Wonderful Brushed Nickel Gilt Bronze Caldwell Neoclassical Regency Paw Foot Lamp
By Edward F. Caldwell & Co.
Located in Roslyn, NY
A Wonderful Brushed Silver and Gilt Bronze Swag Neoclassical / Regency Paw Foot Lamp In The Manner Of E.F. Caldwell With Wreath Finial, Rewired And Ready To Enjoy.
Bronze, Nickel
Moorcroft Art Pottery 'Fuchsia' Footed Lamp with Lightolier Glass Reflector Bowl
By Moorcroft Pottery, Lightolier
Located in Cincinnati, OH
This striking English art pottery lamp was made by the renowned Moorcroft Pottery company of Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. Initially with James Macintyre & Co., innovative ...
Metal
Bronze Art Nouveau Lamp with Majorelle Foot and Pâte de Verre
By Hector Guimard, Louis Majorelle
Located in Rebais, FR
Bronze lamp with nickel patinated finish and purple glass. (glass color can be change by dark blue, amber, sanded, red or green).
Bronze
Large Mid-Century Brass Striped Fabric Crow Foot Table Light, Austria 1950s
Located in Steinheim am Albuch, BW
The elegant table lamp made of brass and metal is equipped with a tapered, striped fabric shade (which can be adjusted to different positions as required) and still comes the origina...
Brass, Metal
$1,360 / item
Classic Gold Table Lamp
By Stillux
Located in Milan, IT
Sitting on a double-layered, footed metal base, this table lamp strikes with its elegant silhouette.
Glass
$1,690 / set
A Pair of Rupert Nikoll Table Lamps
By Rupert Nikoll
Located in Vienna, AT
A pair of table lamps. Brass foot with a bamboo middle rod fitted each with E14 socket, blue fabric shade.
Brass
Very Nice bamboo table lamp circa 1970
Located in Monaco, MC
Very Nice Bambou table lamp. Foot in patinated brass, lampshade in rattan.
Brass
Pumpkin-Shaped Table Lamps by Just Andersen, 1920s, Denmark
By Just Andersen
Located in Værløse, DK
* Set of (2) pumpkin-shaped diskometal table lamps on foot with white fabric shades. * Model: 1273 * Period: 1926–1929 * Condition: Good vintage condition with impressed maker’s ma...
Metal
Peill & Putzler White Clouds Glass Table Lamp, 1970s
By Peill & Putzler
Located in Verviers, BE
Hollow-footed glass table lamp made by Peill & Putzler in the 1970s.
Metal
Hand Painted Persimmon Peonies & Parcel Gilt Table Lamp
Located in Chicago, IL
Double gourd form ceramic hand painted and parcel gilt Asian inspired table lamp with footed black lacquered carved and stepped wood base.
Mid-Century Italian Baobab Table Lamp from Iguzzini, 1970s
By iGuzzini
Located in Hamburg, DE
The white of the umbrella is repeated in the foot of the table lamp. The heavy foot forms a narrow cone.
Metal
Barovier&Toso Murano Glass Table Lamp, Gold Inclusions, Italy, 1960s
By Barovier&Toso
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Handblown Murano Italian footed glass table lamp with lots of gold inclusions, by Barovier & Toso.
Glass
Pumpkin-Shaped Diskometal Table Lamp by Just Andersen, 1920s, Denmark
By Just Andersen
Located in Værløse, DK
A fine lamp for a beautiful home. * Pumpkin-shaped diskometal table lamp on foot with a fabric shade with cognac-coloured stripes. * Style: 1273 * Year: 1926-1929 * Condition: Fair...
Metal
Remarkable dual-shade Table Lamp by Just Andersen, 1930s, Denmark
By Just Andersen
Located in Værløse, DK
. * A metal table lamp on foot with two fabric shades with cognac-coloured stripes * Model: 1926 (stamped ‘Just 1926’) * Year: 1937 * Condition: Good vintage condition.
Metal
Postmodern Flamingo Table Task Lamp by Fridolin Naef for Luxo, 1980s
By Luxo
Located in Hamburg, DE
The range and general appearance of the lamp can be changed in no time. A turntable is integrated in the table foot so that the lamp can rotate.
Metal
$796Sale Price / set|20% Off
Pair of 70's Karl Springer Style Torchier Table Lamps
By Karl Springer
Located in Lake Worth, FL
Offering One Of Our Recent Palm Beach Estate Fine Lighting Acquisitions Of A Pair of 70's Karl Springer Style Lucite Brass Glass Torchiere Table Lamps Features footed Lucite bas...
Brass
Antique French Empire Neoclassical Gold Dore Bronze Figural Column Table Lamp
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Antique French Empire Neoclassical Gold Gilt Dore Bronze Figural Paw Foot Column Table Lamp with Glass Insert and Adjustable Height Finial.
Bronze
Vintage German Carl Thieme Dresden Porcelain Amphora Vasiform Urn Table Lamp
By Meissen Porcelain, Dresden Porcelain, Carl Thieme
Located in Forney, TX
A elegant antique German Dresden porcelain amphora-shaped vasiform urn, Carl Thieme, Potschappel, richly decorated with stunning hand painted floral roses and laurel garlands against...
Brass
$1,091Sale Price|25% Off
Large Rustic Table Lamp, Stained solid wood, Uno Kristiansson, Luxus, Sweden
By Uno & Östen Kristiansson, Luxus of Sweden, Östen Kristiansson, Uno Kristiansson, Luxus Vittsjö
Located in Brussels, Brussels
A sculptural table lamp, lamp foot in turned pine or beech wood, dark stained.
Pine, Beech
$3,028Sale Price / set|20% Off
Pair large Table Lamps, Stained solid Pine, Uno Kristiansson, Luxus, Sweden
By Uno & Östen Kristiansson, Luxus of Sweden, Östen Kristiansson, Uno Kristiansson, Luxus Vittsjö
Located in Brussels, Brussels
A pair of sculptural table lamps. Lamp foots in turned pine wood, dark stained.
Pine
Pair of Alvino Bagni for Bitossi Italian Ceramic Fish Striped Table Lamps
By Alvino Bagni
Located in Queens, NY
Pair of Mid-Century Italian ceramic table lamps in footed ovoid form with waisted neck, housing a dark metal stem, both with functioning brass light switch sockets plus harps.
Metal, Brass
$2,793Sale Price / set|20% Off
Pair large cylindric wood Table Lamps by Uno & Östen Kristiansson, Luxus, Sweden
By Uno & Östen Kristiansson, Luxus of Sweden, Östen Kristiansson, Uno Kristiansson, Luxus Vittsjö
Located in Brussels, Brussels
A pair of architectural table lamps. Lamp foots in wood, probably teak.
Teak
Pair of Paavo Tynell 'Umbrella' Table Lamps 5061, Brass & Glass, Taito 1940s
By Paavo Tynell, Taito Oy
Located in Helsinki, FI
This "Umbrella" shade is in delicate harmony with a central brass stem and foot. A timeless table lamp and one of the classics that is suitable for desktops at offices or living roo...
Brass
Pair Antique 19c Chinese Blue & White Prunus Blossom Vase Table Lamps Early 20c
Located in Richmond, CA
A matching pair of antique 19c Chinese blue and white vase of elongated barrel form, hand painted with sprays of prunus blossoms in reserve on cobalt blue ground, drilled four charac...
Porcelain
20th Century Murano Glass / Gold Flecks Pair Lamp
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Mid 20th century Murano glass with gold flecks design details footed pair table lamp. Each lamp is in great working condition.
Gold
Peill & Putzler Frosted and Textured Glass Lamp, 1970s
By Peill & Putzler
Located in Verviers, BE
Hollow-footed glass table lamp made by Peill & Putzler in the 1970s.
Metal
$636Sale Price|20% Off
Claw Footed Occasional Lamp Side Table Vintage by Hickory Chair Co
By Hickory Chair Furniture Company
Located in Lake Worth, FL
Offering One of Our Recent Palm Beach Estate Fine Furniture Acquisitions Of A Vintage 1980s Georgian Style Claw Footed Occasional Lamp Side Table by Hickory Chair Co With a Flame Mah...
Mahogany
Lovely Pair of Burr & Burl Walnut, Claw & Ball Foot, Side End Lamp Wine Tables
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely pair of burr & burl walnut side end tables with magazine storage and claw & ball feet. These are a very fine and well made pair, the...
Walnut
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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