Rustic American Mission Style Slag Glass Table Lamp
Located in Queens, NY
American Rustic Mission style (1920s) stained oak table desk lamp with 2 pedestals supporting a
Early 20th Century American Mission Table Lamps
Glass, Oak
Rustic American Mission Style Slag Glass Table Lamp
Located in Queens, NY
American Rustic Mission style (1920s) stained oak table desk lamp with 2 pedestals supporting a
Glass, Oak
Signed Karl Barry Mission Style Desk Lamp
By Karl Barry
Located in Mobile, AL
Late 20th century signed Karl Barry Mission style desk lamp with wood and marble base. Shade
Marble, Copper
$1,395
H 21 in W 11.75 in D 11.75 in
Arts & Crafts Mission Oak with Carmel Colored Slag Glass Table Lamp C 1910
By W. Brown
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Fantastic simple & elegant arts and crafts mission Oak desk table lamp. Beautiful Carmel Colored Slag Glass in a quarter sawn oak lamp frame. Perfectly proportioned and in excellent ...
Brass
Handel Cherry Blossom Leaded Glass Lamp
Located in Toledo, OH
This stunning Handel Cherry Blossom leaded glass lamp is circa 1910. The 12" wide x 6" tall shade is decorated in pink flowers with multiple shades of green. The bronze patinaed base...
Bronze
Peony Leaded Slag Glass Table Lamp #523 by Wilkinson
By Wilkinsons
Located in Toledo, OH
A stunning leaded slag glass table lamp by Wilkinson. This beautiful lamp features blooming and budding peonies flowers. Good wiring with a new cloth cord. The base has a great patin...
Slag Glass
Art Nouveau Slag Glass Table Lamp
Located in Peekskill, NY
This is a nice sized lamp with a 17 inch diameter. The base is heavy bronze with with beautiful clean lines. The shade and slag glass are free of cracks or chips. Each glass panel ha...
Bronze
Tiffany Studios New York "Damascene Harp" Desk Lamp
By Louis Comfort Tiffany, Tiffany Studios
Located in New York, NY
This desk lamp by Tiffany Studios, dating from circa 1910, features a damascene favrile glass shade on an adjustable patinated bronze harp base. With dichroic amber-golden and green ...
Bronze
1900's Antique Bradley & Hubbard Mission Green Slag and Cast Iron Lamp
By Bradley & Hubbard
Located in Louisville, KY
If you're a Mission period enthusiast or looking for that Arts and Crafts piece that finishes the room off with an interesting vibe, this is your lamp. Designed and crafted by Bradle...
Wrought Iron
Antique Arts & Crafts Two-Tone Slag Glass Lamp, C1910
Located in Big Flats, NY
Antique Arts & Crafts Two-Tone Slag Glass Lamp, C1910. Measures - 20"H x 14.75"Diam. An antique Arts and Crafts table lamp offers dome form shade with two-tone bent slag gl...
Metal
Mica Lamp Co. Copper And Mica Lamp
Located in Norwood, NJ
Copper and mica arts and crafts style lamp and shade made by the Mica Lamp Co., Glendale, Ca. base and shade with makers mark. Shade with serial number. Round base and shade with thr...
Copper
Copper and Mica Lamp
Located in Atlanta, GA
A very fine and decorative copper lamp featuring a copper and mica shade. Dimensions: H 25", D 25", 4 lights. NI520.
Copper, Other
$1,695
H 22 in W 14.75 in D 14.75 in
Arts & Crafts Mission Oak Table Lamp with Green Slag Glass Late 19thC
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Spectacular and early version Arts & Crafts Mission table lamp, was an oil lamp and professionally converted to electric with the utmost care and respect to the piece. Beautiful gree...
Brass
1920s Arts and Crafts Copper Table Lamp With Mica Shade
Located in Tarrytown, NY
1920s Arts and Crafts Copper Table Lamp With Mica Shade Lighter in overall weight as this is copper and thin mica stone Hand-hammered copper is stunning on this Arts & Crafts lamp Ve...
Stone, Copper
American Mission Iron Slag Glass Table Lamp
Located in Queens, NY
American Mission black iron table lamp having a 6 sided shade with green slag glass cut out design supported on 6 scrolls and trimmed with metal studs.
Iron
American Mission Style Beige Table Lamp
Located in Queens, NY
American Mission style table lamp with a 3-panel mica and metal shade supported on a brown patinated tapered base.
Metal
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.