Mid Century Tripod Table Lamp
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Metal, Brass
Vintage 1950s Czech Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Metal
Vintage 1960s Czech Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Metal
Vintage 1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Teak
Mid-20th Century Austrian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Brass
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Brass, Iron
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Brass
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Metal
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Metal
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Brass
Vintage 1960s French Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Walnut
Vintage 1950s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Brass
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Metal, Brass
20th Century Unknown Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Gold, Bronze
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Brass
Vintage 1960s Austrian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Brass
Vintage 1960s German Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Metal
2010s French Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Aluminum, Brass, Steel
2010s French Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Aluminum, Brass, Steel
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Metal, Aluminum, Chrome
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Brass
2010s French Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Aluminum, Brass, Steel
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Metal
Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Metal
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Metal
Vintage 1950s German Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Brass
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Brass
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps
Brass
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Brass
Mid-20th Century English Industrial Table Lamps
Brass
Vintage 1950s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Enamel, Metal
Vintage 1950s Spanish Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Metal, Brass
2010s European Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Aluminum
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Table Lamps
Brass
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Metal
Mid-20th Century French Table Lamps
Metal
Late 20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Iron
2010s Danish Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Glass
2010s Danish Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Glass
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Brass
Vintage 1960s French Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Metal
Vintage 1960s Scandinavian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Metal
20th Century Swedish Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Brass
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Metal, Brass
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Brass
Vintage 1960s German Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Brass
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Brass
Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Metal
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Metal, Bronze
2010s Danish Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Glass
2010s French Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Steel, Aluminum
Vintage 1950s Austrian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Brass
Vintage 1960s European Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Aluminum, Brass
Vintage 1960s European Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Metal
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Metal, Brass
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Metal, Brass
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Brass
Vintage 1960s European Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Metal, Nickel
20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Brass
Vintage 1950s Czech Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Metal
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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 American 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.
Postwar American architects and designers were animated by new ideas and new technology. The lean, functionalist “International Style” architecture of Le Corbusier and Bauhaus eminences such as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius had been promoted in the United States during the ’30s 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, respectively, pieces such as the La Chaise and the Womb chair. George Nelson and his design team created Bubble lamp shades using a new translucent polymer skin. Harry Bertoia and Isamu Noguchi devised chairs and tables built of wire mesh and wire struts. Materials were re-purposed: the Danish-born designer Jens Risom created a line of chairs that used surplus parachute straps for webbed seats and backrests. The Risom lounge chair was among the first pieces of furniture commissioned and produced by legendary manufacturer Knoll, a chief influence 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.
As the demand for casual, uncluttered furnishings grew, more mid-century 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, blonde-wood furniture — and Milo Baughman, who espoused a West Coast aesthetic in lushly upholstered chairs and sofas with angular steel frames.
As the collection of vintage mid-century modern chairs, dressers, coffee tables and other furniture 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
Perfect for lighting your nightstand or reading nook, table lamps play an integral role in styling an inviting room. A well-crafted antique or vintage table lamp does 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. 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 during the Art Deco movement, originating 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 an Art Deco table lamp provide an air of luxury and sophistication that never goes out of style.
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 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.
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