$893 / item
Odyssey Paris Wall Sconce by Schwung
Located in Geneve, CH
Odyssey Paris Wall Sconce by Schwung. Dimensions: W 10.5 x D 14.4 x H 30.5 cm.
Metal
$893 / item
Odyssey Paris Wall Sconce by Schwung
Located in Geneve, CH
Odyssey Paris Wall Sconce by Schwung. Dimensions: W 10.5 x D 14.4 x H 30.5 cm.
Brass
$742 / item
Odyssey MD Wall Sconce by Schwung
Located in Geneve, CH
Black medium sconce by Schwung. Dimensions: W 10.5 x D 14 x H 30.5 cm. Materials: Black gunmetal, frosted glass. Finishes available: Black gunmetal, polished nickel, brass. Schwun...
Glass
$743 / item
Odyssey Santorini MD Wall Sconce by Schwung
Located in Geneve, CH
Odyssey Santorini MD Wall Sconce by Schwung Limited Edition Dimensions: W 10.5 x D 14 x H 30.5 cm.
Glass
$835 / item
Odyssey LG Black Wall Sconce by Schwung
Located in Geneve, CH
Odyssey LG black wall sconce by Schwung Dimensions: W 10.5 x D 14 x H 38 cm Materials: black gunmetal, frosted glass Finishes available: Black gunmetal, polished nickel, brass ...
Glass
$696 / item
Odyssey SM Black Wall Sconce by Schwung
Located in Geneve, CH
Odyssey SM black wall sconce by Schwung. Dimensions: W 10.5 x D 14 x H 23 cm.
Glass
$835 / item
Odyssey LG Brass Wall Sconce by Schwung
Located in Geneve, CH
Odyssey LG brass wall sconce by Schwung Dimensions: W 10.5 x D 14 x H 38 cm Materials: Brass, frosted glass Finishes available: Black gunmetal, polished nickel, brass Schwung...
Brass
$742 / item
Odyssey MD Brass Wall Sconce by Schwung
Located in Geneve, CH
Odyssey MD brass wall sconce by Schwung Dimensions: W 10.5 x D 14 x H 30.5 cm Materials: Brass, frosted glass Finishes available: Black gunmetal, polished nickel, brass Other s...
Brass
$835 / item
Odyssey LG Brass Wall Sconce by Schwung
Located in Geneve, CH
Odyssey LG Brass Wall Sconce by Schwung Dimensions: W 10.5 x D 14 x H 38 cm Materials: Brass, frosted glass Finishes available: Black gunmetal, polished nickel, brass Schwung...
Brass
$835 / item
Odyssey LG Black Wall Sconce by Schwung
Located in Geneve, CH
Odyssey LG Black Wall Sconce by Schwung Dimensions: W 10.5 x D 14 x H 38 cm Materials: Black gunmetal, frosted glass Finishes available: Black gunmetal, polished nickel, brass ...
Glass
$696 / item
Odyssey SM Black Wall Sconce by Schwung
Located in Geneve, CH
Odyssey SM Black Wall Sconce by Schwung Dimensions: W 10.5 x D 14 x H 23 cm Materials: Black gunmetal, frosted glass Finishes available: Black gunmetal, polished nickel, brass ...
Glass
$742 / item
Odyssey MD Brass Wall Sconce by Schwung
Located in Geneve, CH
Odyssey MD brass wall sconce by Schwung Dimensions: W 10.5 x D 14 x H 30.5 cm Materials: Brass, frosted glass Finishes available: black gunmetal, polished nickel, brass Other s...
Brass
$742 / item
Odyssey MD Brass Wall Sconce by Schwung
Located in Geneve, CH
Odyssey MD brass wall sconce by Schwung Dimensions: W 10.5 x D 14 x H 30.5 cm Materials: Brass, frosted glass Finishes available: Black gunmetal, polished nickel, brass Other s...
Brass
$696 / item
Odyssey SM Black Wall Sconce by Schwung
Located in Geneve, CH
Odyssey SM Black Wall Sconce by Schwung Dimensions: W 10.5 x D 14 x H 23 cm Materials: Black gunmetal, frosted glass Finishes available: Black gunmetal, polished nickel, brass Other...
Glass
$742 / item
Odyssey Md Brass Wall Sconce by Schwung
Located in Geneve, CH
Odyssey MD Brass Wall Sconce by Schwung Dimensions: W 10.5 x D 14 x H 30.5 cm Materials: Brass, frosted glass Finishes available: Black gunmetal, polished nickel, brass Other s...
Brass
$835 / item
Odyssey LG Black Wall Sconce by Schwung
Located in Geneve, CH
Odyssey LG Black Wall Sconce by Schwung Dimensions: W 10.5 x D 14 x H 38 cm Materials: Black gunmetal, frosted glass Finishes available: Black gunmetal, polished nickel, brass Schw...
Glass
$696 / item
Odyssey SM Brass Wall Sconce by Schwung
Located in Geneve, CH
Brass small sconce by Schwung. Dimensions: W 10.5 x D 14 x H 23 cm. Materials: brass, frosted glass. Finishes available: black gunmetal, polished nickel, brass. Schwung is ...
Brass
$696 / item
Odyssey SM Brass Wall Sconce by Schwung
Located in Geneve, CH
Brass small sconce by Schwung. Dimensions: W 10.5 x D 14 x H 23 cm. Materials: brass, frosted glass. Finishes available: black gunmetal, polished nickel, brass. Schwung is ...
Brass
$696 / item
Odyssey SM Brass Wall Sconce by Schwung
Located in Geneve, CH
Brass small sconce by Schwung. Dimensions: W 10.5 x D 14 x H 23 cm Materials: brass, frosted glass. Finishes available: black gunmetal, polished nickel, brass. Schwung is a...
Brass
$742 / item
Odyssey MD Brass Wall Sconce by Schwung
Located in Geneve, CH
Brass medium sconce by Schwung. Dimensions: W 10.5 x D 14 x H 30.5 cm. Materials: brass, frosted glass. Finishes available: black gunmetal, polished nickel, brass. Other sizes ...
Brass
$835 / item
Odyssey LG Sconce by Schwung
Located in Geneve, CH
Odyssey LG Sconce by Schwung Dimensions: W 10.5 x D 14 x H 38 cm Materials: Brass, frosted glass Finishes available: Black gunmetal, polished nickel, brass Schwung is a German word...
Brass
$835 / item
Odyssey LG Sconce by Schwung
Located in Geneve, CH
Odyssey LG Sconce by Schwung Dimensions: W 10.5 x D 14 x H 38 cm Materials: Brass, frosted glass Finishes available: Black gunmetal, polished nickel, brass Schwung is a German word...
Brass
$696 / item
Odyssey Santorini SM by Schwung
Located in Geneve, CH
Odyssey Santorini SM Wall Sconce by Schwung Limited Edition Dimensions: W 10.5 x D 14.2 x H 23 cm.
Glass
$696 / item
Odyssey Santorini SM by Schwung
Located in Geneve, CH
Odyssey Santorini MD Wall Sconce by Schwung Limited Edition Dimensions: W 10.5 x D 14.2 x H 23 cm.
Glass
$835 / item
Odyssey Santorini LG by Schwung
Located in Geneve, CH
Odyssey Santorini MD Wall Sconce by Schwung Limited Edition Dimensions: W 10.5 x D 14.2 x H 38 cm.
Glass
$5,813 / item
Odyssey 12 Chandelier by Schwung
Located in Geneve, CH
Odyssey 12 Chandelier by Schwung Dimensions: D 47.2 x H 174.4cm Materials: Triplex Opax Transparent Glass, Lacquered Burnished Brass Available in Black Gunmetal and Polished Nickel. ...
Brass
Sold
H 12 in W 5.6 in D 4.1 in
Medium Brass and Glass Odyssey Wall Sconce, Contemporary Design by Schwung
Located in High Point, NC
Serenely emitting light, while projecting its form. The distinctive Odyssey globe is reflected in this fixture by a rounded brass wall plate, spreading a diffuse glow. Available i...
Brass
Sold
H 15 in W 5.6 in D 4.1 in
Contemporary Odyssey Wall Sconce in Polished Nickel, Brass & Glass by Schwung
Located in High Point, NC
Serenely emitting light, while projecting its form. The distinctive Odyssey globe is reflected in this fixture by a rounded brass wall plate, spreading a diffuse glow. Please note t...
Brass
Sold
H 15 in W 5.6 in D 4.1 in
Odyssey Wall Sconce by Contemporary Designers, Brass and Glass, Europe by Schwun
Located in High Point, NC
Serenely emitting light, while projecting its form. The distinctive Odyssey globe is reflected in this fixture by a rounded brass wall plate, spreading a diffuse glow. Available i...
Brass
Sold
H 9.1 in W 5.6 in D 4.5 in
Odyssey Small Wall Sconce in Brass and Glass, Contemporary Design by Schwung
Located in High Point, NC
Serenely emitting light, while projecting its form. The distinctive Odyssey globe is reflected in this fixture by a rounded brass wall plate, spreading a diffuse glow. Available i...
Brass
Odyssey MD Wall Sconce by Schwung
Located in Geneve, CH
Black medium sconce by Schwung. Dimensions: W 10.5 x D 14 x H 30.5 cm. Materials: Black gunmetal, frosted glass. Finishes available: Black gunmetal, polished nickel, brass. ...
Glass
Odyssey MD Wall Sconce by Schwung
Located in Geneve, CH
Black medium sconce by Schwung Dimensions: W 10.5 x D 14 x H 30.5 cm Materials: Black gunmetal, frosted glass Finishes available: Black gunmetal, polished nickel, brass Sch...
Glass
Odyssey MD Wall Sconce by Schwung
Located in Geneve, CH
Black medium sconce by Schwung Dimensions: W 10.5 x D 14 x H 30.5 cm Materials: Black gunmetal, frosted glass Finishes available: Black gunmetal, polished nickel, brass Sch...
Glass
Odyssey MD Wall Sconce by Schwung
Located in Geneve, CH
Black medium sconce by Schwung Dimensions: W 10.5 x D 14 x H 30.5 cm Materials: Black gunmetal, frosted glass Finishes available: Black gunmetal, polished nickel, brass Sch...
Glass
Odyssey MD Wall Sconce by Schwung
Located in Geneve, CH
Black medium sconce by Schwung Dimensions: W 10.5 x D 14 x H 30.5 cm Materials: Black gunmetal, frosted glass Finishes available: Black gunmetal, polished nickel, brass Sch...
Glass
Odyssey MD Wall Sconce by Schwung
Located in Geneve, CH
Black medium sconce by Schwung Dimensions: W 10.5 x D 14 x H 30.5 cm Materials: Black gunmetal, frosted glass Finishes available: Black gunmetal, polished nickel, brass Sch...
Glass
Odyssey MD Wall Sconce by Schwung
Located in Geneve, CH
Black medium sconce by Schwung. Dimensions: W 10.5 x D 14 x H 30.5 cm. Materials: Black gunmetal, frosted glass. Finishes available: Black gunmetal, polished nickel, brass. ...
Glass
Odyssey MD Wall Sconce by Schwung
Located in Geneve, CH
Black medium sconce by Schwung. Dimensions: W 10.5 x D 14 x H 30.5 cm. Materials: Black gunmetal, frosted glass. Finishes available: Black gunmetal, polished nickel, brass. Schwun...
Glass
Odyssey MD Wall Sconce by Schwung
Located in Geneve, CH
Black medium sconce by Schwung. Dimensions: W 10.5 x D 14 x H 30.5 cm. Materials: Black gunmetal, frosted glass. Finishes available: Black gunmetal, polished nickel, brass. ...
Glass
Iris Wall Sconce by Modu Studio
By Modu Studio
Located in New York, NY
The Iris Wall Sconces a handcrafted lighting fixture, which incorporates solid wood, alabaster and liquid bronze to create a unique appearance. Traditional techniques such as casting...
Alabaster, Bronze
$1,295 / item
H 13.5 in W 5 in D 5.5 in
Contemporary Handmade Blackened Brass & Smoked Grey Glass Wall Sconce, Edie
By Lightmaker Studio
Located in Kingston, Ontario
*Our products are currently duty-free to the US under USMCA* Edie explores the relationship between two similar forms. An exaggerated top column plays against the sconce’s overall s...
Brass
Semi Flush Mount in Hand Carved Milk 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
$2,860 / item
H 29.93 in W 23.63 in D 23.63 in
Ethnic Straw Armchair by +55design Brazilian Design with Indigenous Craft
By Neca Abrantes
Located in Jardim America, SP
This rotating armchair by Neca Abrantes is a striking fusion of contemporary Brazilian design and indigenous handcrafted traditions. Known for her deep passion for native craftsmansh...
Straw
Leather Meander Wall Sconce
Located in Pound Ridge, NY
Our updated Meander Reader light with leather wrapped flexible arm and a larger cone shade and new upward angle feature. Bulb can be fully recessed. Comes with suggested LED bulb. ...
Brass
Modern Bowl Chandelier
Located in Westwood, NJ
Modern bowl chandelier with a textured white composite canopy above a bronze-finished steel bowl. With a painted chain and ceiling canopy. Dimensions: 43" W x 43" D x 31" H 108" c...
Metal
$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
$3,713 / item
H 17.72 in Dm 55.91 in
Orbitale chandelier with 3 rotating arms on the new Giacometti style finish.
By Silvio Piattelli, Diego Giacometti
Located in Tavarnelle val di Pesa, Florence
This new finish adds a unique textured look to the Orbitale collection. It is a thick, handmade plaster finish called the Giacometti finish, used by Diego and Alberto on some of thei...
Gold, Brass
$3,249 / item
H 27.56 in Dm 15.75 in
Modernist Round Pendant Light, Brushed Brass and Opaline Glass, Customizable
By GMD Berlin
Located in Berlin, DE
Modernist round pendant light made of brushed brass and opaline glass. Customizable, production time c. 10 weeks.
Brass
$8,211 / set
H 23.63 in W 4.34 in D 2.37 in
Brass and Alabaster Curved and Long Wall Sconces by Glustin Luminaires
By Glustin Creation
Located in Saint-Ouen, IDF
New wall sconces by Glustin Luminaires, made of a single rounded and curved carved alabaster piece sat on a light bronze-finish brass backplate. Due to the nature of the alabaste...
Alabaster, Brass
$1,650 / item
H 16.1 in Dm 11.5 in
'Plissé White Edition' Pleated Textile Table Lamp by Folkform for Örsjö
By Örsjö Industri AB
Located in Los Angeles, CA
'Plissé White Edition' pleated textile table lamp by Folkform for Örsjö. This unique table lamp was awarded “Lighting of the Year 2022” by Residence Magazine Sweden, who called it “...
Textile
$1,351 / item
H 13.39 in W 10.63 in D 10.63 in
Set Antique Vintage Acorn Opaline White Milk Glass Ceiling Pendant Light Lamp
Located in Sale, GB
- A fabulous run of church opaline acorn pendant lights with steel galleries, circa 1950. - Wear commensurate with age, all in excellent condition, the steel galleries are aged worn...
Glass
Mamun Bedside (Dark Brown/Dusty Blue)
Located in Singapore, SG
Mamun, which translates to trustworthy in Arabic, was designed by Studio Kallang in 2021 as a playful take on both midcentury and brutalist forms. Designer Faezah Shaharuddin intende...
Teak
$1,295 / item
H 10 in W 6 in D 7.25 in
Midcentury-Inspired Handmade Brass & Opal Glass Wall Sconce, Made-to-Order
By Lightmaker Studio
Located in Kingston, Ontario
*Our products are currently duty-free to the US under USMCA* With curvaceous shapes and a nipped centre, Betty is a modern take on midcentury era design. Sculptural mold-blown glass...
Brass
Leather Meander Flexible Wall Sconce
Located in Pound Ridge, NY
Leather wrapped flexible arm wall light you can pose and adjust as you wish. This is our updated Meander Reader light with larger cone shade and new upward angled arm. Lamping: Sing...
Metal, Brass, Nickel
$2,000 / item
H 8.5 in Dm 17.5 in
Vintage Inspired Handcrafted Fluted Farmhouse Porcelain Pendant Light
By DBO Home
Located in Sharon, CT
Classic, elegant, with a perfectly imperfect touch. We just love our new porcelain Parasol Fluted Pendants. Inspired by a vintage pie cover, we designed them to hang over our kitchen...
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.
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