French Mid-Century Floor Lamp by Guillerme & Chambron
By Guillerme et Chambron
Located in Antwerpen, BE
Characterful French mid-century floor lamp by Guillerme et Chambron, crafted in solid oak with ceramic details and produced in France during the 1950s–1960s.
Oak
Mid-Century Floor Lamp by Kamenicky Senov, 1960’s
By Kamenicky Senov
Located in Praha, CZ
Made in Czechoslovakia Made of glass, glazed ceramic, steel 2xE27 or E26 socket New cabling Re-polished Fully functional Original condition.
Steel
Rare Mid century modern Danish ceramic floor lamp, 1960's
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Rare Danish mid century Floor lamp. Have tried investigating possible designers, but havent been able to find any. Its really a rare jewel. Its in a good vintage condition, but in ne...
Ceramic
Mid-Century Danish Minimalist Tripod Floor Lamp, 1960s
Located in Hamburg, DE
Danish mid century floor lamp with a characteristic three-legged foot. A minimalist design. The shade shows a simple cylinder shape and is covered with a light parchment. The dimens...
Ceramic, Plastic
Mid century ceramic handmade floor lamp 1960s Germany
By Vintage Specialties
Located in Gaggenau, DE
Mid century ceramic handmade floor lamp 1960s Germany rare and wonderful lamp made of hand made ceramic base and fabric stitched shade in wide film design and lighting distribution ...
Ceramic, Fabric
Accolay Floor Lamp, Ceramic & Resin, Mid-Century Modern, 1960s
By Accolay Pottery
Located in Antwerp, BE
Important double-light accolay lamp. Ceramic base, raffia lampshade encased in resin. Shade: height 89 cm, shade bottom diameter 30 cm. Total height with shade: 133 cm.
Ceramic, Resin, Rope
Rare Mid Century Modern Atomic Floor Lamp with Ceramic Flowerpot
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Circa 1950. We offer this Rare Mid Century Modern Atomic Floor Lamp with Ceramic Flowerpot, original shades working in great vintage conditions.
Iron
Ceramic Vintage Mid Century Modern Floor Lamp Pieter Groeneveldt, Netherlands
By Georges Pelletier
Located in Vienna, AT
Ceramic vintage mid century modern floor lamp by Pieter Groeneveldt, 1960s, Netherlands.
Ceramic, Textile
$1,858Sale Price|25% Off
Mid-Century Modern Handmade Ceramic Floor Lamp by Sejer Keramik
By Sejer Keramik
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Tall, imposing brutalist Scandinavian modern handmade chamotte ceramic floor or table lamp. Organic color mix glaze in white, grey and cedar on the rustic wide base bottle shape with...
Ceramic, Stoneware, Pottery
Mid-20th Century American Ceramic Table Lamp
Located in Chicago, IL
This mid-20th century American ceramic table lamp embodies the perfect blend of vintage charm and modern functionality. The lamp features a stunning matte brown glaze, elegantly cont...
Ceramic, Linen
Mid Century, Space Age 'Fat Lava' Ceramic Floor Lamp 1960s
Located in Herentals, BE
Large floor lamp in caramel-colored fat lava ceramic with beige and brown accents. The lamp has a light beige shade with a border at the bottom and top in the same shades as the sha...
Ceramic, Fabric
Floor organic modern ceramic Lamp, mid-century brutalist wabi sabi lighting
Located in Vilnius, LT
Product name: NAVAZI Category: Lighting, Decoration Type: Decoration, Floor lamp, Wall lamp, Pendant, Table lamp Material: Ceramic/glass base, frosted glass, textile cable Light sour...
Ceramic, Glass
Italian Ceramic Flower Floor Lamp
Located in Antwerp, BE
Italian ceramic floor lamp with flower shade. Height:125 cm. Diameter:30 cm.
Ceramic, Fabric
French Ceramic Floor Lamp, 1960s
Located in Paris, IDF
This is a beautiful and tall ceramic lamp signed P. This is an early 1960s work with beautiful contrast and presence. Matched here with a beautiful rattan shade with brown strapping,...
Ceramic
Mid 20th Century Floor Lamp by Viggo Kyhn
By Viggo Kyhn
Located in Allerum, SE
20th century floor lamp by Viggo Kyhn (1923-1989). Glazed stoneware with an brass stem. Engraved signature under the base. Denmark. 1960's
Brass
1970's Ceramic Floor Lamp
Located in Brecht, BE
For lovers of vintage lighting, this French orange ceramic floorlamp, still with its original lampshade. Color your world.
Ceramic, Fabric
$1,925Sale Price|65% Off
1950s Floor Lamp with Ceramic Birds
Located in Brooklyn, NY
1950s floor lamp with ceramic birds. Located in NY. Original condition. Needs restoration.
Metal
Danish Mid-Century Modern Circular Stoneware Floor Lamp, 1960s.
Located in Asaa, DK
Danish Mid-Century Modern Circular Stoneware Floor Lamp, 1960s.
Ceramic
Italian Ceramic Floor Lamp with Flowers
Located in Antwerp, BE
Elegant Italian ceramic floor lamp. Measures: Height 125 cm. Diameter 30 cm.
Ceramic, Fabric
Large Mid-Century Red Ceramic Lamp, 1950s
Located in Brussels, BE
Large mid-century red ceramic lamp - 1950s.
Ceramic
Huge Ceramic Floor Lamp by Rigmor Nielsen for Søholm Denmark 1950s Mid-Century
By Rigmor Nielsen, Søholm Stentøj
Located in Silkeborg, Silkeborg
Huge conical hand painted ceramic floor lamp by the Danish artist Rigmor Nielsen for Søholm, Bornholm, Denmark. The ceramic foot is decorated with a flower motif on an off-white glaz...
Brass
Tripod ceramic floor lamp, France 1960s
Located in Brussels, BE
Metal and ceramic tripod Floor Lamp: a discovery from the 1960s. Featuring a metal tripod base, this lamp boasts two plant holders or cups and an ashtray holder crafted in black and...
Metal
Vintage Danish Ceramic Floor Lamp, 1970s
Located in Asaa, DK
Vintage Danish Ceramic floor lamp 1970s Large scandinavian modern floor lamp by Jørgen Tjelberg Hansen. One of a kind made by hand. Tall round body with flared bottom and top. Beaut...
Ceramic
Italian Modern Ceramic And Marble Floor Lamp
Located in Houston, TX
Italian Modern Ceramic And Marble Floor Lamp. Offered is an unusual Italian mid century modern glazed ceramic floor lamp on a marble base.
Marble, Brass
Pair of Mid-Century Raymor Italian Chrome Goose-neck Floor Lamps
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Stylish and rare pair of midcentury modernist Italian floor lamps by Raymor. The lamps feature gracefully arched gooseneck style columns. Constructed from steel with a chromed finish...
Steel, Iron, Chrome
Extraordinary "Bubble" ceramic floor lamp, Kaiser Leuchten
By Kaiser Leuchten
Located in Neuss, NW
Rare bubble floor lamp by Kaiser Leuchten from the 1960s. Handcrafted glazed ceramic base in green shades with an new lampshade. Quality Features: very good workmanship high-quality...
Ceramic
Gordon Martz Floor Lamp w Mosaic Ceramic Tile Table
By Gordon & Jane Martz
Located in Chicago, IL
Gordon Martz floor lamp Measures: 60" height to top of wood finial. 19.75 height to top of table.
Ceramic
Brown and Taupe Glazed Ceramic Floor Lamp, Germany
Located in Rijssen, NL
A typical way to finish ceramic pottery in mid-century West-Germany. With a custom made lamp shade by René Houben.
Ceramic, Pottery
$1,770Sale Price|25% Off
1950s Floor Lamp with Blue Ceramic Figure
Located in Paris, FR
Wrought and gilded iron floor lamp, the stem decorated with a blue ceramic figure and three blue and green small bowls. It is resting on three scrolled feet. circa 1950. Dimensi...
Wrought Iron, Iron
Italian Ceramic Vase Flowers Floor Lamp
Located in Brussels, BE
Italian ceramic vase flowers floor lamp.
Metal
Ceramic Floor Lamp by Traudl Brunnquell, Germany, 1970s
By Traudl Brunnquell
Located in SAINT-OUEN, FR
Floor lamp or large table lamp sculpture in ceramic terracotta by the German manufacture artist Traudl Brunnquell. Work with normal E26/27 bulbs, gold cap bulbs in 240 volt are not i...
Ceramic, Terracotta
Vintage Ceramic Floor or Table Lamp Orange Glaze
Located in Verviers, BE
Dramatic Ceramic floor lamp orange glaze with a narrow neck In excellent condition and in full working order having recently been re-wired and provided with new fittings E27 And sa...
Ceramic
Walter Gerhards Ceramic Floor lamp stand 1960s Germany
By Walter Gerhards
Located in Den Haag, NL
Big Floor Lamp base made by Walter Gerhards KG in the 1960s. Model number 1020-40 with relief decor. Rare model with Aztec inspired motif on both sides. Good condition, no damages. ...
Ceramic
1960s Italian Ceramic Lotus Flower Faux Bamboo Floor Lamp
Located in New York, NY
Italian ceramic faux bamboo and lotus flower floor lamp, with lily pad base.. Lotus blossoms encircle the lamp column as if growing up from the base. Italy, circa 1960s.
Ceramic
Vintage Danish Ceramic Floor Lamp by Tjelberg, 1970s
Located in Asaa, DK
Vintage Danish ceramic floor lamp by Tjelberg, 1970s. Large Mid-Century Modern ceramic floor lamp including shade, designed and manufactured by Jørgen Tjelberg Hansen, Denmark in th...
Ceramic
Green Ceramic Floor / Table Lamp, Kaiser Leuchten, Germany 1960s
By Jasba, Kaiser Leuchten
Located in Cork, IE
This mid-century modern floor lamp is in great condition and sure to be an eyecatcher in any household!
Ceramic
Italian Brass and Ceramic Floor Lamp by Victor Cerrato
Located in New York, NY
Italian brass and ceramic floor lamp by Victor Cerrato. Multi-colored glazed ceramic and trimmed in brass floor lamp.
Brass
Scheurich West-Germany Ceramic Horses Floor Lamp, circa 1970
By Scheurich Keramik
Located in Pijnacker, Zuid-Holland
Large Scheurich West-Germany floor lamp with red horses, 1970s. Designer: Unknown Manufacturer: Scheurich Country: West-Germany Date of design: circa 1970 Model: floor...
Ceramic
Danish Modern Decorative Ceramic Floor Lamp, Made in 1970s
Located in Odense, DK
Beautiful large ceramic floor lamp, made in Denmark by an unknown artist in 1970s. Nice various colors in high quality. A great vintage object that complementary the modern interior...
Ceramic
Jane and Gordon Martz Floor Lamp with Tile Table Mid Century Modern
By Gordon & Jane Martz, Marshall Studios
Located in Virginia Beach, VA
A 1960s floor lamp with integrated tile table top designed by Jane and Gordon Martz for Marshall Studios. Labeled with a Martz Pitcher logo on the plug. This Model WL4 lamp first app...
Ceramic, Mahogany
$1,793Sale Price|20% Off
Huge Mid-Century Modern Tilgmans Keramik Floor Lamp Original Shade Sweden, 1950s
By Tilgmans Keramik, Marian Zawadzki
Located in Bochum, NRW
Exceptional earthenware floor lamp made by Tilgmans Keramik, Sweden, early 1950s, design attributed to Marian Zawadzki. Large foot lamp richly decorated with a pair of deer to the fr...
Fabric, Ceramic
Huge Mid-Century Modern Bamboo, Brass & Rattan Arc Floor Lamp, Italy 1950s
Located in Nürnberg, Bayern
The floor lamp is really beautiful and decorative. A fantastic piece of craftsmanship. The lampshade has an incredible 70cm diameter. The lamp comes with 1x E27 / E26 Edison sc...
Brass
XXL Orange Ceramic FLoor Table Lamp, Lampshade by R. Houben, 1970
Located in Rijssen, NL
Heavy quality ceramic floor lamp, 1970s. This lamp base brings playful elegance and rich visual appeal to any interior. With its beautiful shape, it offers a unique presence. Thi...
Ceramic
$1,080Sale Price|70% Off
Floor Lamp Ceramic Top Stainless Steel Frame - ready to ship
By Filipe Ramos
Located in Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo
The Linha collection is a collaboration between Hannelore Freer and Filipe Ramos. The handbuilt ceramic tops are one-of-a-Kind art pieces made by Hannelore Freer at Greenwich House ...
Stainless Steel
$4,333Sale Price|20% Off
White Ceramic Floor Lamp by Mobach, Netherlands 1970s
By Mobach
Located in Hannover, DE
Take a look at this work of art created by a master craftsman, which is hard to find anywhere else in this world in terms of quality and design. Mobach stands for quality, design and...
Brass
Original Floor Lamps Iron and Ceramic, circa 1980, Signed "Ghilli"
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Floor lamps iron and ceramic circa 1980 signed "ghilli" sculpture piece, each piece unique and different could be sold as a pair or separate.
Metal
Brown Ceramic Floor Table Lamp with Custom Made Lampshade with Pattern
Located in Rijssen, NL
A brown ceramic floor lamp with circular pattern. Sculptural piece, made of handmade ceramic in warm tones, with a new custom made matching lampshade. The lamp is in perfect vintage...
Metal, Brass
Kaiser attributed Pair of Large Floor Lamps Ceramic Sea-Green glazed
By Kaiser
Located in London, GB
A rare and exceptional pair of large ceramic floor lamps, attributed to Kaiser Leuchten, Germany, 1970s.
Ceramic
Large Scale Oversized Vintage Floor Lamp in Bone White Ceramic
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A massive floor lamp from the 1970's with an 18 inch diameter. It features a bone white glazed color. Original shade is has kinks and damages, and will not be included in the sale.
Ceramic
A large German 1970s ceramic green glazed floor lamp by Kaiser Leutchens
By Kaiser Leuchten
Located in London, GB
A large German 1970s ceramic green glazed floor lamp by Kaiser Leutchens with pleated contemporary shade.
Ceramic
XXL Sapphire Blue Ceramic FLoor Table Lamp, Lampshade by R. Houben, 1970
Located in Rijssen, NL
Heavy quality ceramic floor lamp, 1970s. This lamp base brings playful elegance and rich visual appeal to any interior. With its beautiful shape, it offers a unique presence. This...
Ceramic
XL Multi Color Ceramic FLoor Table Lamp, Silk Lampshade by R. Houben
Located in Rijssen, NL
XL heavy quality ceramic table or floor lamp, 1970s. This lamp base brings refined elegance and rich visual appeal to any interior. With its beautiful shape, it offers a unique pr...
Ceramic
XL Multi Color Ceramic FLoor Table Lamp, Silk Lampshade by R. Houben
Located in Rijssen, NL
XL heavy quality ceramic table or floor lamp, 1970s. This lamp base brings refined elegance and rich visual appeal to any interior. With its beautiful shape, it offers a unique pr...
Ceramic
Elongated Ovoid Green Ceramic Floor Lamp with custom Lampshade by R. Houben
Located in Rijssen, NL
Heavy quality ceramic floor lamp or XXL table Lamp, 1970s. This lamp base brings refined elegance and rich visual appeal to any interior. With its beautiful shape, it offers a uniq...
Ceramic
XXL Elongated Ovoid Ceramic Table Floor Lamp with Lampshade by R. Houben
Located in Rijssen, NL
Heavy quality ceramic table lamp. This lamp base brings refined elegance and rich visual appeal to any interior. With its beautiful shape, it offers a unique presence. The lamp ha...
Ceramic
$3,040Sale Price|20% Off
Rare Tall MCM Danish Teak Glazed Ceramic Sculptural Floor Lamp Over
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
A fantastic rare Danish Mid-Century Modern/Scandinavian Modern teak and art pottery/ceramic floor lamp with the original conical fabric shade.
Teak, Ceramic, Fabric
Floor Lamp Gio Ponti attributed, Bronze Stem, Inserts Ceramic Sesto Fiorentino
By Gio Ponti
Located in Vigonza, Padua
Elegant precious floor lamp with bronze structure vith inserts by Ceramiche Artistiche Sesto Fiorentino, hand decorated, Gio Ponti attributed. Number three lights, with overhauled ...
Bronze
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.
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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