Birgitte Due Madsen and Jonas Trampedach Moby 1 Khaki Table Lamp For Karakter
By Birgitte Due Madsen
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Birgitte Due Madsen , Jonas Trampedach, 2015 Moby 1 Khaki For Karakter Moby is an extraordinarily sculptural table lamp. Filled with intriguing contrasts, it balances a soft and com...
Acrylic, Rubber
Vintage Italian Ceramic Lamps Taupe
Located in Smyrna, GA
Beautiful large pair of Italian Ceramic lamps with applied plaster floral design. The lamp is a very rich TAUPE/BEIGE with applied flowers of IVORY. The lamps are 27 inches from tab...
Blown Glass
80s Rare Set of Vintage Postmodern Brutalist Hivo Van Teal Table Lamps
By Hivo Van Teal
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
80s Very Rare Set of Vintage Postmodern Memphis Geometric Distressed Glass & Gold Leaf Designer Hivo Van Teal Table Lamps - a Pair Extraordinary and Super Rare Pair of 80s Postmoder...
Metal, Gold Leaf
1950/60's Chalk Ware Bonsai Tree Lamp att. to Reglor of California c 1950's
By Reglor Of California
Located in New York, NY
Chic cast plaster table lamp made in the form of a stylized Bonsai tree, circa 1950's, attributed to Reglor of California, unsigned. This example is in good, original, clean and work...
Plaster, Paint
Saxon Crusader Robin Hood Chalkware Lamp by Continental Art Co., 1950s
By Continental Art Company
Located in New Orleans, LA
This mid-century Saxon crusader Robin Hood wood nymph themed chalk-ware figural table lamp.
Plaster, String, Cotton
Sailor Head Table Light signed by French Artist 1940s
Located in Hudson, NY
Sailor Head Table Light $4,200.00 Signed, French, 1940s portrait sculpture head of a sailor / Head is reclaimed and restored, hand-painted in matte Farrow and Ball "Vardo" / Stepped,...
Brass
$2,360Sale Price / set|20% Off
Large Pair of Hollywood Regency Neoclassical White Lacquered Draped Urn Lamps
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Large Pair of Hollywood Regency Neoclassical White Lacquered Draped Urn Lamps USA, Circa 1950s Add a touch of quiet glamour to your living space with a touch of elegance through t...
Plaster
$1,000Sale Price|20% Off
Fantastic Reglor of California Male Fencer Lamp with Original Shade, circa 1951
By Reglor Of California
Located in Pemberton, NJ
All original vintage rare Reglor of California lamp, featuring a gorgeous lime green/ brown male fencer. Signed Reglor of California and is dated 1951 and includes an original Reglor...
Plaster
$2,368Sale Price / set|20% Off
"Vintage Architectural Element Lamps, Blackened Finish, Medieval Style, Pair"
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of Vintage architectural element lamps, black finish. Standard Single Edison Socket 25 Watts
Cement, Stone, Brass
A Pair of Carole Stupell Rock Crystal Lamps With Original Shades ca' 1950's
By Carole Stupell
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
An outstanding pair of a rock crystal lamps by Carole Stupell, ca' 1950's. Original biomorphic shades, stepped bases, rock crystal finials.
Rock Crystal
Two Rare French Surrealist Plaster Floor Lamps by Jean-Charles Moreux
By Jean-Charles Moreux
Located in New York, NY
2 plaster standing lamps by Jean-Charles Moreux in a modern neo- Baroque spirit with an Amphora/urn resting on twist form columns. Moreux was a master of the neo-Baroque and surreali...
Plaster
$595 / item
'The Muse' Portable Lamp for Tala in Brass
By TALA
Located in Los Angeles, CA
'The Muse' Portable Lamp for Tala in Brass. Recalling the promise and grandeur of the British pleasure garden, The Muse mixes the classic lantern aesthetic with ultra-modern technol...
Metal, Brass
'The Muse' Portable Lamp for Tala in Candlenut White
By TALA
Located in Los Angeles, CA
'The Muse' Portable Lamp for Tala in Candlenut White. Recalling the promise and grandeur of the British pleasure garden, The Muse mixes the classic lantern aesthetic with ultra-mode...
Metal
'The Muse' Portable Lamp for Tala in Hackles Black
By TALA
Located in Los Angeles, CA
'The Muse' Portable Lamp for Tala in Hackles Black. Recalling the promise and grandeur of the British pleasure garden, The Muse mixes the classic lantern aesthetic with ultra-modern...
Metal
'The Muse' Portable Lamp for Tala in Pomona Red
By TALA
Located in Los Angeles, CA
'The Muse' Portable Lamp for Tala in Pomona Red. Recalling the promise and grandeur of the British pleasure garden, The Muse mixes the classic lantern aesthetic with ultra-modern te...
Metal
Pair of Woven Pottery Lamps Attributed to Samuel Marx
By Samuel Marx
Located in Kilmarnock, VA
Fresh from a distinguished Chicago estate, this exceptional pair of woven pottery lamps is attributed to the visionary American architect and interior designer Samuel Marx, dating to...
Brass
'The Muse' Portable Lamp for Tala in Pleasure Garden Green
By TALA
Located in Los Angeles, CA
'The Muse' Portable Lamp for Tala in Pleasure Garden Green. Recalling the promise and grandeur of the British pleasure garden, The Muse mixes the classic lantern aesthetic with ultr...
Metal
'The Muse' Portable Lamp in Selvedge Blue by Farrow & Ball for Tala
By TALA
Located in Los Angeles, CA
'The Muse' Portable Lamp in Selvedge Blue by Farrow & Ball for Tala Recalling the promise and grandeur of the British pleasure garden, The Muse mixes the classic lantern aesthet...
Metal
Birgitte Due Madsen , Jonas Trampedach Set of Two Moby Lamps For Karakter
By Birgitte Due Madsen
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Birgitte Due Madsen , Jonas Trampedach, 2015 Moby 1 and 2 White For Karakter Moby is an extraordinarily sculptural table lamp. Filled with intriguing contrasts, it balances a soft a...
Acrylic, Rubber
Spectacular Pair of Stippled Porcelain and Brass Lamps, Italy, circa 1960
Located in Atlanta, GA
These magnificent lamps are shipped as photographed and described in the narrative. They are custom built using materials of the highest quality and are shipped complete with the new...
Brass
$1,203Sale Price / set|29% Off
Pair of Large Brown Gold and Black Brutalist Lamps with Pleated Shades
Located in Chattanooga, TN
Bold is the operative word. The large table lamps are made of plaster but mimic cork, hammered metal, and wood.
Ceramic
Moby 1 by Birgitte Due Madsen & Jonas Trampedach. 2015
By Birgitte Due Madsen, Jonas Trampedach
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Moby 1 by Birgitte Due Madsen & Jonas Trampedach. 2015 Moby is an extraordinarily sculptural table lamp. Filled with intriguing contrasts, it balances a soft and comforting light wit...
Acrylic
Moby 1 by Birgitte Due Madsen & Jonas Trampedach. 2015
By Birgitte Due Madsen, Jonas Trampedach
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Moby 1 by Birgitte Due Madsen & Jonas Trampedach. 2015 Moby is an extraordinarily sculptural table lamp. Filled with intriguing contrasts, it balances a soft and comforting light wit...
Acrylic
Birgitte Due Madsen , Jonas Trampedach Moby 1 and 2 White For Karakter
By Birgitte Due Madsen
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Birgitte Due Madsen , Jonas Trampedach, 2015 Moby 1 White For Karakter Moby is an extraordinarily sculptural table lamp. Filled with intriguing contrasts, it balances a soft and com...
Acrylic, Rubber
Birgitte Due Madsen , Jonas Trampedach Moby 1 and 2 White For Karakter
By Birgitte Due Madsen
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Birgitte Due Madsen , Jonas Trampedach, 2015 Moby 1 and 2 White For Karakter Moby is an extraordinarily sculptural table lamp. Filled with intriguing contrasts, it balances a soft a...
Acrylic, Rubber
Birgitte Due Madsen , Jonas Trampedach Moby 1 and 2 White For Karakter
By Birgitte Due Madsen
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Birgitte Due Madsen , Jonas Trampedach, 2015 Moby 1 and 2 White For Karakter Moby is an extraordinarily sculptural table lamp. Filled with intriguing contrasts, it balances a soft a...
Acrylic, Rubber
Birgitte Due Madsen , Jonas Trampedach, 2015 Moby 1 White For Karakter
By Birgitte Due Madsen
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Birgitte Due Madsen , Jonas Trampedach, 2015 Moby 1 White For Karakter Moby is an extraordinarily sculptural table lamp. Filled with intriguing contrasts, it balances a soft and com...
Acrylic, Rubber
Abalone Library Lamp in Wrapped Papercord and Leather with Seashell Shade
By Tennant New York
Located in Brooklyn, NY
“Venus favors the bold.” —Ovid The Abalone Library Lamp is the 11th release from the Venus Collection, a whimsical family of handmade fixtures inspired by the Surrealists and natura...
Brass
Column Pedestal Plaster Stand or Drinks Table, Neoclassical Style, Late-20th C
Located in New York, NY
A glazed plaster Grecian Ionic order column pedestal stand or drinks table, in the Neoclassical design style, circa mid to late-20th century.
Plaster
Pair of Fenton Art Glass and Marble Hurricane Table Lamps
By Fenton Art Glass Company 1
Located in Germantown, MD
A pair of Mid Century vintage Fenton "Gone With the Wind" lamps in pink custard satin glass with a cabbage rose / poppy pattern. The lamps feature intricate ruffled glass shades and...
Plaster
Coffee table in enamelled lava, by Robert et Jean Cloutier, France, circa 1958
By Robert and Jean Cloutier
Located in Paris, FR
Rare coffee table in lava enamelled with the famous Cloutier red enamel, decorated in recess with an ideogram. The top simply rests on the lacquered iron base, and can be used as a w...
Lava, Iron
Hand Painted Monumental Serenity Plaster Wall Sconce, homage Matisse
By Hannah Woodhouse
Located in London, GB
She designed and made custom wall and table lamps with incredible attention to detail.
Plaster
Handmade Organic Modern Monumental Shell Wall Light/Sconce, White Plaster
Located in London, GB
She designed and made custom wall and table lamps with incredible attention to detail.
Plaster
Monumental Serenity Organic Modern Wall Sconce/Wall Light, Smooth White Plaster
By Hannah Woodhouse
Located in London, GB
She designed and made custom wall and table lamps with incredible attention to detail.
Plaster
Organic Modern Contemporary Shell Wall Light/Wall Sconce in White Plaster
By Hannah Woodhouse
Located in London, GB
She designed and made custom wall and table lamps with incredible attention to detail.
Plaster
Curl Organic Modern Wall Sconce / Wall Light in Soft White Plaster
By Hannah Woodhouse
Located in London, GB
She designed and made custom wall and table lamps with incredible attention to detail.
Plaster
Mini Serenity, Contemporary Organic Modern White Plaster Wall Sconce or Light
By Hannah Woodhouse
Located in London, GB
She designed and made custom wall and table lamps with incredible attention to detail.
Plaster
PRESS SAMPLE: Shell Plaster Wall Sconce. Photographed 1x, reconditioned as new.
By Hannah Woodhouse
Located in London, GB
She designed and made custom wall and table lamps with incredible attention to detail.
Plaster
Abstract Modern Musician Sculpture by Austin Productions / Table Lamp Base
By Austin Productions, (after) Pablo Picasso
Located in Chicago, IL
Abstract Modern Musician Sculpture by Austin Productions. Sculpture has a hairline damage weak spot. Needs to be handled carefully as it flexes slightly. It almost seems like the ha...
Plaster
Sculptors Modelling Stand Tripod Base Adjustable Rotating Tiranti Vintage, 1950
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
- This sculptor's modelling stand is usable and in working order - It also creates an atmospheric aesthetic as a display stand for sculpture, object or lamp. - It has been used fo...
Metal
J'aimes Contemporary Wall Light, Textured Faux Bronze, Antung silk shade.
By Hannah Woodhouse
Located in London, GB
She designed and made custom wall and table lamps with incredible attention to detail.
Silk, Acrylic, Plaster
Jar, Jugendstil, Art Nouveau, Liberty, Foundry: Eug. Blot Paris, Design: JOUANT
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
In 1904 the first Jansen branch outside Paris was established in Buenos Aires, as the Argentinean clientele demanded a large amount of furniture, from the end of the 19th century to ...
Metal
American Plaster Harlequin Balustrade White & Blue Painted Table Lamp
Located in Queens, NY
Mid-Century American "Harlequin Balustrade" plaster table lamp sculpted in spindle form and painted blue, gold and white, tapering toward the top with an extended stem, ending in a c...
Metal, Brass
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.
Designer Eva Menz wants the light to "evoke curiosity and a sense of wonder."
Working with resin, a tricky material, has created moments of failure — and enlightenment.
Commissioned for the lakeside villa of a Finnish industrialist, it illuminated visits with dignitaries.
Across New York, there’s no shortage of statement lighting on view.
The 1920s design is a thrilling combination of saturated colors, ancient motifs and modern aesthetics.
Designed by a giant of Swedish lighting, the large-scale fixtures bring major drama.
The alluring pendant light exemplifies the designer’s winsome mid-career work.
Before founding the Memphis Group, Sottsass bent the rules of lighting design with the wonderfully wavy Cometa.