Italian mid century lamp Medusa by Leucos 1960s
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian mid century lamp Medusa by Leucos 1960s table lamp with abstract decoration in white and
Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Metal
Italian mid century lamp Medusa by Leucos 1960s
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian mid century lamp Medusa by Leucos 1960s table lamp with abstract decoration in white and
Metal
$2,212Sale Price|20% Off
Albano Poli for Poliarte Italian Midcentury Lamp
By Poliarte, Albano Poli
Located in bari, IT
Beautiful table lamp from the 1970s Italian design by Albano Poli for Poliarte. At the end of the
Iron
Italian "Lava" Glaze Table Lamp After Marcello Fantoni
By Marcello Fantoni, Bitossi, The Marbro Lamp Company, Aldo Londi, Raymor
Located in Houston, TX
fabulous Italian mid century lamp is primarily orange with brown and white accents which appear to be
Pottery
$1,500 / item
Selection of Italian Midccentury Lamps
Located in Atlanta, GA
Selection of Italian midcentury lamps, Italy, circa 1950s. They are, from left to right in the
Metal, Brass
Mid-Century Modern Italian Table Lamp by Designer, 1950s Glass
By Mid Century Antiques
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Italian table lamp, mid-century modern design, made of satin-finished glass. Italy, circa 1950.
Glass
Mid-Century Modern Table Lamp, Glass, Italy, 1950 by Designer
By Mid Century Antiques
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Mid-century modern table lamp, made of white glass with blue and green hues. Italy, circa 1950.
Glass
Mid-Century Modern Acrylic Table Lamp by Designer, Italy, 1950
By Mid Century Antiques
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Acrilyc table lamp with a metal base. Acrylic wasn't yet as industrialized as it is now and was
Acrylic
White glass table lamp with black metal base in mid-century 1960s style
By Mid Century Antiques
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Glass and metal table lamp, 1960s Condition: Very good - restored Materials: Painted metal, Opal glass
Metal
20th Century, Eccentric Bronze Gun Shaped Table Lamp
By Mid Century Antiques
Located in Turin, Turin
Here we have an eccentric table lamp with gun shaped base, made of bronze with parchment lampshade
Bronze
Mid-Century Green Metal Desk Lamp: A.R. TORINO Italy 1950s
Located in Miklavž Pri Taboru, SI
Mid-century metal desk lamp Ministerial lamp A.R. TORINO Italy 1950s green office table lamp. The
Metal
Mid-Century Italian Alabaster Marbro Company Lamp
By The Marbro Lamp Company
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Alabaster carved in Italy, urn lamp by the The Marbro Lamp Company. Circa 1950's. New linen
Alabaster
Mid-Century Italian Stilnova Floor lamp
Located in Queens, NY
Mid-Century (1950s) Italian brass floor lamp having 5 adjustable multi-colored conical shaped metal
Brass
Expertly Restored - Mid-Century Modern Italian Marble Table Lamp by Laurel
By Laurel Lamp Company
Located in Los Angeles, CA
________________________________________ Transforming a piece of Mid-Century Modern furniture is like bringing history back to life, and we take this
Marble
Mid-Century Italian Table Lamp
Located in Hamburg, DE
Small Mid Century table lamp from Italy. Elegant table lamp with turquoise screen. The screen is
Metal
Mid 20th Century Italian Tole Lamp
Located in Doylestown, PA
Mid 20th century Italian tole lamp with original shade. Fine Italian tole column form table lamp
Tôle, Brass
Italian Mid-Century Murano Glass Egg Lamp
Located in Queens, NY
Italian Mid-Century Murano glass egg lamp with a golden spiral hue design and sitting on a stepped
Brass
Gino Vistosi Italian Mid Century 'Ghost' Lamp
By Gino Vistosi
Located in Queens, NY
Italian Mid-Century Murano white glass table lamp in a ghost / spirit shape with a translucent
Glass
$1,100Sale Price|20% Off
Marble & Gilt Metal Sculpture Mid Century Table Lamp! Italian For Wilmar! 1950s
By The Marbro Lamp Company, Raymor
Located in Peoria, AZ
MARBLE PARCHMENT SHADE EXQUISITE MID CENTURY ELEGANCE! HEIGHT: 25" SHADE: 16" WIDE This lamp is
Crystal, Metal, Brass
Mid Century Hollywood Regency Italian Glass Table Lamps c. 1950/60's
By The Marbro Lamp Company
Located in New York, NY
Pair of chic Italian glass table lamps, having elongated gray glass bodies, mounted on brass
Brass
Mid-Century Italian Floor Lamp
Located in Austin, TX
Floor lamp from mid-century Italy with three chromed adjustable arms and original shades. The
Metal
Pair of Paul Hanson for Murano Mid Century Italian Modern Blue Glass Table Lamps
By Mabro Murano
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A vintage pair Paul Hanson design for Murano art glass lamps from Italy circa 1950s. These feature
Brass
Pair of Italian Mid-Century Modern Glass and Marble Lamps
By The Marbro Lamp Company, Frederick Cooper
Located in Houston, TX
Pair of Italian Mid-Century Modern glass and marble lamps Beautiful pair of Italian Hollywood
Marble
Mid Century Italian Table Lamp
By Bitossi
Located in Kilmarnock, VA
palette evoke the meticulous craftsmanship and artistic vitality synonymous with mid-century Italian
Ceramic
Italian Mid-Century Black-Figure Pottery Table Lamp
Located in Queens, NY
Italian Mid-Century Black-Figure Pottery table lamp featuring a triskele with three interlocking
Mid-Century Italian Minimalist Table Lamp
Located in Hamburg, DE
Mid Century table lamp from Italy. A minimalist design with a special base. The reflector head is
Metal
Mid-Century Italian Table Lamp
By Fontana Arte
Located in San Francisco, CA
Mid-Century Italian table lamp. High quality construction and attention to detail comprising a cut
Brass
Carlo Nason Italian Mid-Century Brutalist Table Lamp
By Carlo Nason
Located in Queens, NY
Italian Mid-Century brutalist table lamp with two large murano glass waveform panes (attr: CARLO
Glass
Mid-Century Italian Arch Lamp
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Long arch lamp in polished chrome. Mid-Century Modern Italian floor lamp for home or office
Chrome
Italian Mid-Century Blue Murano Glass Table Lamp
Located in Queens, NY
Italian Mid-Century blue Murano glass table lamp with a bulbous body that tapers upward into a
Brass
Mid-Century Modern Lamp by Mutual Sunset Lamp Company
By Mutual Sunset Lamp Co.
Located in Dallas, TX
A Mid-Century Modern lamp with round, black base and a zigzag chrome support and a chrome eye-ball
Chrome
$2,320Sale Price|20% Off
Rare Mutual Sunset 4-Light Mid Century Modern Italian Marble Table Lamp 1950s
By Mutual Sunset Lamp Co.
Located in Peoria, AZ
FABULOUS MODERNISM! MUTUAL SUNSET 4-LIGHT MID CENTURY MODERN TABLE LAMP! ITALIAN MARBLE AND
Metal, Enamel
Italian Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamp
By Ettore Sottsass
Located in Houston, TX
Mid-Century Modern floor lamp Unsigned but identical to designs by the noted architect Ettore
Chrome
Vintage Table Lamp, Italy, Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage table lamp is an original design lamp item realized in the mid-20th Century. This lamp
Art Glass
Mid-Century Italian Sheaf of Wheat Gold Gilt Table Lamps by The Marbro Lamp CO.
By The Marbro Lamp Company
Located in Las Vegas, NV
Exquisite pair of ~Sheaf of Wheat~ table lamps designed by the Marbro Lamp Company of Los Angeles
Metal
Mid-Century Vintage Italian Table Lamp
Located in Roma, IT
Beautiful, elegant and rare rattan table lamp. it is a prestigious Italian manufacture from the mid
Rattan
Black floor lamp with adjustable lights, 1960s
By Mid Century Antiques
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Black floor lamp with adjustable lights, 1960.
Metal
Mid-Century Italian Table Lamp, 1950s
Located in Hamburg, DE
Mid-Century Italian Table Lamp, 1950s, in Very Good conditions. Designed 1950 to 1959 European
Metal
Italian Mid-Century Style Orange "Mushroom" Nesso Lamp
Located in Queens, NY
Mid-Century style orange mushroom-shaped plastic table lamp. The \"Nesso Table Lamp\" was first
Fir
Mid-century table lamp Italy 1970s
Located in Miklavž Pri Taboru, SI
Mid-century table lamp made in Italy in the 1970s. The lamp is in very good vintage condition, with
Chrome
Mid-Century Italian Table Lamp, 1960s
Located in Hamburg, DE
Italian mid-century table lamp. A functional design that convinces with its simple elegance. All
Metal
Mid-Century Floor Lamp, Italy, 1960s
Located in Praha, CZ
Three arms Mid-Century Italian floor lamp made of brass and opaline glass. Very good original
Brass
Pair of Italian Nove White Glazed Ceramic Urn Table Lamps
By Nove, Italy
Located in Bruton, GB
A striking pair of Italian ceramic table lamps crafted in Nove, the renowned ceramic-producing town
Ceramic
Floor lamp with parchment hat, Italian manufacture, 1950s
By Mid Century Antiques
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Floor lamp with parchment hat, Italian manufacture, 1950s
Metal
Mid-Century Italian Table Lamp, 1960s
Located in Hamburg, DE
Italian mid-century table lamp. A functional design that convinces with its simple elegance. All
Metal
mid century steel lamp, vintage, italy
Located in Brussels, BE
mid century steel lamp, vintage, italy
Steel
Steel and glass floor lamp
By Mid Century Antiques
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Condition:Good Materials:Glass, Metal Epoch:1960
Steel
Mid Century Italian Floor Lamp, 1950s
Located in Leuven, Vlaams Gewest
Mid century floor lamp from italy. The lamp is made from a brass rod with wooden reflectors and
Brass
Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamp
Located in Byron Bay, NSW
Italian mid century hand painted porcelain table lamp, Buddha shaped 1960s. Gold hand paint
Porcelain
Mid-Century Cocoon Floor Lamp, Italy, 1970s
Located in Brussels, BE
Mid-Century Cocoon Floor Lamp, Italy, 1970s
Metal
Pine Mid-Century Square Italian Mid-Century Table Lamp
Located in London, GB
A pine geometric square table lamp. Italy, c1980s. Formed from layers of wood reverted. Since
Pine
$3,607 / set
Set of two small metal bedside lamps, 1950s
By Mid Century Antiques
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Pair of bedside lamps, anonymous, Italy, circa 1950, painted metal, unmarked, characterized by an illuminating body enclosed by a rotating metal cap that allows the intensity and dir...
Metal
Italian Mid-Century Table Lamp, 1950s
Located in Marinha Grande, PT
Elegant Italian desk lamp from the 1950s, representative of post-war modernist design. Its metal
Metal, Brass
Mid-Century Italian Marble Table Lamp
Located in San Francisco, CA
Mid-century Italian marble conical shape table lamp, high quality design and construction lamp
Marble
Stilnovo-Style Table Lamp, Italy Mid-20th Century
Located in Greding, DE
Small table lamp with brass stem and round marble base and three conical lampshades in black, red
Brass
Mid-Century Italian Porcelain Lamp
Located in New York, NY
A circa 1960's Italian porcelain table lamps with brass base. Measurements: Height of body: 16
Porcelain
Lamp Production Helo leuchten, Cristian Dell 1950s
By Mid Century Antiques
Located in Milano, Lombardia
condition: Good - Signs of Time Materials: Metal, Brass Époque : 1950 Measurements: 46x37x33 cm
Metal, Brass
$3,600 / set
Italian Mid-Century Bloodstone Glazed Lamps
Located in New York, NY
Pair of Italian Mid-Century ceramic lamps with a mottled bloodstone gloss glaze, sitting on matte
Brass
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
CHARACTERISTICS OF MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGN
MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNERS TO KNOW
ICONIC MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNS
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 celebrated 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.
Generations turn over, and mid-century modern remains arguably the most popular style going. 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.
The right table lamp, outwardly sculptural chandelier or understated wall pendant can work wonders for your home. While we’re indebted to thinkers like Thomas Edison for critically important advancements in lighting and electricity, we’re still finding new ways to customize illumination to fit our personal spaces all these years later. A wide range of antique and vintage lighting can be found on 1stDibs.
Today, lighting designers like the self-taught Bec Brittain have used the flexible structure of LEDs to craft glamorous solutions by working with what is typically considered a harsh lighting source. By integrating glass and mirrors, reflection can be used to soften the glow from LEDs and warmly welcome light into any space.
Although contemporary innovators continue to impress, some of the classics can’t be beat.
Just as gazing at the stars allows you to glimpse the universe’s past, vintage chandeliers like those designed by Gino Sarfatti and J. & L. Lobmeyr, for example, put on a similarly stunning show, each with a rich story to tell.
As dazzling as it is, the Arco lamp, on the other hand, prioritizes functionality — it’s wholly mobile, no drilling required. Designed in 1962 by architect-product designers Achille & Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, the piece takes the traditional form of a streetlamp and creates an elegant, arching floor fixture for at-home use.
There is no shortage of modernist lighting similarly prized by collectors and casual enthusiasts alike — there are Art Deco table lamps created in a universally appreciated style, the Tripod floor lamp by T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, Greta Magnusson Grossman's sleek and minimalist Grasshopper lamps and, of course, the wealth of mid-century experimental lighting that emerged from Italian artisans at Arredoluce, FLOS and many more are hallmarks in illumination innovation.
With decades of design evolution behind it, home lighting is no longer just practical. Crystalline shaping by designers like Gabriel Scott turns every lighting apparatus into a luxury accessory. A new installation doesn’t merely showcase a space; carefully chosen ceiling lights, table lamps and floor lamps can create a mood, spotlight a favorite piece or highlight your unique personality.
The sparkle that your space has been missing is waiting for you amid the growing collection of antique, vintage and contemporary lighting for sale on 1stDibs.
The alluring pendant light exemplifies the designer’s winsome mid-career work.
Patrizio Chiarparini of Brooklyn’s Duplex gallery sheds light on the lasting legacy of Italy’s postwar furniture boom.
There are many lessons to be learned from the lofts, apartments and townhouses of architects and decorators in Manhattan and beyond.
Having created extravagant homes for reality TV’s biggest stars, the designer is stepping into the spotlight with his first book.
The Louisiana-born and -bred architect talks to 1stdibs about the art of making timeless places that matter.
The Palm Springs interior decorator developed a mid-century style that defined the vacation homes of celebrities and other notables, including Bob Hope and Lucille Ball.
The houses from this New York studio cloak modernist tendencies within what are often more traditional trappings.
In the market for a fantastic fixture from the 1940s, ’50s or ’60s? Here are some names to know.