Vintage Victorian Brass Student Lamp with White Glass Shade
Located in Clifton Springs, NY
Vintage table lamp features traditional Victorian style student lamp form with white or milk glass hobnail shade.
Brass
$2,475Sale Price|20% Off
H 22.25 in Dm 6.89 in
1910s Antique Student Desk Lamp with Racing Green Glass Shade
Located in Reading, Berkshire
Antique Student Desk Lamp With Racing Green Glass Shade.
Brass
$772Sale Price|65% Off
H 13.78 in Dm 7.49 in
Victorian Design Student Desk Lamp with Racing Green Glass Shade & Switch
Located in Reading, Berkshire
Victorian Design Student Desk Lamp with Racing Green Glass Shade & Switch Shade is pivotable to offer different directional light.
Brass
$3,322
H 17.72 in W 5.91 in D 5.91 in
Elegant Victorian Adjustable Brass Student Lamp with Racing Green Ceramic Shade
Located in Reading, Berkshire
Late 19th Century Brass Adjustable Student Reading Lamp with Racing Green Ceramic Shade Reworked For Modern Day Use with a UK three pin plug. A timeless design classic suitable fo...
Brass
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H 19.5 in W 17.5 in D 11 in
Antique Harvard School Brass Student Lamp with Decorated Green Cased Glass Shade
Located in Big Flats, NY
An antique Harvard School student lamp offers brass frame with urn form fonts and adjustable arm having gilt decorated green cased glass shade, 20th century.
Metal, Brass
Brass Student or Desk Lamp with Green Ribbed Shade
Located in San Francisco, CA
Aladdin Style German Brass Kerosene Student Lamp, converted to electric. Manufacturer is Wild & Wessel, Berlin.
Brass
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H 22.5 in W 11.5 in D 6.5 in
Antique Harvard Student Lamp with Emeralite Shade Alladin Lamp Form 19th Century
Located in Big Flats, NY
An antique Harvard student lamp offers brass construction with Aladin lamp form and Emeralite shade, electrified, 19th century Measures - 22.5"H x 11.5"W x 6.5"D.
Brass
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H 17.72 in W 5.91 in D 5.91 in
Elegant Victorian Adjustable Brass Student Lamp with Racing Green Ceramic Shade
Located in Reading, Berkshire
Late 19th Century Brass Adjustable Student Reading Lamp with Racing Green Ceramic Shade Reworked For Modern Day Use with a UK three pin plug. A timeless design classic suitable fo...
Brass
Antique Student Lamp with Green Glass Shade
Located in Bridgeport, CT
In very good condition with adjustable height, ring finial, twisted brass column base and wrapped champagne silk cord.
Brass
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H 26 in W 12.5 in D 7 in
Antique Arts & Crafts Tiffany School Bronze Student Lamp with Art Glass Shade
By Tiffany Studios
Located in Big Flats, NY
Antique Arts & Crafts bronze student lamp features Tiffany School pulled feather art glass shade, bronze base with foliate form gooseneck adjustable arm and star form base, circa 191...
Bronze
Antique Bronze Argand Student Lamp & Shade, Electrified, Circa 1820
Located in Big Flats, NY
An antique Argand student lamp offers bronze frame with urn form font and etched glass shade, electrified, circa 1820 Measures: 18.75" H x 12" W x 7" D.
Metal, Bronze
$2,795
H 19 in W 23 in D 8 in
Tiffany & Co. Antique Bronze Argon Double Student Desk Lamp, Late 19th Century
By Tiffany & Co.
Located in South Bend, IN
An outstanding Arts & Crafts or Art Deco period double arm student desk lamp By Hinrichs of New York and retailed by Tiffany & Co. New York, USA, Late 19th Century Bronze, with be...
Bronze
$350,000Sale Price|30% Off
H 39.5 in W 58 in D 82 in
Rare Antique 1901 Steinway Model B Rosewood Grand Piano Louis XV Rococo Restored
By Steinway & Sons
Located in Dayton, OH
Fully Restored 1901 Steinway & Sons Model B Louis XV Baroque Rococo Grand Piano – Serial Number 99151, Full 88 key keyboard. The most exquisitely detailed example of a turn of the c...
Fruitwood, Rosewood
$60,530
H 88.98 in W 70.87 in D 94.89 in
Renaissance Style Oak Tester 4 Poster Bed Armorial Tapestry Bedspread King Size
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
A vintage king size oak tester or four poster bed in the Renaissance style. Hand carved with Adam & Eve carvings in the headboard, figurative sculptures in the bedposts, three carve...
Oak
$976,800
H 15 in W 39 in D 34 in
Tiffany & Company, George Paulding Farnham, A Rare, Lavish Silver Centerpiece
By Paulding Farnham., Tiffany & Co.
Located in Long Island City, NY, NY
Tiffany & Company and George Paulding Farnham, A rare, lavish and monumental sterling silver centerpiece with original mirrored-glass sterling silver plateau, circa 1900. Museum...
Sterling Silver
$60,692Sale Price|20% Off
H 104.34 in W 153.55 in D 19.69 in
Antique Pharmacy Cabinet, Walnut Bookcases and Glass Doors with Sign, '800 Italy
Located in Cuneo, Italy (CN)
Complete antique pharmacy cabinet, with 3 open bookcases on the sides, 1 bookcase with drawers and 2 original doors with glass and enameled mirror sign. Built in the mid-19th century...
Glass, Walnut
19th Century Tester Bed
Located in New Orleans, LA
This lavish American tester bed exhibits superior craftsmanship and detail. The design is embellished with elaborate carvings on the headboard and sides. The stunning wood grain enha...
Silk, Wood
$1,277,860
H 24.81 in W 51.97 in D 34.26 in
Antique Victorian Louis XIV Style Centrepiece by Barnard & Sons
By Edward Barnard & Sons
Located in London, GB
Antique Victorian Louis XIV style centrepiece by Barnard & Sons English, 1850-53 Dimensions: height 63cm, width 132cm, depth 87cm. This magnificent centrepiece is wrought from s...
Silver
$1,984,172
H 179.93 in W 90.95 in D 24.02 in
Monumental Fireplace Signed by Jules Allard and Louis Ardisson
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Located in the hall of a ballroom, this exceptional fireplace welcomed the 80 guests of Edward Julius Berwind's luxurious New York home in the Louis XV style. It attests to the true ...
Marble, Breccia Marble, Carrara Marble
$2,286
H 23.23 in Dm 5.91 in
Antique American Student Converted Twin Oil Lamp By Bradley & Hubbard 1800's
By Bradley & Hubbard
Located in Reading, Berkshire
Antique American Student Converted Twin Oil Lamp By Bradley & Hubbard 1800's The Bradley & Hubbard Manufacturing Company (1852–1940) was formed in Meriden, Connecticut, and over th...
Brass
Victorian Brass Adjustable Gas Lamp with Racing Green Shade, 1800s
Located in Reading, Berkshire
Victorian Antique Brass Adjustable Student Gas Lamp With A Racing Green Glass Shade & Clean Glass Inner Shade. A timeless design classic suitable for an antique or modern day de...
Brass
American Victorian Caldwell Bronze Double Student Lamp
By Edward F. Caldwell & Co.
Located in Queens, NY
American Victorian monumental bronze double arm student lamp with 6 sided amber glass filigree shades (CALDWELL).
Bronze
19th Century Mahogany Chippendale Partners Pedestal Desk
By Thomas Chippendale
Located in London, GB
A high quality partners library table By H Samuel of Oxford street The design by Thomas Chippendale Constructed in mahogany, of hour-glass shape, the plinth base having stif...
Brass
Stobwasser Nickel Plated Student Lamp
By Stobwasser
Located in Savannah, GA
A nickel plated electrified student lamp by Stobwasser, Berlin, circa 1880. 10 ¼ inches wide by 6 ½ inches deep by 21 ¼ inches tall
Metal
American Victorian Brass Gorham Student Lamp
By Gorham
Located in Queens, NY
Gorham American Victorian brass single arm student lamp with adjustable dome shaped shade.
Brass
$122,551
H 162.21 in W 88.98 in D 30.71 in
19th Century Regency Oak Fireplace Inspired by Versailles, France
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Antique oak wood fireplace inspired by the fireplace in the Hercules Salon in Versailles Palace. This antique Regence style fireplace was made out of carved oak wood in the late 19th...
Oak
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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