Color Lucite Lamp
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps
Metal
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps
Metal, Brass
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Lucite
Antique Mid-17th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps
Iron
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Lucite
Mid-20th Century European Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Bronze
Mid-20th Century German Hollywood Regency Table Lamps
Metal
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Metal
2010s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Murano Glass, Lucite
Vintage 1980s American Post-Modern Table Lamps
Ceramic
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Nickel
20th Century American Modern Table Lamps
Lucite
Late 20th Century French Modern Table Lamps
Textile, Lucite, Ceramic
20th Century Italian Space Age Table Lamps
Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary Asian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Porcelain, Lucite
20th Century French Hollywood Regency Table Lamps
Vintage 1980s Unknown Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Brass
Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Lucite
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Bronze
Vintage 1950s Italian Hollywood Regency Table Lamps
Chrome
20th Century Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Quartz, Rock Crystal, Nickel
Vintage 1980s Unknown Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Brass
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Chrome
20th Century Table Lamps
Porcelain, Lucite
1990s Unknown Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Bronze
1990s Unknown Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Bronze
1990s Unknown Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Nickel
Vintage 1960s Unknown Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Jade, Brass
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Crystal
Late 20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps
Chrome
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Brass
20th Century Asian Table Lamps
Lucite, Porcelain
21st Century and Contemporary Table Lamps
Lucite, Porcelain
Vintage 1970s Unknown Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Brass
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Wood, Lucite
Antique 19th Century French Table Lamps
Porcelain, Lucite
Vintage 1970s Unknown Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Brass
Vintage 1970s Unknown Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Bronze
Vintage 1980s American Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Brass
20th Century Table Lamps
Porcelain, Lucite
Vintage 1980s Unknown Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Asian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Porcelain, Lucite
Antique 18th Century Italian Table Lamps
Lucite, Wood
20th Century Table Lamps
Brass
Vintage 1970s Unknown Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Brass, Nickel
Antique Early 19th Century Italian Table Lamps
Lucite, Walnut
Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Crystal, Brass, Nickel
Vintage 1980s Italian Modern Table Lamps
Jade, Brass
Vintage 1980s American Post-Modern Table Lamps
Brass
1990s Unknown Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Crystal, Nickel
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Brass, Metal
1990s Unknown Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Nickel, Silver Leaf
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Porcelain, Lucite
20th Century American Art Deco Floor Lamps
Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary American Table Lamps
Ceramic
Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Brass
Vintage 1980s Unknown Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Concrete
21st Century and Contemporary American Post-Modern Table Lamps
Ceramic, Lucite
Late 20th Century Bohemian Table Lamps
Bamboo, Lucite
Antique 19th Century Chinese Ming Table Lamps
Lucite
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Materials: plastic Furniture
Arguably the world’s most ubiquitous man-made material, plastic has impacted nearly every industry. In contemporary spaces, new and vintage plastic furniture is quite popular and its use pairs well with a range of design styles.
From the Italian lighting artisans at Fontana Arte to venturesome Scandinavian modernists such as Verner Panton, who created groundbreaking interiors as much as he did seating — see his revolutionary Panton chair — to contemporary multidisciplinary artists like Faye Toogood, furniture designers have been pushing the boundaries of plastic forever.
When The Graduate's Mr. McGuire proclaimed, “There’s a great future in plastics,” it was more than a laugh line. The iconic quote is an allusion both to society’s reliance on and its love affair with plastic. Before the material became an integral part of our lives — used in everything from clothing to storage to beauty and beyond — people relied on earthly elements for manufacturing, a process as time-consuming as it was costly.
Soon after American inventor John Wesley Hyatt created celluloid, which could mimic luxury products like tortoiseshell and ivory, production hit fever pitch, and the floodgates opened for others to explore plastic’s full potential. The material altered the history of design — mid-century modern legends Charles and Ray Eames, Joe Colombo and Eero Saarinen regularly experimented with plastics in the development of tables and chairs, and today plastic furnishings and decorative objects are seen as often indoors as they are outside.
Find vintage plastic lounge chairs, outdoor furniture, lighting and more on 1stDibs.
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.
- What color is Lucite?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertOctober 12, 2021Lucite is crystal clear but can be dyed with various colors. Lucite is an acrylic plastic resin used primarily in windows and fashionable interior and furniture design due to its strength, crystal transparency and flexibility. Find a vast collection of Lucite items ranging from furniture, lighting and jewelry pieces on 1stDibs.
- 1stDibs ExpertFebruary 22, 2021The color of your lampshade is totally up to you. The more sheer the lampshade, the brighter the light will be.
- 1stDibs ExpertFebruary 17, 2023What colored glass lamps are called depends on their design. People usually refer to lamps with stained glass shades as Tiffany lamps or Tiffany-style lamps, after Louis Comfort Tiffany, the best known designer of this style of lamp (even if the fixture is not a product of the iconic Tiffany Studios). Colored glass lamps made by artisans on Murano in Venice are commonly referred to as Murano lamps. Shop a collection of lamps from some of the world's top sellers on 1stDibs.
- 1stDibs ExpertOctober 19, 2021White color lamp shades go well with polished brass, whereas off-white or cream-colored lamp shades look better with antique brass. On 1stDibs, shop a variety of vintage and antique lampshades to meet any style or décor scheme.
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