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Laurel Genie Lamp

Pr. Mid Century Genie Table Lamps by Laurel c 1960's
By Laurel Lamp Company
Located in New York, NY
Chic pair of Genie table lamps, made by The Laurel Lamp Company, model H-803 circa 1960's
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps

Materials

Metal

Tony Paul Laurel Mid Century Modern Teak & Brass Genie Bottle Table Lamp 33"
By Laurel Lamp Company, Tony Paul
Located in Dayton, OH
Circa 1960's pair of mid century Danish modern genie bottle style table lamps. Round half brass
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Mid-20th Century Scandinavian Modern Table Lamps

Materials

Brass

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Satin Chrome Genie Lamps by Laurel
By Laurel Lamp Company
Located in Houston, TX
This is a smaller pair of polished chrome genie lamps perfect for bedside tables.
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Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps

Pair of Polished Steel Genie Bottle Lamps by Laurel
By Laurel Lamp Company
Located in New York, NY
Exceptional pair of polished steel "genie bottle" form lamps by Laurel.
Category

20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps

Materials

Steel

Laurel Genie Magenta or Pink Table Lamp
By Laurel Studios
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Bright pink or magenta Laurel genie lamp with original shade. Base and shade shows a little paint
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps

Materials

Metal

Laurel Genie Table Lamp
By Laurel Lamp Company
Located in New York, NY
Vintage Genie table lamp manufactured by Laurel Lamp Company. Original, clean, and working
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps

Pair of Fluted Genie Brass Tables Lamps by Laurel Lamp Co.
By Laurel Lamp Company
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
A pair of wonderfully designed brass and rosewood laminate three-stage table lamps by the Laurel
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Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps

Materials

Metal

Pair of Midcentury Brass Laurel Table Lamps
By Laurel Lamp Company
Located in San Mateo, CA
Pair of Laurel lamps in a genie bottle form. These have a brass finish. There are a couple of small
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Vintage 1960s American Table Lamps

Materials

Metal, Brass

Laurel Genie Table Lamps
By Laurel Lamp Company
Located in New London, CT
Nice newly lacquered and rewired pair of Laurel lamps. Lacquered in an off-white/antique white.
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps

Materials

Metal

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21st Century and Contemporary Swedish Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps

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Organic Modern Small Table Lamp Natural Wood Handmade Ivory Fluted Shade
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Located in San Antonio, TX
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Huge Pair Of Orange Drip Glaze Lamps Mid-century Modern Danish
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Located in Pemberton, NJ
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Mid-Century Modern Avocado Green and Gold Plasto Lamps with Original Shades
By Plasto Usa
Located in Chattanooga, TN
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Pr. Mid-Century Modern Ceramic Table Lamps
Located in New York, NY
Stylish pair of Mid-Century table lamps having textured ceramic surfaces with smooth glaze triangular panels. The textured ground is a bronze / brown tone, the triangular panels are ...
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps

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Ceramic

Pair Of Walnut And Brass Laurel Lamps With Original Shades Mid-century Danish
By Laurel Lamp Company
Located in Pemberton, NJ
Wonderful pair of walnut and brass laurel lamps with their original shades. This pair look amazing with the original linen shades with wooden applied diamonds.
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Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps

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Brass

André Sornay Cabinets in Mahogany
By Andre Sornay
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André Sornay Cabinets in Mahogany
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Pair of Mid-Century Modern Lemon & Lime Ceramic Table Lamps Yellow Green
Located in Las Vegas, NV
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Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps

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Ceramic

Lovely Pair of Brushed Brass Laurel Lamps Mid-century Danish Modern
By Laurel Lamp Company
Located in Pemberton, NJ
Lovely pair of mid-century modern brushed brass laurel lamps with walnut details.
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Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps

Materials

Walnut

Pair of Sculptural Mid-Century Modern Chrome Lamps by Laurel, circa 1960s
By Laurel Lamp Company
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
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Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps

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Chrome

Pair of 1960s Brass and Acrylic Table Lamps by Laurel
By Laurel Lamp Company
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of brass and acrylic table lamps by Laurel Lamp Co. Measure: Base 5" sq.  
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Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps

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Brass

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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

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.

Finding the Right Table-lamps for You

Well-crafted antique and vintage table lamps do more than provide light; the right fixture-and-table combination can add a focal point or creative element to any interior.

Proper table lamps have long been used for lighting our most intimate spaces. Perfect for lighting your nightstand or reading nook, table lamps play an integral role in styling an inviting room. In the years before electricity, lamps used oil. Today, a rewired 19th-century vintage lamp can still provide a touch of elegance for a study.

After industrial milestones such as mass production took hold in the Victorian era, various design movements sought to bring craftsmanship and innovation back to this indispensable household item. Lighting designers affiliated with Art Deco, which originated in the glamorous roaring ’20s, sought to celebrate modern life by fusing modern metals with dark woods and dazzling colors in the fixtures of the era. The geometric shapes and gilded details of vintage Art Deco table lamps provide an air of luxury and sophistication that never goes out of style.

After launching in 1934, Anglepoise lamps soon became a favorite among modernist architects and designers, who interpreted the fixture as “a machine for lighting,” just as Le Corbusier had reimagined the house as “a machine for living in.” The popular task light owed to a collaboration between a vehicle-suspension engineer by the name of George Carwardine and a West Midlands springs manufacturer, Herbert Terry & Sons

Some mid-century modern table lamps, particularly those created by the likes of Joe Colombo and the legendary lighting artisans at Fontana Arte, bear all the provocative hallmarks associated with Space Age design. Sculptural and versatile, the Louis Poulsen table lamps of that period were revolutionary for their time and still seem innovative today

If you are looking for something more contemporary, industrial table lamps are demonstrative of a newly chic style that isn’t afraid to pay homage to the past. They look particularly at home in any rustic loft space amid exposed brick and steel beams.

Before you buy a desk lamp or table lamp for your living room, consider your lighting needs. The Snoopy lamp, designed in 1967, or any other “banker’s lamp” (shorthand for the Emeralite desk lamps patented by H.G. McFaddin and Company), provides light at a downward angle that is perfect for writing, while the Fontana table lamp and the beloved Grasshopper lamp by Greta Magnusson-Grossman each yield a soft and even glow. Some table lamps require lampshades to be bought separately.

Whether it’s a classic antique Tiffany table lamp, a Murano glass table lamp or even a bold avant-garde fixture custom-made by a contemporary design firm, the right table lamp can completely transform a room. Find the right one for you on 1stDibs.