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
$15,000 / set
H 25.5 in Dm 14.5 in
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
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 ...
Sold
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.
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
$1,650 / item
H 16.1 in Dm 11.5 in
'Plissé White Edition' Pleated Textile Table Lamp by Folkform for Örsjö
By Örsjö Industri AB
Located in Glendale, CA
'Plissé White Edition' pleated textile table lamp by Folkform for Örsjö. This unique table lamp was awarded “Lighting of the Year 2022” by Residence Magazine Sweden, who called it “...
Textile
Bertu Counter Stools, White Oak Counter Stool, Chile Stool
By Bertu Furniture
Located in Oak Harbor, OH
Bertu Counter Stools, White Oak Counter Stool, Chile Stool This White Oak Chile Counter Stool is beautifully constructed from solid wood in Ohio, USA. The stool is chunky and modern...
Wood, Oak
$116,304
H 240 in W 552 in D 120 in
Mid-Victorian Moorish wrought & cast iron pergola or decorative garden structure
Located in London, GB
A monumental Moorish mid-Victorian wrought iron Pergola or Decorative Garden Structure, a unique masterpiece in High Victorian Ironwork design. Our research confirms it is French, da...
Wrought Iron
Pair of Table Lamps in Parchment and Wood Designed by Michel Leo
Located in Milan, IT
Astonishing pair of table lamps in parchment and wood designed by Michel Leo, made in Italy.
Wood
$342,071
H 100.6 in W 66.93 in D 24.81 in
Rare Moses Michelangelo Guggenheim & Pauly Cie Et Venice Antique Carved Armoire
By Guggenheim Museum, Pauly et Cie
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this very rare one of a kind Pauly CIE Et stamped hand carved walnut armoire made by the genius that was Moses Michelangelo Guggenheim 1837-1910 W...
Walnut
$187,500
H 102 in W 84.5 in D 22.5 in
Exceptional 19th Century English Chinoiserie Pagoda Display Cabinet
Located in Houston, TX
Large-scale 19th century English display cabinet executed in the Chinoiserie tradition. Constructed in carved mahogany and conceived as a tripartite architectural façade, each glazed...
Glass, Mahogany
$56,025Sale Price|55% Off
H 37.75 in W 72 in D 26.25 in
French 19th Century Louis XV Style Ormolu-Mounted Mahogany Commode Médallier
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A Fine and Impressive French 19th Century Louis XV Style Ormolu-Mounted Mahogany and Parquetry Commode a Vantaux, after the model Antoine Gaudreaux's 'Commode Médallier du Roi Louis ...
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
Venetian Monumental Seated Bird Cage
Located in Queens, NY
Italian Venetian style (20th Cent) octagonal shaped painted and decorated metal and wood bird cage with 8 upholstered seat and back cushions around base. (Franco Zefferelli Collection)
Metal
Karl Springer Rare and Monumental Shagreen Pair of Table Lamps
By Karl Springer
Located in Miami, FL
A pair of exquisite lamps by Karl Springer. The large spheres are solid wood meticulously covered in shagreen, the Pyramid shades are also wood covered in shagreen. Reportedly just a...
Shagreen
$6,400Sale Price / set|20% Off
H 21.75 in W 39.75 in D 16 in
Parchment Benches Inspired by Jean Michel Frank, Mid-Century Modern Style
By (after) Jean Michel Frank
Located in Chicago, IL
A contemporary 21st century pair of parchment benches in the style of Jean Michel Frank. Handsome midcentury silhouette with high sides and tapered feet. Newly upholstered in Larsen ...
Upholstery, Parchment Paper
$18,295
H 15.75 in W 64.97 in D 28.75 in
Large French coffee table oak wood petrified wood and slate top 1960
By Charlotte Perriand
Located in Paris, IDF
This large modernist French coffee table made in solid oak wood is sure to add an element of French brutalism to any living room. It was designed and produced in France by an unknown...
Oak
$526,790 / set
H 114.5 in W 35.5 in D 5 in
19th Century, Monumental Carved Boiserie Panels from Lartington Hall
Located in London, GB
The Lartington hall carved Boiserie panels by Signor Anton Leone Bulletti. A highly important suite of eight carved and patinated wood panels commissioned by Monsignor Thomas Edw...
Wood, Pine
Liceu de Artes e Ofícios. 19th Century Daybed
Located in Sao Paulo, SP
This recamier/daybed was conceived and executed with utmost quality and expertise, showing a style that incorporates many influences from the eigtheenth and ninetheenth century. Made...
Wood
$38,500
H 37 in W 65 in D 28 in
Rare and Important Walnut And Upholstered Parchment Bench By Carlo Bugatti
By Carlo Bugatti
Located in Montreal, QC
Carlo Bugatti bench upholstered with parchment, inlaid with pewter details and mounted with hammered copper decorations.Italy, c. 1906 literature: Carlo Bugatti au Musée d'Orsay, Mas...
Walnut
$10,505 / item
H 43.71 in W 114.97 in D 13.39 in
Charlotte Perriand Nuage À Plots, Wood and Aluminium by Cassina
By Charlotte Perriand, Cassina
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Shelving Unit designed by Charlotte Perriand in 1952-56. Relaunched by Cassina in 2012. Manufactured by Cassina in Italy. Nuage à Plots by Charlotte Perriand belongs to a select ...
Aluminum
$390,000
H 85 in W 77 in D 25 in
Mid-19th Century White Marble Statue "Le Triomphe D'Ariadne" from France
Located in Dallas, TX
Neoclassical carved white marble sculpture, "Le Triomphe D'Ariadne," signed J.B. Clesinger, Rome (Jean-Baptiste Auguste Clesinger, French, 1814-1883), dated 1866, showing Ariadne sea...
Marble
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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