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Flying Saucer Vintage Floor Lamp

Vintage Italian Space Age Floor Lamp in Chromed Metal with "Flying Saucer" Shade
Located in Milano, IT
This is a vintage floor lamp in stainless steel, chrome and painted metal. The flying saucer-like
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Vintage 1970s Italian Space Age Floor Lamps

Materials

Metal, Steel, Chrome

Vintage Italian Space Age Floor Lamp in Chromed Metal with "Flying Saucer" Shade
Vintage Italian Space Age Floor Lamp in Chromed Metal with "Flying Saucer" Shade
$3,444 Sale Price
20% Off
H 74.81 in W 13.78 in D 23.63 in

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Vintage Italian Space Age Floor Lamp in Chromed Metal with "Flying Saucer" Shade
Located in Milan, IT
This is a vintage floor lamp in stainless steel, chrome and painted metal. The flying saucer-like
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Vintage 1970s Italian Space Age Floor Lamps

Materials

Metal, Steel, Chrome

Vintage Italian Chromed Space Age "UfO" Floor Lamp in the Style of Reggiani
By Reggiani
Located in Milan, IT
Offered for sale is a vintage Italian-made floor lamp dating back to the 1970s, or if you prefer to
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Vintage 1970s Italian Space Age Floor Lamps

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Metal, Steel, Chrome, Stainless Steel, Cut Steel

Large Space Age Tripod Floor Lamp, 60s - Italian UFO Lamp Stilnovo Style
By Stilnovo
Located in San Benedetto Del Tronto, IT
Unique and impressive space age UFO floor lamp with an awesome flying saucer shape made in Italy in
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Vintage 1960s Italian Space Age Floor Lamps

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Metal

Flying Saucer Italian Space Age Standing Lamp, circa 1950
Located in Los Angeles, CA
glass flying saucer shade. This adaptable piece can fit right in to any space such as a living room
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Vintage 1950s Italian Space Age Floor Lamps

Materials

Aluminum

Vintage Italian Chromed Space Age "UfO" Floor Lamp in the Style of Reggiani
By Reggiani
Located in Milano, IT
Offered for sale is a vintage Italian-made floor lamp dating back to the 1970s, or if you prefer to
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Vintage 1970s Italian Space Age Floor Lamps

Materials

Metal, Steel, Cut Steel, Stainless Steel, Chrome

Mid Century Flying Saucer Floor Lamp
Located in Valley Stream, NY
Vintage fiberglass and antique brass "flying saucer", 75 watts.
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Vintage 1950s American Floor Lamps

Materials

Fiberglass

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Concrete

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By Vittorio Parigi and Nani Prina
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Orix desk, Vittorio Parigi & Nani Prina, Molteni & Co, Italy, circa 1970. "You write on it and I read on it, but she mirrors, the other puts away his books, while they study and they...
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1960s Floor Lamp
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1960s Floor Lamp
$1,203 Sale Price
14% Off
H 55.91 in W 13.78 in D 9.85 in
Italian Mid Century Abs Demetrio 45 Coffee Tables, Magistretti for Artemide 1966
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Located in MIlano, IT
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52% Off
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Vintage 1970s American Modern Floor Lamps

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A Close Look at Space-age Furniture

Vintage Space Age furniture captured post–World War II optimism with swooping shapes, bowed lines and experimentation with new materials including plastic and fiberglass.

From the launch of the Sputnik 1 satellite in 1957 to the landing of Apollo 11 astronauts on the moon in 1969, the space race between the Soviet Union and the United States propelled advancements in technology that transformed culture. Space Age design encompassed fashion, architecture, cars, furniture and objects for the home, bringing wonder and hope for the future into everyday life.

Coinciding with Pop art, Space Age style featured bold colors and forms. Eero Aarnio’s Ball chair, which debuted in 1966, used molded fiberglass for a capsule-like space while Verner Panton’s 1959 Panton chair was a single piece of molded plastic for a gravity-defying S shape. Red versions of Olivier Mourgue’s 1964 Djinn chair were futuristic enough to appear on the space station in Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey. Today, Joe Colombo is revered as a master of modern Italian design thanks to the provocative modular furniture pieces he created, such as the Tube chair and the Elda armchair, both of which embody the future-forward spirit of the Space Age.

The Space Age spirit extended to home building too. The futuristic Case Study Houses, which were designed by the likes of Pierre Koenig, Charles and Ray Eames, Richard Neutra and Whitney R. Smith, are considered a high point of modernism and the Southern California lifestyle.

Sometimes the nods to space exploration were more literal, like moon and star motifs or the 1965 Eclisse lamp by Vico Magistretti that saw the mid-century Italian designer integrating a movable inner shade to “eclipse” the light source. Alongside the pioneering moon missions, JVC manufactured the Videosphere portable television reminiscent of the Apollo 11 space helmets.

Although the style faded in the 1970s — with the 1975 joining of the Apollo and Soyuz spacecrafts signaling a new era of cooperation and the global oil crisis impacting the availability of plastics — the era’s innovations influenced designers into the 21st century such as Zaha Hadid and Djivan Schapira.

Find a collection of vintage Space Age seating, tables, lighting and other furniture on 1stDibs.

Finding the Right Floor-lamps for You

The modern floor lamp is an evolution of torchères — tall floor candelabras that originated in France as a revolutionary development in lighting homes toward the end of the 17th century. Owing to the advent of electricity and the introduction of new materials as a part of lighting design, floor lamps have taken on new forms and configurations over the years. 

In the early 1920s, Art Deco lighting artisans worked with dark woods and modern metals, introducing unique designs that still inspire the look of modern floor lamps developed by contemporary firms such as Luxxu

Popular mid-century floor lamps include everything from the enchanting fixtures by the Italian lighting artisans at Stilnovo to the distinctly functional Grasshopper floor lamp created by Scandinavian design pioneer Greta Magnusson-Grossman to the Paracarro floor lamp by the Venetian master glass workers at Mazzega. Among the more celebrated names in mid-century lighting design are Milanese innovators Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, who, along with their eldest brother, Livio, worked for their own firm as architects and designers. While Livio departed the practice in 1952, Achille and Pier Giacomo would go on to design the Arco floor lamp, the Toio floor lamp and more for legendary lighting brands such as FLOS

Today’s upscale interiors frequently integrate the otherworldly custom lighting solutions created by a wealth of contemporary firms and designers such as Spain’s Masquespacio, whose Wink floor lamps integrate gold as well as fabric fringes. 

Visual artists and industrial designers have a penchant for floor lamps, possibly because they’re so often a clever marriage of design and the functions of lighting. A good floor lamp can change the mood of any room while adding a touch of elegance to your entire space. Find yours now on 1stDibs.