$7,513 / set
H 22.05 in W 5.12 in D 9.45 in
Pair of Marcel Breuer Art Deco Architectural Lamps, Paris Exposition
By Marcel Breuer
Located in Zagreb, HR
Pair of the architectural table lamps based on the design by Marcel Breuer for the The
Bronze, Nickel
$8,000Sale Price|20% Off
H 21 in W 12 in D 6.5 in
Marcel Breuer Art Deco Table Lamps, Nickel-Plated Brass, Hungary, 1925
By Marcel Breuer
Located in New York, NY
Made of nickel-plated brass, this design was created for the Paris Exposition des Arts Décoratifs
Brass, Nickel
$5,283
H 19.69 in W 14.97 in D 5.12 in
Brass Bauhaus Art Deco architectural desk or table lamp attributed Marcel Breuer
By Marcel Breuer
Located in Zaandam, NL
practically all the same details as this one which is marked: Marcel Breuer exposition Paris 1925. Please note
Brass
Bauhaus Desk Lamp Signed Marcel Breuer Exposition, Paris, 1925
By Marcel Breuer
Located in Morazzone, Varese
presented during the exhibition in Paris in 1925. Marcel Breuer, well known for the design of the Wassily
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H 21.5 in W 12.25 in D 5.88 in
Antique Art Deco Brass Table Lamp by Marcel Breuer for 1925 Paris Exposition
By Marcel Breuer
Located in Detroit, MI
This antique Art Deco brass table lamp by Marcel Breuer is dated from 1925. This exceptional and
Brass, Nickel
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H 22.05 in W 5.12 in D 9.85 in
Very Rare Bauhaus Commemorative Brass Table Lamp by Marcel Breuer, 1925
By Marcel Breuer
Located in Baambrugge, NL
A very rare Bauhaus brass table lamp, stamped 'Marcel Breuer/Exposition/Paris 1925' (on the base
Brass
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H 11.42 in W 10.24 in D 5.91 in
Brass Bauhaus Art Deco lamp by Marcel Breuer, Paris exposition 1925
By Marcel Breuer
Located in Zaandam, NL
Wonderfull large brass desk lamp by Marcel Breuer for the 1925 Paris exposition, stamped. We
Brass
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H 19.3 in W 11.03 in D 5.12 in
Brass Bauhaus Art Deco lamp by Marcel Breuer, Paris exposition 1925
By Marcel Breuer
Located in Zaandam, NL
Wonderfull large brass desk lamp by Marcel Breuer for the 1925 Paris exposition, stamped and marked
Brass
Exposition de Paris Brass Desk Lamp by Marcel Breuer, signed, Paris 1925
By Marcel Breuer
Located in New York, NY
. Marked on the plinth with engraved round seal "Exposition Paris 195 Marcel Breuer".
Brass
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H 22.84 in W 9.06 in D 7.88 in
Marcel Breuer table lamp, Exposition of Paris 1925, Made in Germany Bauhaus
By Marcel Breuer
Located in Pambio Noranco, CH
. Composed of brass plated nickel and stamped “Exposition Paris 1925”. Made in Germany, designer Marcel
Brass
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H 22.05 in W 5.12 in D 9.85 in
Exceptional Pair of Brass Table Lights by Marcel Breuer, Paris Exhibition, 1925
By Marcel Breuer
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
stamped on the base: Marcel Breuer Exposition Paris, 1925.
Brass
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H 20.87 in W 13.39 in D 5.91 in
Exceptional Pair of Brass Table Lights by Marcel Breuer, Paris Exhibition, 1925
By Marcel Breuer
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
stamped on the base: Marcel Breuer Exposition Paris, 1925.
Brass
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H 22.05 in W 5.12 in D 9.85 in
Exceptional Pair of Brass Table Lights by Marcel Breuer, Paris Exhibition, 1925
By Marcel Breuer
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
stamped on the base: Marcel Breuer Exposition Paris, 1925.
Brass
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H 16.54 in W 7.88 in D 5.12 in
Marcel Breuer Table Lamp, Paris Exposition 1925, Made in Germany, Nickel
By Marcel Breuer
Located in Pambio Noranco, CH
Designed by Marcel Breuer for the International Exposition of Modern Industrial and Decorative Arts
Brass, Nickel
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H 22.45 in W 5.52 in D 9.45 in
Marcel Breuer Nickel Table Lamp, Exposition Paris 1925, Made in Germany
By Marcel Breuer
Located in Pambio Noranco, CH
Rare table lamp design by Marcel Breuer for the exposition of Paris, 1925. Made in Germany
Nickel
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H 19.69 in W 6.3 in D 7.88 in
Marcel Breuer Nickel Lamp, Exposition of Paris 1925, Made in Germany
By Marcel Breuer
Located in Pambio Noranco, CH
Beautiful nickel table lamp, design by Marcel Breuer for the Exposition of Paris of 1925. Made in
Nickel
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H 19.69 in W 7.88 in D 6.3 in
Marcel Breuer Table Lamp, Nickel, Exposition of Paris 1925, Made in Germany
By Marcel Breuer
Located in Pambio Noranco, CH
Beautiful nickel table lamp made for the Exposition of Paris of the 1925. Designed by Marcel
Nickel
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
$4,900 / item
H 34 in W 86 in D 42 in
Custom Made Modern English Arm Sofa in Performance Linen Velvet - 86"
By Bloom Home Inc
Located in Old Town Orange, CA
This beautiful english arm sofa has a modern twist, with its single bench cushion, and beautiful curved apron sides. It’s upholstered in a Linen Velvet Performance fabric. Shown in...
Linen, Velvet
Solana Wall Sconces
By Blueprint Lighting
Located in Westport, CT
The "Solana" wall mount sconce or reading light is strongly influenced by Scandinavian, Danish, French, and Italian Mid-Century Modernism. The walnut back plate (available in natural...
Enamel, Brass
$2,074 / item
H 80.7 in Dm 6.7 in
Tito Agnoli Model #387 'Agnoli' Floor Lamp in Nickel and Travertine for Oluce
By Oluce, Tito Agnoli
Located in Glendale, CA
Tito Agnoli model #387 'Agnoli' floor lamp in nickel and travertine for Oluce. Designed in 1954, this ultra-refined lamp is now considered to be a key forerunner of minimalism. Exe...
Travertine, Metal, Nickel
Crackle Textured Handmade Ceramic Mushroom Lamp, Blue
By Streicher Goods, Ethan Streicher
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Every mushroom lamp is hand-made and hand-painted by Ethan Streicher, the founder and designer behind the Streicher Goods brand in Brooklyn, NY. The lamp's silhouette is simple and c...
Brass
LUdown Cylinder Flush Mount
By Lumfardo Luminaires
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The LUdown cylinder flush mount fixture by Lumfardo Luminaires is part of our contemporary collection. Available In patinated unlacquerd brass or aged silver and steel with (1) E26 m...
Steel, Brass, Gold, Silver
$1,155Sale Price / item|30% Off
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
Wrought Iron Martini Table, Large
Located in London, GB
A wrought iron martini table, hand made in England to a 1940s original design. Shown here finished with a natural bronze patina. Available in bronze or black finishes. Large: 31 c...
Wrought Iron
Pair of armchairs by Jacques Adnet
By Jacques Adnet, Compagnie Des Arts Français
Located in Uccle, BE
Pair of armchairs with armrests covered in saddle stitched leather by Jacques Adnet, Compagnie des Arts Français. Pair of low armchairs with armrests covered in black saddle stitched...
Brass
The Salon, Custom Made Belgian Linen Armchair
Located in Jesteburg, DE
Introducing the home collection. A small selection of timeless Flemish designs made by hand for us in a small third generation workshop in Belgium. Has been used by many influent...
Linen
Pair of Armchairs, Upholstered in Pure Alpaca
By Maison Gouffé
Located in Lewes, East Sussex
Superb pair of Jean Royere / Maison Gouffe style armchairs, upholstered in pure Alpaca. High quality hand-made beech frames and newly upholstered in a beige / stone premium 100% alpa...
Alpaca, Beech
$16,800 / set
H 35 in W 30 in D 30 in
Maurizio Tempestini, Lounge Chairs, Iron, Maple, Fabric, USA, 1950s
By Maurizio Tempestini, John Salterini
Located in High Point, NC
A pair of cast iron, dark-stained maple and white fabric lounge chairs designed by Maurizio Tempestini and produced by Salterini, USA, c. 1950s. Seat Height (inches): 15” Arm Heigh...
Iron
$52,000
H 121.66 in W 149.81 in D 14.18 in
Mogens Koch for Rud Radmussen Substantial Modular Library in Pine
By Rud Rasmussen, Mogens Koch
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Mogens Koch for Rud Rasmussen, modular bookcase or library, pine, Denmark, design 1928 Intriguing and substantial modular library by Danish designer Mogens Koch. This piece is cons...
Pine
Mamun Bedside
Located in Singapore, SG
Mamun, which translates to trustworthy in Arabic, was designed by Studio Kallang in 2021 as a playful take on both midcentury and brutalist forms. Designer Faezah Shaharuddin intende...
Teak
$65,000
H 55.12 in W 75.2 in D 20.08 in
Charlotte Perriand "Le Courbolay” Cupboard for Atelier Jean Prouvè, 1958
By Jean Prouvé, Charlotte Perriand
Located in Lonigo, Veneto
Charlotte Perriand cupboard from the building “Le Courbolay” for Fabrications Ateliers Jean Prouvè, mahogany and lacquering, France, 1958. This Charlotte Perriand cupboard is charac...
Mahogany
Unique Sconce by Diego M
By Diego Mardegan
Located in Saint-Ouen (PARIS), FR
Amazing wall light with 2 arms in brass and off-white lacquered metal. Numbered and signed piece by the artist Diego M. Italy, 2022.
Metal, Brass
The architect and designer Marcel Breuer was one the 20th century’s most influential and innovative adherents of modernism. A member of the Bauhaus faculty, Breuer — like such colleagues as the architects Walter Gropius and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and the artists and art theoreticians László Moholy-Nagy and Josef Albers — left Europe in the 1930s to champion the new design philosophy and its practice in the United States.
Born in Hungary, Breuer became a Bauhaus student in 1920 and quickly impressed Gropius, the German school’s founder, with his aptitude for furniture design. His early work was influenced by the minimalist Dutch design movement De Stijl — in particular the work of architect Gerrit Rietveld.
In 1925, while he was head of the Bauhaus furniture workshop, Breuer realized his signature innovation: the use of lightweight tubular-steel frames for chairs, tables and sofas — a technique soon adopted by Mies and others. Breuer’s attention gradually shifted from design to architecture, and, at the urging of Gropius, he joined his mentor in 1937 on the faculty of Harvard and in an architectural practice.
In the 1940s, Breuer opened his own architectural office, and there his style evolved from geometric, glass-walled structures toward a kind of hybrid architecture — seen in numerous Breuer houses in New England — that pairs bases of local fieldstone with sleek, wood-framed modernist upper floors. In his later, larger commissions, Breuer worked chiefly with reinforced concrete and stone, as seen in his best-known design, the brutalist inverted ziggurat built in New York in 1966 as the home of the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Breuer’s most famous furniture pieces are those made of tubular steel, which include the Wassily chair — named after Wassily Kandinsky and recognizable for its leather-strap seating supports — and the caned Cesca chair.
Breuer also made several notable designs in molded plywood, including a chaise and nesting table for the British firm Isokon and a student furniture suite commissioned in 1938 for a dormitory at Bryn Mawr College. Whether in metal or wood, Breuer’s design objects are elegant and adaptable examples of classic modernist design — useful and appropriate in any environment.
Find vintage Marcel Breuer seating, storage cabinets and lighting on 1stDibs.
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.