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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 and commercial interiors. Each piece features hand-blown glass accented with a hand-...
Blown Glass
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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 and commercial interiors. Each piece features hand-blown glass accented with a hand-...
Glass
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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. Wall lamp in hand-blown glass with hand-painted gold edge, painted black base, an...
Metal
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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 and commercial interiors. Each piece features hand-blown glass accented with a hand-...
Metal
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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 and commercial interiors. Each piece features hand-blown glass accented with a hand-...
Metal
$1,720Sale Price / item|20% Off
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 and commercial interiors. Each piece features hand-blown glass accented with a hand-...
Metal
$1,239Sale Price / item|20% Off
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 and commercial interiors. Each piece features hand-blown glass accented with a hand-...
Metal
$1,720Sale Price / item|20% Off
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 and commercial interiors. Each piece features hand-blown glass accented with a hand-...
Metal
$1,239Sale Price / item|20% Off
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 spaces. Wall lamp in hand blown glass, hand painted silver edge with a painted black ...
Metal
$1,720Sale Price / item|20% Off
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 and commercial interiors. Each piece features hand-blown glass accented with a hand-...
Metal
$1,239Sale Price / item|20% Off
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 and commercial interiors. Each piece features hand-blown glass accented with a hand-...
Metal
$1,720Sale Price / item|20% Off
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 and commercial interiors. Each piece features hand-blown glass accented with a hand-...
Metal
$1,720Sale Price / item|20% Off
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 and commercial interiors. Each piece features hand-blown glass accented with a hand-...
Metal
$1,239Sale Price / item|20% Off
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 and commercial interiors. Each piece features hand-blown glass accented with a hand-...
Metal
$1,239Sale Price / item|20% Off
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 and commercial interiors. Each piece features hand-blown glass accented with a hand-...
Metal
$1,239Sale Price / item|20% Off
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 and commercial interiors. Each piece features hand-blown glass accented with a hand-...
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 and commercial interiors. Each piece features hand-blown glass accented with a hand-...
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.
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. Wall lamp in hand-blown glass with hand-painted gold edge, painted black base, an...
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 electrical cord. Specifications: Ø 10". UL listed Bulb included: "LED Arbi...
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 electrical cord. Specifications: Ø 10". UL listed Bulb included: "LED Arbi...
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, black fabric electrical cord. Specifications: Ø 10". UL listed. Bulb INCLUDED: "LE...
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 electrical cord. Specifications: Ø10" UL listed.
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 spaces. Wall lamp in hand blown glass, hand painted silver edge with a painted black ...
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 spaces. Wall lamp in hand blown glass, hand painted gold edge with a painted black ba...
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 spaces. Wall lamp in hand blown glass, hand painted silver edge with a painted black ...
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 electrical cord. LIGHT BULBS NOT INCLUDED Specifications: Ø 15". UL Listed
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, black fabric electrical cord. LIGHT BULBS NOT INCLUDED Specifications: Ø15" UL listed.
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, black fabric electrical cord. LIGHT BULBS NOT INCLUDED Specifications: Ø 15". UL l...
Blown Glass
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.