made of handmade
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Mid-20th Century British Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps

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Metal, Brass

Pair of B. Rooke Ceramic Lamp with Custom Made Lampshade René Houben
By Bernard Rooke
Located in Rijssen, NL
A rare pair of table lamps by Bernard Rooke, England, 1960s. Sculptural pieces, made of handmade
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Mid-20th Century British Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps

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B. Rooke Ceramic Lamp with New Custom Made Silk Lampshade by René Houben, 1960s
By Bernard Rooke
Located in Rijssen, NL
Exceptional table lamp by Bernard Rooke, England, 1960s. Sculptural high-end piece, made of
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Mid-20th Century British Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps

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Metal, Brass

B. Rooke Ceramic Floor Lamp with Custom Made New Silk Lampshade by René Houben
By Bernard Rooke
Located in Rijssen, NL
A rare, or oversize, ceramic TOTEM table lamp by Bernard Rooke, England, 1960s. Sculptural piece
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Mid-20th Century British Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps

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Pair of B. Rooke Ceramic Table Lamps with Custom Made Lampshade by René Houben
By Bernard Rooke
Located in Rijssen, NL
A rare pair of ceramic table lamps by Bernard Rooke, England, 1960s. Sculptural pieces, made of
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Mid-20th Century British Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps

Materials

Metal, Brass

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B Rooke Lamp For Sale on 1stDibs

With a vast inventory of beautiful furniture at 1stDibs, we’ve got just the b rooke lamp you’re looking for. Frequently made of ceramic, metal and brass, every b rooke lamp was constructed with great care. There are many kinds of the b rooke lamp you’re looking for, from those produced as long ago as the 20th Century to those made as recently as the 20th Century. Each b rooke lamp bearing Mid-Century Modern or Modern hallmarks is very popular. Many designers have produced at least one well-made b rooke lamp over the years, but those crafted by Bernard Rooke and Bernard Rooke Studio are often thought to be among the most beautiful.

How Much is a B Rooke Lamp?

Prices for a b rooke lamp can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — at 1stDibs, they begin at $499 and can go as high as $10,500, while the average can fetch as much as $3,200.

A Close Look at mid-century-modern Furniture

Organically shaped, clean-lined and elegantly simple are three terms that well describe vintage mid-century modern furniture. The style, which emerged primarily in the years following World War II, is characterized by pieces that were conceived and made in an energetic, optimistic spirit by creators who believed that good design was an essential part of good living.

ORIGINS OF MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGN

CHARACTERISTICS OF MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGN

MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNERS TO KNOW

ICONIC MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNS

VINTAGE MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE ON 1STDIBS

The mid-century modern era saw leagues of postwar American architects and designers animated by new ideas and new technology. The lean, functionalist International-style architecture of Le Corbusier and Bauhaus eminences Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius had been promoted in the United States during the 1930s by Philip Johnson and others. New building techniques, such as “post-and-beam” construction, allowed the International-style schemes to be realized on a small scale in open-plan houses with long walls of glass.

Materials developed for wartime use became available for domestic goods and were incorporated into mid-century modern furniture designs. Charles and Ray Eames and Eero Saarinen, who had experimented extensively with molded plywood, eagerly embraced fiberglass for pieces such as the La Chaise and the Womb chair, respectively. 

Architect, writer and designer George Nelson created with his team shades for the Bubble lamp using a new translucent polymer skin and, as design director at Herman Miller, recruited the Eameses, Alexander Girard and others for projects at the legendary Michigan furniture manufacturer

Harry Bertoia and Isamu Noguchi devised chairs and tables built of wire mesh and wire struts. Materials were repurposed too: The Danish-born designer Jens Risom created a line of chairs using surplus parachute straps for webbed seats and backrests.

The Risom lounge chair was among the first pieces of furniture commissioned and produced by legendary manufacturer Knoll, a chief influencer in the rise of modern design in the United States, thanks to the work of Florence Knoll, the pioneering architect and designer who made the firm a leader in its field. The seating that Knoll created for office spaces — as well as pieces designed by Florence initially for commercial clients — soon became desirable for the home.

As the demand for casual, uncluttered furnishings grew, more mid-century furniture designers caught the spirit.

Classically oriented creators such as Edward Wormley, house designer for Dunbar Inc., offered such pieces as the sinuous Listen to Me chaise; the British expatriate T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings switched gears, creating items such as the tiered, biomorphic Mesa table. There were Young Turks such as Paul McCobb, who designed holistic groups of sleek, blond wood furniture, and Milo Baughman, who espoused a West Coast aesthetic in minimalist teak dining tables and lushly upholstered chairs and sofas with angular steel frames.

As the collection of vintage mid-century modern chairs, dressers, coffee tables and other furniture for the living room, dining room, bedroom and elsewhere on 1stDibs demonstrates, this period saw one of the most delightful and dramatic flowerings of creativity in design history.

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.