Italian Gilded Wood Venetian Figural Torchère Candelabra Floor Lamp
Located in Antwerp, BE
This is an exquisite decorative Venetian style candelabra floor lamp from Florence! This rare and elegant Italian midcentury carved wood and polychrome painted figure is holding a ...
Metal, Brass
Exceptional Venetian Nubian Torcheres in Painted Wood
Located in Paris, FR
Pair of Venetian Nubian torcheres in painted and gilded wood with girandoles in Murano glass. Italian work from the beginning of the 19th century.
Impressive pair of Venetian torcheres
Located in New York, NY
Impressive and high pair of Venetian torcheres attributed to Barovier. Three hammered glass pieces separate the various parts. One of the most elegant and modern pairs of torcheres ...
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H 77.17 in W 15.75 in D 17.72 in
Italian Gilded Wood Venetian Figural Torchère Candelabra Floor Lamp
Located in Antwerp, BE
This is an exquisite decorative Venetian style candelabra floor lamp! This rare and elegant Italian midcentury carved wood and polychrome painted figure is holding a ten-arm cande...
Metal
Antique Venetian Carved Wood Figural Torchere 19th Century
Located in London, GB
This is a beautiful antique Venetian carved wood, gilt and polychrome decorated figural torchere on stand, Circa 1880 in date. The torchere is modelled as a woman standing on an or...
Marble
Pair of Antique Venetian Painted Wrought Iron Torcheres
By Edward F. Caldwell & Co.
Located in New York, NY
This pair of impressive Hand painted wood and gesso floor lamps with Wrought iron candelabras in the Venetian style on marble bases. Each has a central candlestick surrounded by si...
Composition, Metal
Pair of Venetian Gondola Lantern Torcheres
Located in Hanover, MA
Antique pair of painted and parcel-gilt Venetian gondola lantern torcheres, each with pentagonal lantern adorned with scrolling foliage along the sides, on double-knopped stand and c...
Giltwood
Fabulous Pair of Venetian Gondola Lantern Torchères
Located in Petworth,West Sussex, GB
A fabulous pair of 19th century hand painted and hand crafted Venetian gondola tôle lantern torcheres, each with hexagonal lantern adorned with decorations, figures and scrolling fol...
Metal, Wrought Iron, Tôle
Pair of Hand-Carved Wood Venetian Torcheres
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Hand-carved wood torcheres. With integrated design.
Karl Springer Rare Pair of "Venetian Glass Table Top Torcheres" 1980s
By Seguso Vetri d'Arte, Karl Springer
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Rare pair of large illuminating hand-blown “Venetian Glass Table Top Torcheres” with scavo finish and uplights inside by Seguso Vetri d'Arte (Murano) for Karl Springer, American 1980...
Metal
Vintage Venetian Carved and Gilt Torchere
Located in San Francisco, CA
A very large classic Venetian gilt wood baroque style torchere. Elegantly carved with garlands, dolphins and acanthus leaves. We think this piece dates to about 1920 and originall...
Wood
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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