New Wave Optic Wall Lamp Smoke
By Marie Burgos Design
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Wall Light Sconce Plug-In Flush Mount A stunning modern wall sconce designed for both residential
Blown Glass
New Wave Optic Wall Lamp Clear
By Design By Us
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Wall Light Sconce Plug-In Flush Mount A stunning modern wall sconce designed for both residential
Glass
New Wave Optic Wall XL Opal
By Design By Us
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Light Plug-In Flush Mount. Stunning modern wall light sconces for residential and commercial spaces
Metal
New Wave Optic Wall Sconce XL Rose
By Design By Us
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Wall Light Sconce Plug-In Flush Mount A stunning modern wall sconce designed for both residential
Metal
New Wave Optic Wall Opal with Eyeball
By Design By Us
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Wall Light Sconce Plug-In Flush Mount A stunning modern wall sconce designed for both residential
Metal
New Wave Optic Wall Sconce XL Smoke
By Design By Us
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Wall Light Sconce Plug-In Flush Mount A stunning modern wall sconce designed for both residential
Metal
New Wave Optic Wall Light Sconce Smoke
By Design By Us
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Wall Light Sconce Plug-In Flush Mount A stunning modern wall sconce designed for both residential
Metal
New Wave Optic Wall XL Opal with Eyeball
By Design By Us
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Wall Light Sconce Plug-In Flush Mount A stunning modern wall sconce designed for both residential
Metal
$1,239Sale Price / item|20% Off
H 10 in W 10 in D 7 in
New Wave Optic Wall Light Sconce Smoke with Eyeball
By Design By Us
Located in Brooklyn, NY
1 - Light Plug-In Flush Mount. Stunning modern wall light sconces for residential and commercial
Metal
$1,720Sale Price / item|20% Off
H 15 in W 15 in D 8 in
New Wave Optic Wall Sconce XL Rose with Eyeball
By Design By Us
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Wall Light Sconce Plug-In Flush Mount A stunning modern wall sconce designed for both residential
Metal
$1,239Sale Price / item|20% Off
H 10 in W 10 in D 7 in
New Wave Optic Wall Light Sconce Rose with Eyeball
By Design By Us
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Wall Light Sconce Plug-In Flush Mount A stunning modern wall sconce designed for both residential
Metal
$1,720Sale Price / item|20% Off
H 15 in W 15 in D 8 in
New Wave Optic Wall Sconce XL Smoke with Eyeball
By Design By Us
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Wall Light Sconce Plug-In Flush Mount A stunning modern wall sconce designed for both residential
Metal
$1,720Sale Price / item|20% Off
H 10 in W 10 in D 7 in
New Wave Optic Wall Light Sconce Rose with Eyeball
By Design By Us
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Wall Light Sconce Plug-In Flush Mount A stunning modern wall sconce designed for both residential
Metal
$1,239Sale Price / item|20% Off
H 10 in W 10 in D 7 in
New Wave Optic Wall Light Sconce Clear with Led Arbitrary Bulb Silver Mirror
By Design By Us
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Wall Light Sconce Plug-In Flush Mount A stunning modern wall sconce designed for both residential
Metal
$1,239Sale Price / item|20% Off
H 10 in W 10 in D 7 in
New Wave Optic Wall Light Sconce Clear with Bulb Ø2 Silver Mirror, Eyeball
By Design By Us
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Wall Light Sconce Plug-In Flush Mount A stunning modern wall sconce designed for both residential
Metal
$1,239Sale Price / item|20% Off
H 10 in W 10 in D 7 in
New Wave Optic Wall Light Sconce Smoke with Bulb Ø2 Silver Mirror, Eyeball
By Design By Us
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Wall Light Sconce Plug-In Flush Mount A stunning modern wall sconce designed for both residential
Metal
New Wave Extra Large Optic Wall Lamp, Clear Extra Large Size
By Design By Us
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Wall Light Sconce Plug-In Flush Mount A stunning modern wall sconce designed for both residential
Glass
New Wave Optic Wall Opal
By Design By Us
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The New Wave Optic Wall is made in a mouth blown wavy glass with a hand painted edge. The opal
Metal
New Wave Optic Wall Lamp Smoke
By Marie Burgos Design
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Light Plug-In Flush Mount. Stunning modern wall light sconces for residential and commercial spaces
Blown Glass
New Wave Optic Wall Lamp Clear
By Design By Us
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Wall lamp in mouth-blown glass, hand painted silver edge with a painted black base, black fabric
Glass
New Wave Optic Wall Lamp Clear
By Design By Us
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Wall lamp in mouth-blown glass, hand painted silver edge with a painted black base, black fabric
Glass
New Wave Optic Wall Lamp Smoke
By Marie Burgos Design
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Danish design Wall lamp in mouth-blown glass, hand-painted silver edge with a painted black base
Blown Glass
New Wave Optic Wall Lamp Rose - Pink
By Marie Burgos Design
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Wall lamp in mouth-blown glass, hand-painted gold edge with a painted black base, black fabric
Blown Glass
New Wave Optic Wall Light Sconce Clear
By Design By Us
Located in Brooklyn, NY
1 - light plug-in flush mount. Stunning modern wall light sconces for residential and commercial
Metal
New Wave Optic Wall Light Sconce Rose with Black Eyeball
By Design By Us
Located in Brooklyn, NY
1 - Light plug-in flush mount. Stunning modern wall light sconces for residential and commercial
Metal
New Wave Optic Wall Light Sconce Clear with Gold Eyeball
By Design By Us
Located in Brooklyn, NY
1 - Light Plug-In Flush Mount. Stunning modern wall light sconces for residential and commercial
Metal
New Wave Extra Large Optic Wall Lamp, Clear Extra Large Size
By Design By Us
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Wall lamp in mouth-blown glass, hand painted silver edge with a painted black base, black fabric
Glass
New Wave Extra Large Optic Wall Lamp, Pink 'Extra Large Size'
By Marie Burgos Design
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Danish design Wall lamp in mouth-blown glass, hand painted gold edge with a painted black base
Blown Glass
New Wave Extra Large Optic Wall Lamp, Smoke 'Extra Large Size'
By Marie Burgos Design
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Danish design Wall lamp in mouth-blown glass, hand painted silver edge with a painted black base
Blown Glass
Pink Murano Glass Torchiere Sconces
Located in Austin, TX
Pair of sconces, Italian, from the Island of Murano outside of Venice. The torchiere sconces feature hand blown pink pearlescent glass components on a polished brass structure. They ...
Brass
Amazing Mirror Unstructured Console by Studio Glustin
By Glustin Creation
Located in Saint-Ouen (PARIS), FR
This console is made of several rectangular forms as a foot, which gives it this unstructured aspect. Designed by the Studio Glustin, it is covered with Murano mirror glass, and bras...
Brass
$4,457 / set
H 19.69 in W 8.67 in D 4.34 in
Attr. Venini Mid-Century Modern Pulegoso Pair of Murano Glass Wall Sconces, 1960
By Venini
Located in Murano, Venezia
This is definitely a very simple applique made up of 5 glasses of Pulegoso tubes. Pulegoso glass is a type of opaque ornamental glass that includes myriads of gas bubbles which give...
Brass
$1,190 / item
H 17.33 in Dm 24.41 in
Django • Sienna Earth • Sculptural Textured Velvet Ottoman by Odditi
By Odditi
Located in CAROOL, NSW, AU
The Django ottoman is a sculptural living object that brings its eclectic personality into any space. Exhibiting a sleek yet playful nature, Django also has a practical side and is a...
Fabric, Foam, Jacquard
BRASS Pendant Uplighter with 4 lights
By Gino Sarfatti, Lightolier, Gerald Thurston
Located in St- Leonard, Quebec
MCM style BRASS pendant Uplighter with 4 lights . Concave disc are hand spun with prime quality brass . Solid sturdy hardware and construction . Diameter 30” Lower convex disc...
Brass
Ostro Black Ceramic Wall Sconce by Simone & Marcel
Located in Geneve, CH
Ostro Black Ceramic Wall Sconce by Simone & Marcel Dimensions: D 17 x W 31 x H 31 cm. Materials: Ceramic and glass. Available in different ceramic and marble options and finishes. C...
Ceramic, Glass
Vica Light Polished Nickel
By Vica, Annabelle Selldorf
Located in New York, NY
The Vica Light is a rectangular cast metal escutcheon plate with a beveled edge design and porcelain socket. The fixture can be wall or ceiling mounted. The maximum wattage bulb re...
Metal
$3,629 / item
H 47.25 in Dm 7.88 in
"Il Pezzo 12 Round Chandelier" - height 120cm/47.2" - bronze - crystal - LEDs
By Il Pezzo Mancante
Located in Firenze, IT
Il Pezzo 12 is a female figure suspended in the air, carrying in her womb the light. It’s nimble, refined, addictive. The solid clearest crystal, brilliantly illuminated by two LEDs,...
Crystal, Bronze, Brass
$434 / item
H 3.54 in W 4.92 in D 5.51 in
Galupa Art Deco Wall Sconce, Optical Glass & Aluminum, Up/Down Lighting
Located in İstiklal, TR
GALUPA Art Deco Wall Sconce, a masterpiece of design that effortlessly combines elegance and functionality. This stunning wall sconce is crafted in the timeless Art Deco style, featu...
Aluminum
Sconce in Hand Carved Terra Onyx , Piedra Lighting Collection
By L'Aviva Home
Located in New York, NY
Our Piedra lighting takes its inspiration from the stone masks of the ancient civilization of Teotihuacán. Carved in the Mexican city of Tecali, which means ‘stone house’ in Nahuatl,...
Onyx
$710 / item
H 14.5 in W 7.5 in D 1.5 in
fferrone Contemporary Modern Mirror Polished Stainless Steel Candle Wall Scone
By Felicia Ferrone
Located in Chicago, IL
Strikingly simple and minimal, the contemporary, modern, asymmetrical candle wall sconce, made from mirror polish stainless steel, reflects the light doubling it’s effect which perfe...
Stainless Steel
Italian Palmette Sconces by Barovier & Toso, Murano, 1960
By Barovier&Toso
Located in Budapest, HU
The sconces and chandeliers were located in the hall of a big hotel on the Amalfi Coast. Each individual sconce is composed by 29 large leaves in pure Murano glass. Available two pai...
Bronze
$2,400 / set
H 19.5 in W 38 in D 16 in
Pair of Vintage Fret Chinese Chippendale Faux Bamboo Wood Benches End of Bed
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Pair of vintage wood faux bamboo bench. Upholstery is original and will absolutely need to be recovered. May have stains, holes, dirt and indents to foam cushion interior from stacki...
Wood, Faux Bamboo
Murano Glass “Alligatore” Sconces
Located in Austin, TX
Pair of sconces, Italian, from the island of Murano. This pair is made of hand-blown glass with a beautiful “alligatore” texture. They have been newly wired to fit US standards. T...
Murano Glass
Rewire Custom Star Light
By Rewire
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Rewire Custom Star Ceiling Light. Fabricated by rewire gallery in Los Angeles. Brass, wired for US junction boxes. Takes four E26 40w maximum bulbs. Comes in un-lacquered brass. Ove...
Brass
$7,138
H 35.44 in Dm 15.75 in
Vintage Angelo Brotto for Esperia Chandelier in Enameled Metal with Glass Rods
By Esperia
Located in Saint-Ouen, IDF
Coming from the archives of the renown Italian lights maker Esperia is this chandelier made of three domes in white enameled metal, brass details and tens of thin glass rods hanging,...
Metal, Brass
The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw sweeping social change and major scientific advances — both of which contributed to a new aesthetic: modernism. Rejecting the rigidity of Victorian artistic conventions, modernists sought a new means of expression. References to the natural world and ornate classical embellishments gave way to the sleek simplicity of the Machine Age. Architect Philip Johnson characterized the hallmarks of modernism as “machine-like simplicity, smoothness or surface [and] avoidance of ornament.”
Early practitioners of modernist design include the De Stijl (“The Style”) group, founded in the Netherlands in 1917, and the Bauhaus School, founded two years later in Germany.
Followers of both groups produced sleek, spare designs — many of which became icons of daily life in the 20th century. The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics. While Bauhaus principals Marcel Breuer and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe created furniture from mass-produced, chrome-plated steel, American visionaries like Charles and Ray Eames worked in materials as novel as molded plywood and fiberglass. Today, Breuer’s Wassily chair, Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona chair — crafted with his romantic partner, designer Lilly Reich — and the Eames lounge chair are emblems of progressive design and vintage originals are prized cornerstones of collections.
It’s difficult to overstate the influence that modernism continues to wield over designers and architects — and equally difficult to overstate how revolutionary it was when it first appeared a century ago. But because modernist furniture designs are so simple, they can blend in seamlessly with just about any type of décor. Don’t overlook them.
From the kitchen to the bedroom and everywhere in between, there is one major part of home decor that you definitely want to master: lighting. Carefully selected vintage sconces and wall lights can do wonders in establishing mood and highlighting your distinctive personality.
We’re a long way from the candelabra-inspired chandeliers of the medieval era. Lighting is no longer merely practical, and lighting designers have been creating and reinventing lighting solutions for eons. Because of the advancements crafted by these venturesome makers, we now have the opportunity to bring unique, customizable lighting solutions into our homes.
It’s never been easier to create dramatic bedrooms, cozy kitchen areas and cheerful bars than it is today. Think of an elegant wall sconce as functional and as a work of art, adding both light and style to your hallways, whimsical kids’ rooms and elsewhere.
When choosing a lighting solution, first determine what your needs are: Will you opt for a moody or a bright feel? The room that will serve as your home office will need adequate lighting — think “the brighter, the better” for this particular setting.
For the bedroom, bedside wall lamps with warm-temperature bulbs instead of bedside table lamps could be the way to go to induce a sense of calm or intimacy. Try to match the style of the wall light or sconce that you’re installing to the overall design scheme of your room. It’s never “just a light.” You should approach the lighting of a room with a mindset that is one part practical and one part aesthetics-driven.
Let 1stDibs help you set the mood with the right antique and vintage wall lights and sconces for your home. Our collection includes every kind of fixture, from sculptural works by Austrian craftsman J.T. Kalmar to chic industrial-style wall sconces, from adjustable painted aluminum wall lamps designed by Artemide to a wide variety of minimalist mid-century modern masterpieces.