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
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Albano Poli for Poliarte Italian Midcentury Lamp
$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
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Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Materials
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
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Vintage 1960s Italian Hollywood Regency Table Lamps
Materials
Pottery
Selection of Italian Midccentury Lamps
$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
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Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
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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.
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Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
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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.
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Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
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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
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Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
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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
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Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Materials
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
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Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Materials
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
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
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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
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Vintage 1950s American Table Lamps
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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
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps
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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
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Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
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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
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20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
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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
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Mid-20th Century Italian Empire Table Lamps
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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
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
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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
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
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Glass
Marble & Gilt Metal Sculpture Mid Century Table Lamp! Italian For Wilmar! 1950s
$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
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
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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
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Mid-20th Century Italian Hollywood Regency Table Lamps
Materials
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
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Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps
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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
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Vintage 1950s Italian Neoclassical Table Lamps
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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
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Vintage 1960s Italian Hollywood Regency Table Lamps
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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
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Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
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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
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
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
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20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
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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
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Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
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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
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
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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
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Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps
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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
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
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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
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20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
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Chrome
Rare Mutual Sunset 4-Light Mid Century Modern Italian Marble Table Lamp 1950s
$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
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Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
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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
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps
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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
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Mid-20th Century Italian Table Lamps
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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
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Mid-20th Century American Hollywood Regency Table Lamps
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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
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
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Rattan
Black floor lamp with adjustable lights, 1960s
By Mid Century Antiques
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Black floor lamp with adjustable lights, 1960.
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Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps
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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
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20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
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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
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Materials
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
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
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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
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20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
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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
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Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps
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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
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
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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
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Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps
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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
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20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
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Metal
mid century steel lamp, vintage, italy
Located in Brussels, BE
mid century steel lamp, vintage, italy
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Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
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Steel
Steel and glass floor lamp
By Mid Century Antiques
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Condition:Good Materials:Glass, Metal Epoch:1960
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Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps
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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
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Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps
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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
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Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
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Porcelain
Mid-Century Cocoon Floor Lamp, Italy, 1970s
Located in Brussels, BE
Mid-Century Cocoon Floor Lamp, Italy, 1970s
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps
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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
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Vintage 1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
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Pine
Set of two small metal bedside lamps, 1950s
$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...
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Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
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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
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Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
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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
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Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
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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
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
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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
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Vintage 1960s Italian Table Lamps
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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
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Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
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Metal, Brass
Italian Mid-Century Bloodstone Glazed Lamps
$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
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20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Brass
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Italian Mid Century Lamp For Sale on 1stDibs
Choose from an assortment of styles, material and more with respect to the Italian mid century lamp you’re looking for at 1stDibs. Frequently made of metal, glass and brass, every Italian mid century lamp was constructed with great care. Find 34531 options for an antique or vintage Italian mid century lamp now, or shop our selection of 1688 modern versions for a more contemporary example of this long-cherished piece. Your living room may not be complete without an Italian mid century lamp — find older editions for sale from the 18th Century and newer versions made as recently as the 21st Century. An Italian mid century lamp is a generally popular piece of furniture, but those created in mid-century modern, Hollywood Regency and modern styles are sought with frequency. A well-made Italian mid century lamp has long been a part of the offerings for many furniture designers and manufacturers, but those produced by Stilnovo, Artemide and Carlo Nason are consistently popular.
How Much is an Italian Mid Century Lamp?
An Italian mid century lamp can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price 1stDibs is $2,354, while the lowest priced sells for $1 and the highest can go for as much as $700,000.
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 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.
Finding the Right Lighting for You
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.
Questions About Italian Mid Century Lamp
- 1stDibs ExpertFebruary 13, 2023To identify mid-century lamps, look for a manufacturer's label or stamp on the base or the shade. You can use trusted online resources to determine when the company or artisan was active. Some lamps may also have a date stamp that you can use for identification purposes. Pieces dating from the late 1950s through the early 1970s are mid-century in terms of their age. A mid-century modern lamp will show off hallmarks of the design style, such as curvy hourglass or globe forms. A certified appraiser or experienced antiques dealer may also be able to help with the identification. Find a range of mid-century lamps on 1stDibs.
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