Italian Mid Century Vintage Floor Lamps
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Italian Mid Century Vintage Floor Lamps
Metal, Stainless Steel
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Italian Mid Century Vintage Floor Lamps
Brass
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Italian Mid Century Vintage Floor Lamps
Brass
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Italian Mid Century Vintage Floor Lamps
Brass
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Italian Mid Century Vintage Floor Lamps
Metal
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Italian Mid Century Vintage Floor Lamps
Metal, Brass
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Italian Mid Century Vintage Floor Lamps
Metal, Brass
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Italian Mid Century Vintage Floor Lamps
Brass
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Italian Mid Century Vintage Floor Lamps
Metal
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Italian Mid Century Vintage Floor Lamps
Brass
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Italian Mid Century Vintage Floor Lamps
Metal, Brass
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Italian Mid Century Vintage Floor Lamps
Brass
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Italian Mid Century Vintage Floor Lamps
Glass, Wood
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Italian Mid Century Vintage Floor Lamps
Brass
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Italian Mid Century Vintage Floor Lamps
Metal
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Italian Mid Century Vintage Floor Lamps
Aluminum, Iron
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Italian Mid Century Vintage Floor Lamps
Carrara Marble, Brass
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Italian Mid Century Vintage Floor Lamps
Carrara Marble, Brass
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Italian Mid Century Vintage Floor Lamps
Marble, Aluminum, Brass
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Italian Mid Century Vintage Floor Lamps
Marble, Metal, Brass
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Italian Mid Century Vintage Floor Lamps
Metal, Brass
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Italian Mid Century Vintage Floor Lamps
Marble, Brass
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Italian Mid Century Vintage Floor Lamps
Metal
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Italian Mid Century Vintage Floor Lamps
Marble, Metal
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Italian Mid Century Vintage Floor Lamps
Marble, Metal, Bronze
1970s Italian Italian Mid Century Vintage Floor Lamps
Glass, Murano Glass
20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Italian Mid Century Vintage Floor Lamps
Marble, Metal
20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Italian Mid Century Vintage Floor Lamps
Metal
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Italian Mid Century Vintage Floor Lamps
Brass
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Italian Mid Century Vintage Floor Lamps
Metal
1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Italian Mid Century Vintage Floor Lamps
Brass
1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Italian Mid Century Vintage Floor Lamps
Brass
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Italian Mid Century Vintage Floor Lamps
Chrome
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Italian Mid Century Vintage Floor Lamps
Brass
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Italian Mid Century Vintage Floor Lamps
Steel
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Italian Mid Century Vintage Floor Lamps
Brass
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Italian Mid Century Vintage Floor Lamps
Chrome
Mid-20th Century Italian Italian Mid Century Vintage Floor Lamps
Onyx, Brass
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Italian Mid Century Vintage Floor Lamps
Chrome
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Italian Mid Century Vintage Floor Lamps
Metal, Brass
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Italian Mid Century Vintage Floor Lamps
Chrome
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Italian Mid Century Vintage Floor Lamps
Brass
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Italian Mid Century Vintage Floor Lamps
Marble, Brass, Enamel
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Italian Mid Century Vintage Floor Lamps
Chrome
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Italian Mid Century Vintage Floor Lamps
Metal
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Italian Mid Century Vintage Floor Lamps
Wood
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Italian Mid Century Vintage Floor Lamps
Metal
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Italian Mid Century Vintage Floor Lamps
Brass
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Italian Mid Century Vintage Floor Lamps
Chrome
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Italian Mid Century Vintage Floor Lamps
Stainless Steel, Chrome
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Italian Mid Century Vintage Floor Lamps
Glass
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Italian Mid Century Vintage Floor Lamps
Metal
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Italian Mid Century Vintage Floor Lamps
Bamboo, Rattan
1970s Italian Post-Modern Italian Mid Century Vintage Floor Lamps
Brass
20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Italian Mid Century Vintage Floor Lamps
Metal, Brass
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Italian Mid Century Vintage Floor Lamps
Marble, Enamel, Bronze, Metal, Brass
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Italian Mid Century Vintage Floor Lamps
Metal
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Italian Mid Century Vintage Floor Lamps
Iron
20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Italian Mid Century Vintage Floor Lamps
Steel, Iron, Chrome
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Italian Mid Century Vintage Floor Lamps
Carrara Marble, Steel, Chrome
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A Close Look at mid-century-modern Furniture
Organically shaped, clean-lined and elegantly simple are three terms that well describe vintage mid-century modern furniture. The style, which emerged primarily in the years following World War II, is characterized by pieces that were conceived and made in an energetic, optimistic spirit by creators who believed that good design was an essential part of good living.
ORIGINS OF MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGN
- Emerged during the mid-20th century
- Informed by European modernism, Bauhaus, International style, Scandinavian modernism and Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture
- A heyday of innovation in postwar America
- Experimentation with new ideas, new materials and new forms flourished in Scandinavia, Italy, the former Czechoslovakia and elsewhere in Europe
CHARACTERISTICS OF MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGN
- Simplicity, organic forms, clean lines
- A blend of neutral and bold Pop art colors
- Use of natural and man-made materials — alluring woods such as teak, rosewood and oak; steel, fiberglass and molded plywood
- Light-filled spaces with colorful upholstery
- Glass walls and an emphasis on the outdoors
- Promotion of functionality
MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNERS TO KNOW
- Charles and Ray Eames
- Eero Saarinen
- Milo Baughman
- Florence Knoll
- Harry Bertoia
- Isamu Noguchi
- George Nelson
- Danish modernists Hans Wegner and Arne Jacobsen, whose emphasis on natural materials and craftsmanship influenced American designers and vice versa
ICONIC MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNS
- Eames lounge chair
- Nelson daybed
- Florence Knoll sofa
- Egg chair
- Womb chair
- Noguchi coffee table
- Barcelona chair
VINTAGE MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE ON 1STDIBS
The mid-century modern era saw leagues of postwar American architects and designers animated by new ideas and new technology. The lean, functionalist International-style architecture of Le Corbusier and Bauhaus eminences Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius had been promoted in the United States during the 1930s by Philip Johnson and others. New building techniques, such as “post-and-beam” construction, allowed the International-style schemes to be realized on a small scale in open-plan houses with long walls of glass.
Materials developed for wartime use became available for domestic goods and were incorporated into mid-century modern furniture designs. Charles and Ray Eames and Eero Saarinen, who had experimented extensively with molded plywood, eagerly embraced fiberglass for pieces such as the La Chaise and the Womb chair, respectively.
Architect, writer and designer George Nelson created with his team shades for the Bubble lamp using a new translucent polymer skin and, as design director at Herman Miller, recruited the Eameses, Alexander Girard and others for projects at the legendary Michigan furniture manufacturer.
Harry Bertoia and Isamu Noguchi devised chairs and tables built of wire mesh and wire struts. Materials were repurposed too: The Danish-born designer Jens Risom created a line of chairs using surplus parachute straps for webbed seats and backrests.
The Risom lounge chair was among the first pieces of furniture commissioned and produced by legendary manufacturer Knoll, a chief influencer in the rise of modern design in the United States, thanks to the work of Florence Knoll, the pioneering architect and designer who made the firm a leader in its field. The seating that Knoll created for office spaces — as well as pieces designed by Florence initially for commercial clients — soon became desirable for the home.
As the demand for casual, uncluttered furnishings grew, more mid-century furniture designers caught the spirit.
Classically oriented creators such as Edward Wormley, house designer for Dunbar Inc., offered such pieces as the sinuous Listen to Me chaise; the British expatriate T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings switched gears, creating items such as the tiered, biomorphic Mesa table. There were Young Turks such as Paul McCobb, who designed holistic groups of sleek, blond wood furniture, and Milo Baughman, who espoused a West Coast aesthetic in minimalist teak dining tables and lushly upholstered chairs and sofas with angular steel frames.
As the collection of vintage mid-century modern chairs, dressers, coffee tables and other furniture for the living room, dining room, bedroom and elsewhere on 1stDibs demonstrates, this period saw one of the most delightful and dramatic flowerings of creativity in design history.
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.
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