Vintage Artemide Pausania Table Lamp by Ettore Sottsass, 1980s
Located in Farmingdale, NJ
Designed by Ettore Sottsass (1917-2007) and manufactured by Artemide. Labeled on bottom.
Category
Vintage 1980s Table Lamps
Materials
Acrylic
Pausania Table Lamp
Artemide Pausania Bankers Lamp by Ettore Sottsass
By Artemide, Ettore Sottsass
Located in Toronto, CA
A banker’s lamp reimagined through a postmodern lens. Designed by Ettore Sottsass for Artemide in
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Vintage 1980s Italian Post-Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Metal
Postmodern Green Black Vintage Table Lamp Pausania by Ettore Sottsass Jr Italy
$3,461
H 16.74 in W 18.9 in D 4.34 in
Postmodern Green Black Vintage Table Lamp Pausania by Ettore Sottsass Jr Italy
By Ettore Sottsass
Located in Vienna, AT
Modern green and black Ettore Sottsass jr. vintage table lamp 1982, model Pausania, executed by
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Vintage 1980s Italian Post-Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Metal, Sheet Metal
Ettore Sottsass Pausania Table Lamp 1982
By Ettore Sottsass
Located in Encino, CA
Ettore Sottsass (1917) Edition Artemide. One table lamp Model PAUSANIA 1982 Measurements: H 16"1/2
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Table Lamps
Materials
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Pausania Table Lamp by Ettore Sottsass for Artemide, Italy
By Ettore Sottsass, Artemide
Located in RHEEZERVEEN, Overijssel
Architecturally designed lamp with classical as well as a modern elements by Ettore Sottsass, one
Category
Vintage 1980s Italian Post-Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Chrome, Steel
Artemide Pausania LED Table Lamp in Black and Green by Ettore Sottsass
Unavailable
H 16.93 in W 18.9 in D 1.97 in
Artemide Pausania LED Table Lamp in Black and Green by Ettore Sottsass
By Ettore Sottsass, Artemide
Located in Hicksville, NY
Artemide Pausania LED table lamp in black and green by Ettore Sottsass. The godfather of
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Green and Black Desk Lamp "Pausania" by E. Sottsass; Resin Body and Methacrylate
Unavailable
H 16.93 in W 18.9 in D 4.34 in
Green and Black Desk Lamp "Pausania" by E. Sottsass; Resin Body and Methacrylate
By Ettore Sottsass, Artemide
Located in Milan, IT
Decorative table or desk lamp "Pausania" by Ettore Sottsass. The production is Italian, by Artemide
Category
Vintage 1980s Italian Table Lamps
Materials
Metal
'Pausanias' Table Lamp by Ettore Sottsass Jr for Artemide Manufactured in Italy
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H 16.54 in W 18.9 in D 3.94 in
'Pausanias' Table Lamp by Ettore Sottsass Jr for Artemide Manufactured in Italy
By Ettore Sottsass, Artemide
Located in Milano, IT
'Pausanias' table lamp by Ettore Sottsass Jr for Artemide with green methacrylate diffuser. It
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Pausania Table Lamp by Ettore Sottsass, circa 1983
By Ettore Sottsass
Located in VILLEURBANNE, FR
: the Pausania table lamp. Minimalist and radical, it remains today a symbol of innovation and
Category
Vintage 1980s Italian Post-Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Metal
Pausania Table Lamp by Ettore Sottsass for Artemide, Italy
By Ettore Sottsass, Artemide
Located in Milano, IT
Iconic Pausania Table Lamp by Ettore Sottsass for Artemide, Italy, 1980s. In the 1980s, the
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Postmodern Pausania Table Lamp by Ettore Sottsass
By Ettore Sottsass
Located in Dronten, NL
A green and black Ettore Sottsass jr. vintage table lamp model Pausania, produced in 1982 by
Category
Vintage 1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Chrome
Original Pausania Table Lamp by Ettore Sottsass
By Ettore Sottsass
Located in Dronten, NL
A green and black Ettore Sottsass jr. table lamp model Pausania, produced in 1982 by Artemide Italy
Category
Vintage 1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Chrome
Ettore Sottsass Memphis Pausania Table Lamp Artemide
Located in Miami, FL
"All my creations look like small architecture" said Ettore Sottsass. The Pausania is Sottsass's
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Table Lamps
Materials
Chrome
Ettore Sottsass Pausania Table Lamp for Artemide 1983
By Ettore Sottsass, Artemide
Located in Roosendaal, Noord Brabant
Very nice table lamp designed by Ettore Sottsass for Artemide, Italy 1983. This lamp is no longer
Category
Vintage 1980s Italian Table Lamps
Materials
Metal
Two Ettore Sottsass "Pausania" Lamps
By Ettore Sottsass, Artemide
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Table lamps by the master! True collector's items from Italy.
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Table Lamps
Ettore Sottsass "Pausania" table /desk lamp, for Artemide, Label
By Memphis Group, Artemide, Ettore Sottsass
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Great design in this lamp, recorded in many books and catalog information.Label
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Ettore Sottsass Desk Lamp Pausania by Artemide
By Ettore Sottsass
Located in Geneva, CH
Pausania desk lamp by Ettore Sottsass produced by Artemide.
Category
Vintage 1980s Italian Table Lamps
Materials
Acrylic
Ettore Sottsass "Pausania" Table Lamp
By Ettore Sottsass, Artemide
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Table lamps by the master! True collector's items from Italy. Available the pair.
Category
Vintage 1980s Italian Table Lamps
Materials
Aluminum
Pausania Table Lamp by Ettore Sottsass for Artemide
By Ettore Sottsass, Artemide
Located in Brooklyn, NY
A vintage green, black, and chrome "Pausania" table or desk lamp by Ettore Sottsass for Artemide
Category
Late 20th Century Post-Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Chrome
Ettore Sottsass, pair of "Pausania" Lamps
By Ettore Sottsass
Located in Encino, CA
Ettore Sottsass (1917) Edition Artemide. Pair of lamps Model PAUSANIA 1982 GOOD CONDITION
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Table Lamps
Materials
Stainless Steel
Ettore Sottsass, Two Pausania Table Lamps, 1982
By Ettore Sottsass
Located in Encino, CA
Ettore Sottsass (1917) Pair of table lamps Model "PAUSANIA", 1982 Edition Artemide. One
Category
Vintage 1980s Italian Table Lamps
Pausania Table Lamp by Ettore Sottsass for Artemide, 1980s
By Ettore Sottsass, Artemide
Located in Ixelles, Bruxelles
Pausania Table Lamp by Ettore Sottsass for Artemide, 1980s Designer - Ettore Sottsass Producer
Category
Vintage 1980s Italian Table Lamps
Materials
Metal
Pausania Table or Desk Lamp by Ettore Sottsass, Edition Artemide, Italy, 1982
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H 16.5 in W 18.7 in D 4 in
Pausania Table or Desk Lamp by Ettore Sottsass, Edition Artemide, Italy, 1982
By Ettore Sottsass
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Literature: - Albrecht Bangert, Utalienisches Möbeldesign - Klassiker von 1945 bis heute, Éditions Bangert, Munich 1987, similar model illustrated P.167. - Giuliana Gramigna, Reper...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Table Lamps
Robert Sonneman for Kovacs Postmodern Bankers Desk Lamp in Brass and Glass
Sold
H 15 in W 17.5 in D 4.75 in
Robert Sonneman for Kovacs Postmodern Bankers Desk Lamp in Brass and Glass
By Robert Sonneman
Located in Atlanta, GA
table lamp was inspired by Ettore Sottsass' design for his Pausania lamp. The Sonneman table lamp
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Late 20th Century American Table Lamps
Materials
Metal
ETTORE SOTTSASS PAUSANIA lamp Memphis period
By Ettore Sottsass, Memphis Group
Located in LA Arnhem, NL
ETTORE SOTTSASS PAUSANIA. Artemide Pausania lamp designed by Ettore Sottsass. Vintage.
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Post-Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Metal
Ettore Sottsass Pausania Lamp Memphis Period
By Ettore Sottsass, Memphis Group, Artemide
Located in LA Arnhem, NL
Ettore Sottsass Pausania. Artemide Pausania lamp designed by Ettore Sottsass. Vintage production.
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Post-Modern Table Lamps
Materials
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Pausania Table Lamp For Sale on 1stDibs
At 1stDibs, there are many versions of the ideal pausania table lamp for your home. A pausania table lamp — often made from metal, plastic and chrome — can elevate any home. If you’re shopping for a pausania table lamp, we have 17 options in-stock, while there are 1 modern editions to choose from as well. There are many kinds of the pausania table lamp you’re looking for, from those produced as long ago as the 20th Century to those made as recently as the 21st Century. A pausania table lamp is a generally popular piece of furniture, but those created in Mid-Century Modern and Modern styles are sought with frequency.
How Much is a Pausania Table Lamp?
The average selling price for a pausania table lamp at 1stDibs is $1,488, while they’re typically $1,000 on the low end and $5,909 for the highest priced.
Ettore Sottsass for sale on 1stDibs
An architect, industrial designer, philosopher and provocateur, Ettore Sottsass led a revolution in the aesthetics and technology of modern design in the late 20th century. He was a wild man of the Radical Design movement that swept Italy in the late 1960s and ’70s, rejecting rationalism and modernism in favor of ever-more outrageous imaginings in lighting and furniture such as mirrors, lamps, chairs and tables.
Sottsass was the oldest member of the Memphis Group — a design collective, formed in Milan in 1980, whose irreverent, spirited members included Alessandro Mendini, Michele de Lucchi, Michael Graves and Shiro Kuramata. All had grown disillusioned by the staid, black-and-brown “corporatized” modernism that had become endemic in the 1970s. Memphis (the name stemmed from the title of a Bob Dylan song) countered with bold, brash, colorful, yet quirkily minimal designs for furniture, glassware, ceramics and metalwork.
The Memphis Group mocked high-status by building furniture with inexpensive materials such as plastic laminates, decorated to resemble exotic finishes such as animal skins. Their work was both functional and — as intended — shocking.
Even as it preceded the Memphis Group's formal launch, Sottsass's iconic Ultrafragola mirror — in its conspicuously curved plastic shell and radical pops of pink neon — embodies many of the collective's postmodern ideals.
Sottsass created innovative furnishings for the likes of Artemide, Knoll, Zanotta and Poltronova, where he reigned as artistic director for nearly two decades beginning in 1958. His most-recognized designs appeared in the first Memphis collection, issued in 1981 — notably the multihued, angular Carlton room divider and Casablanca bookcase. As pieces on 1stDibs demonstrate, however, Sottsass is at his most inspired and expressive in smaller, secondary furnishings such as lamps and chandeliers, and in table pieces and glassware that have playful and sculptural qualities.
Sottsass left the Memphis Group in 1985 in order to concentrate on the growth of Sottsass Associati, a design and architecture consultancy he cofounded in 1980.
It was as an artist that Sottsass was celebrated in his life, in exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, in 2006, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art a year later. Even then Sottsass’s work prompted critical debate. And for a man whose greatest pleasure was in astonishing, delighting and ruffling feathers, perhaps there was no greater accolade. That the work remains so revolutionary and bold — that it breaks with convention so sharply it will never be considered mainstream — is a testament to his genius.
Find Ettore Sottsass lighting, decorative objects and furniture for sale on 1stDibs.
Finding the Right Table-lamps for You
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.
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