Art Deco Adjustable Counterweight Table Lamp Brass Nickel, France, circa 1935
Located in Vienna, AT
Nickeled counter-balance table lamp unattributed in very good condition, France, circa 1935 Fine desk lamp in the style of Jacques Adnet with a solide movable counterweight and very...
Brass, Nickel
Vintage 1980s Hustadt Leuchten Counter Balance Post Modern Table Desk Lamp
Located in Keego Harbor, MI
A vintage 1980s Hustadt Leuchten counter balance desk lamp. This chic post modern desk lamp is a classic 80s design featuring a fully adjustable design. This lamp has two rectangular...
Metal
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Hustadt Leuchten Modern Counter Balance Desk Lamp, Germany
Located in Den Haag, NL
Very nice counter balance Hustadt Luchten Desk lamp Halogen 1980s 2 light modes. Adjustable in all directions. Perfect working lamp.
Plastic
Minimalist Black and Chrome Table Lamp, Counter Balance Swiss 1970's
By Swisslamps International AG
Located in London, GB
The counter balance architect's table Lamp is a rare find attributed to Laszlo Nigrini for Swiss Lamps International, 1970's.
Metal, Chrome
Post-Modern Benny Frandsen Counter-Balance Halogen Task Lamp
Located in Chula Vista, CA
For your consideration a vintage post-modern Frandsen counter-balance halogen task lamp designed by Benny Frandsen, featuring white metal and chrome accents. Modernist/Postmodernist...
Metal
Midcentury adjustable diabolo counter balance architectural desk lamp, 1960s
By Stilnovo
Located in Zaandam, NL
A perfect example of midcentury italian craftsmanship from the 1960s. The brass is in a lovely patinated condition. The diabolo shade can be adjusted as can be seen in the pics. The ...
Metal, Brass
Italian Midcentury Brass Articulating and Counter-Balance Desk Lamp, Arredoluce
By Arredoluce, Angelo Lelii
Located in New York, NY
Elegant and Dramatic Italian Mid-Century Modern style desk or table lamp in the style of Angelo Lelli for Arredoluce composed of a round ball black marble base anchoring a solid bras...
Belgian Black Marble, Brass, Metal
Counter Balance Task lamp
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Articulating counter balance task lamp
Steel, Chrome
William Lescaze Counter Balance Lamp
Located in Hudson, NY
A limited (10) reproduction (1999), and (10) in (2010), of an original 1934 design.
Chrome plated metal counter balance lamp.
Metal
Counter Balance Architect Desk Lamp, 1980s
Located in MIJDRECHT, NL
Black metal Architect desk lamp with counterweight and red details, reminiscent of the Memphis Group style. The desk lamp can be placed in countless different positions. The heavy b...
Metal, Enamel
Hadrill and Horsemann Counter Balance Desk Lamp
Located in Stockport, GB
A Hadrill and Horstmann “Pluslite” desk lamp circa 1940s. The silver grey adjustable frame with counter balance features the cast H & H monogram and a retractable magnifier. The uniq...
Steel
Rare French Counter Balance Table Lamp
By Disderot
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Counter Balance Table Lamp
Brass, Steel, Aluminum
Brass Counter Balance Table Lamps
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Gorgeous set of two brass counter balance table lamps with dome shade. Each lamp is easily adjustable.
Vintage Italian Diabolo Counter Balancing Table Lamp, 1960s
Located in Leuven, Vlaams Gewest
Unusual mid century counter balancing table lamp with a diabolo shaped lamp shade.
Aluminum, Brass
French Counter Balance Table Lamp
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Weighted table lamp
Brass
Rare Lightolier Counter Balance Table Lamp
By Lightolier
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Table Lamp
Brass, Metal
Tiffany Studios New York "Counter Balance" Table Lamp
By Tiffany Studios
Located in New York, NY
A Tiffany Studios New York "Counter Balance" glass and bronze lamp. Featuring a Favrile glass "Damascene" shade with an iridescent Blue "Wave" pattern and a turtle back counter balan...
"Turtleback Tile Counter Balance" Desk Lamp by Tiffany Studios
By Tiffany Studios
Located in Englewood, NJ
An extremely rare American Art Nouveau "Turtleback Tile" counter balance table lamp by Tiffany Studios decorated with a Tiffany favrile iridized blue "damascene" shade a top a patina...
Bronze
"Turtleback Tile Counter Balance" Desk Lamp by, Tiffany Studios
By Tiffany Studios
Located in Englewood, NJ
A Fine and extremely rare American Art Nouveau "Turtleback Tile" Counter Balance Table Lamp by, Tiffany Studios decorated with a Tiffany Favrile iridized green "damascene" shade a to...
Bronze
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H 27.5 in W 7 in D 7 in
Robert Sonneman Counter Balance White Metal and Chrome 1980s Table Desk Lamp
By Robert Sonneman
Located in Keego Harbor, MI
A 1980s Robert Sonneman counter balance table lamp. This modern table lamp features a very chic 80s modern design, utilizing white cubed shapes, and tubular chrome framing.
Chrome
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H 45.5 in W 30 in D 4.5 in
Mid-Century Modern Tizio Metal Table Lamp Richard Sapper Artemide 1970s, Italy
By Richard Sapper, Artemide
Located in Keego Harbor, MI
For your consideration is an original Tizio, counter balance table lamp, by Richard Sapper for Artemide in 1972, made in Italy.
Metal
Tiffany Studios Counter Balance Desk Lamp
By Tiffany Studios
Located in Englewood, NJ
An American Art Nouveau "Counter Balance" desk lamp by, Tiffany Studios decorated with a Tiffany Favrile yellow decorated & iridized "damascene" shade a top a patinated bronze counte...
Bronze
Tiffany Studios "Counter Balance" Desk Lamp
By Tiffany Studios
Located in New York, NY
A Tiffany Studios New York glass and bronze “Counter Balance” desk lamp, featuring a blue and green iridescent “Damascene” Favrile glass shade suspended from a patinated bronze base....
Blown Glass
"Counter Balance" Desk Lamp by, Tiffany Studios
By Tiffany Studios
Located in Englewood, NJ
An American Art Nouveau "Counter Balance" desk lamp by, Tiffany Studios decorated with a Tiffany Favrile yellow decorated & iridized "damascene" shade a top a patinated bronze counte...
Bronze
Tiffany Studios Counter Balance Linen Fold Lamp
By Tiffany Studios
Located in Dallas, TX
Condition is wonderful. Desk lamp: Linen Fold shade on counterbalance base, #416 Gilt dore bronze counter balance base, Linen Fold glass and bronze shade.
Bronze
CEDRIC HARTMAN Counter Balance Brass Desk LAMP
By Cedric Hartman
Located in Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Vintage CEDRIC HARTMAN Counter Balance Brass Desk Lamp Made in United States, Omaha c. 1970s–80s. This finely crafted piece features a polished brass counterweight base, arched brass...
Brass, Chrome
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H 44.5 in W 8 in D 11 in
Brass Table Lamp with Counter Balance by Stilnova Adjustable Height & Direction
Located in Kansas City, MO
Large Italian counter-balance table or desk lamp by Stilnova. The height is adjustable as is the lamp fixture moves 360 degrees to direct light.
Brass, Steel
Tiffany Studios New York "Counter Balance" Desk Lamp
By Tiffany Studios
Located in New York, NY
A Tiffany Studios New York patinated bronze and Favrile glass desk lamp featuring a decorated green “Damascene” shade with iridescent decoration atop a single arm counter balance bas...
Tiffany Studios New York "Counter Balance" Desk Lamp
By Tiffany Studios
Located in New York, NY
A Tiffany Studios New York patinated bronze "counter balance" desk lamp featuring a yellow pulled feather shade. A similar base is pictured in: Tiffany Lamps and Metalware: An ill...
Tiffany Studios New York "Counter Balance" Desk Lamp
By Tiffany Studios
Located in New York, NY
A Tiffany Studios New York Favrile glass and patinated bronze desk lamp with an iridescent gold Favrile glass “Damascene” shade suspended from a patinated bronze “Counterbalance” bas...
Art Nouveau "Counter-Balance" Desk Lamp by Tiffany Studios
By Tiffany Studios
Located in Englewood, NJ
An American Art Nouveau bronze & favrile glass"Counter-Balance" Desk Lamp by, Tiffany Studios decorated with a yellow iridescent favrile "damascene" shade a top a patinated bronze "...
Bronze
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H 15.25 in Dm 8.25 in
Tiffany Studios New York Counter Balance Damascene Bronze and Favrile Desk Lamp
By Tiffany Studios
Located in Englewood, NJ
A Tiffany Studios New York Favrile glass and patinated bronze "Counter Balance" desk lamp with an iridescent orange decorated Tiffany Favrile glass “Damsacene” pattern shade. The sha...
Bronze
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H 45.5 in Dm 4 in
Pair of Self-Balancing Wavelength Table Lamps in Brass, Netherlands, circa 1975
By Jean Royère
Located in Brooklyn, NY
An incredible pair of counter balance 'wavelength' table lamps, each with a lyrically bent frame in lacquered steel and a conical, articulating shade and spherical counterweight, bot...
Brass, Steel
Tiffany Studios Counter Balance Table Lamp
By Tiffany Studios, Louis Comfort Tiffany
Located in Dallas, TX
Tiffany Studios counter balance bronze and pulled feather Favrile art glass shade table or desk lamp.
Bronze
Tiffany Studios "Counter Balance" Table Lamp
By Tiffany Studios
Located in New York, NY
A Tiffany Studios New York "Favrile" glass and patinated bronze desk lamp with a highly rare iridescent blue glass "Wave" design shade. This richly decorated shade is Dichroic, meani...
Bronze
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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