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Pendulum Floor Lamp

Pierre Guariche “G2 Pendulum” Floor Lamp for Disderot, France, 1950s
By Pierre Guariche
Located in Paris, FR
An iconic vintage floor lamp by notable French designer Pierre Guariche, model G2, designed in the
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Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps

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Brass

Swinging floor lamp with pendulum, Edition Maison Lunel, France, circa 1950
By Maison Lunel
Located in Paris, FR
Pendulum floor lamp. Gilded brass tripod base from which rises a wooden shaft housing an
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Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps

Materials

Brass

Robert Mathieu, Floor Lamp "Pendulum", France, 1952
By Robert Mathieu
Located in Barcelona, ES
Robert Mathieu (1921-2002) Floor lamp model 56 or “Pendulum” Manufactured by Arteluce France
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Vintage 1950s French Floor Lamps

Materials

Brass

Pendulum Floor Light by CTO Lighting
By CTO Lighting
Located in Geneve, CH
Pendulum floor light by CTO Lighting Materials: satin brass with smoked glass shade. Also
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2010s British Post-Modern Floor Lamps

Materials

Brass

Pendulum Floor Light by CTO Lighting
Pendulum Floor Light by CTO Lighting
$12,087 / item
H 46.07 in W 12.6 in D 6.11 in
Italian Floor Lamp in the Style of Angelo Lelli Pendulum
By Angelo Lelii
Located in Ternay, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Base in black marble and brass. System pendulum with metal lamshade In the style of Italian
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2010s Italian Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps

Materials

Marble, Metal, Brass

Italian Floor Lamp in the Style of Angelo Lelli Pendulum
Italian Floor Lamp in the Style of Angelo Lelli Pendulum
$4,025 / item
H 78.75 in W 45.67 in D 11.82 in

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Robert Mathieu "Pendulum" Floor Lamp, French, 1950's
By Robert Mathieu
Located in Wargrave, Berkshire
Robert Mathieu for Mathieu Luminaires, France circa 1952, a model 56 or "Pendulum" floor lamp
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Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps

Materials

Brass

1950s Pendulum Floor Lamp by Maison Lunel
By Maison Lunel
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Floor lamp with pendulum and ball joint in black lacquered metal brass composed of a tripod foot in
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20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps

Materials

Brass

1950s Pendulum Floor Lamp by Maison Lunel
1950s Pendulum Floor Lamp by Maison Lunel
H 65.36 in W 31.5 in D 17.33 in
1950s Pendulum Floor Lamp by Maison Lunel
By Maison Lunel
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Floor lamp with pendulum and ball joint in brass with gunmetal patina, composed of a compass foot
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20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps

Materials

Brass

1950s Pendulum Floor Lamp by Maison Lunel
1950s Pendulum Floor Lamp by Maison Lunel
H 70.87 in W 35.44 in D 16.54 in
1950s Pendulum Floor Lamp by Maison Lunel
By Maison Lunel
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Floor lamp with pendulum and ball joint in brass and black lacquered metal composed of a tripod
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20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps

Materials

Brass

1950s Pendulum Floor Lamp by Maison Lunel
1950s Pendulum Floor Lamp by Maison Lunel
H 70.87 in W 35.44 in D 16.54 in
1950s Pendulum Floor Lamp by Maison Lunel
By Maison Lunel
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Floor lamp with pendulum composed of a tripod foot in black lacquered metal resting on three
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20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps

1950s Pendulum Floor Lamp by Maison Lunel
1950s Pendulum Floor Lamp by Maison Lunel
H 68.51 in W 35.44 in D 15.75 in
1950s Pendulum Floor Lamp by Maison Lunel
By Maison Lunel
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Articulated floor lamp with ball joint. It consists of a circular black lacquered cast iron base
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20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps

Materials

Metal

Pendulum Floor Lamps, Maison Lunel circa 1950
By Maison Lunel
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Brass floor lamp, consisting of a circular cast-iron base, sheathed in green moleskin and set with
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20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps

Materials

Brass

Pendulum Floor Lamps, Maison Lunel circa 1950
Pendulum Floor Lamps, Maison Lunel circa 1950
H 72.84 in W 11.82 in D 18.51 in
Pendulum Floor Lamps, Maison Lunel circa 1950
By Maison Lunel
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Brass floor lamp, consisting of a circular cast-iron base, sheathed in red moleskin and set with a
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20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps

Materials

Brass

Pendulum Floor Lamps, Maison Lunel circa 1950
Pendulum Floor Lamps, Maison Lunel circa 1950
H 72.84 in W 11.82 in D 18.51 in
Pair of Pendulum Floor Lamps, Maison Lunel circa 1950
By Maison Lunel
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Pair of brass floor lamps, composed of a circular base in cast iron sheathed in black leather, and
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20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps

Materials

Brass

Rare Pendulum Brass Floor Lamp
Located in Marcq-en-Barœul, Hauts-de-France
This rare pendulum floor lamp is all made of brass. This is a very unusual model by a French
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Vintage 1940s French Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps

Materials

Brass

Rare Pendulum Brass Floor Lamp
Rare Pendulum Brass Floor Lamp
H 67.72 in W 41.34 in D 15.75 in
Swinging floor lamp, Editions Maison Lunel, Paris, France, circa 1950
By Maison Lunel
Located in Paris, FR
Pendulum floor lamp in polished brass and black-lacquered metal. The eccentric oval lampshade is
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Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps

Materials

Metal, Brass

Mid-century Metal Floor Lamp by Sabine Charoy, 1980s
By Sabine Charoy
Located in LEGNY, FR
pendulum floor lamp, the chrome lamps model 10367, the floor lamp for sofa 10592..." This floor lamp is in
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Vintage 1980s French Floor Lamps

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Metal, Aluminum

Floor Lamp with Pendulum, Counter-Weight and Patella by Maison Lunel
By Maison Lunel
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Floor lamp with pendulum in black lacquered metal and brass, composed of a circular base in black
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20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps

Floor Lamp with Pendulum, Counter-Weight and Patella by Maison Lunel
By Royal Lumière, Maison Lunel
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Floor lamp with pendulum in black lacquered metal and brass, composed of a circular base in black
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20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps

Materials

Brass

Italian Chrome Pendulum Lamp, Mid-20th Century
Located in Greding, DE
Fantastic italian Chrome Floor Lamp, mid-20th Century.
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps

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Chrome

Italian Chrome Pendulum Lamp, Mid-20th Century
Italian Chrome Pendulum Lamp, Mid-20th Century
H 55.12 in W 43.31 in D 11.03 in
Sabine Charoy Ceiling Light Model 20575 Verre Lumière Chrome Lacquer Minimalist
By Sabine Charoy, Verre Lumière
Located in Munster, NRW
Lumière models, including a large pendulum floor lamp, the chrome lamps model 10367, the sofa floor lamp
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Vintage 1980s French Post-Modern Chandeliers and Pendants

Materials

Aluminum, Chrome

Pendulum Floor Lamp Maison Lunel, circa 1950
By Maison Lunel
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Floor lamp with pendulum, composed of a circular base sheathed in black leather, and certied with a
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Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps

Materials

Brass

Pendulum Floor Lamp Maison Lunel, circa 1950
Pendulum Floor Lamp Maison Lunel, circa 1950
H 70.87 in W 11.82 in D 19.69 in
1950s Pendulum Floor Lamp by Maison Lunel
By Maison Lunel
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Floor lamp with pendulum and ball joint in brass and black lacquered metal composed of a tripod
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20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps

Materials

Brass

1950s Pendulum Floor Lamp by Maison Lunel
1950s Pendulum Floor Lamp by Maison Lunel
H 70.87 in W 35.44 in D 16.54 in
Pendulum Floor Lamps, Maison Lunel circa 1950
By Maison Lunel
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
floor lamps, composed of a circular base in cast iron sheathed in black leather, and set with a
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20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps

Materials

Brass

Pendulum Floor Lamps, Maison Lunel circa 1950
Pendulum Floor Lamps, Maison Lunel circa 1950
H 70.87 in W 11.82 in D 18.51 in
Pendulum Floor Lamps, Maison Lunel circa 1950
By Maison Lunel
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Pair of brass floor lamps, composed of a circular base in cast iron sheathed in black leather, and
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20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps

Materials

Brass

Pendulum Floor Lamps, Maison Lunel circa 1950
Pendulum Floor Lamps, Maison Lunel circa 1950
H 70.87 in W 11.82 in D 18.51 in
Pendulum Floor Lamps, Maison Lunel circa 1950
By Maison Lunel
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
fFoor lamps, composed of a circular base in cast iron sheathed in black leather, and set with a
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20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps

Materials

Brass

Floor Lamp with Pendulum, Counter-Weight and Patella by Maison Lunel
By Maison Lunel, Royal Lumière
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Floor lamp with pendulum in black lacquered metal and brass, composed of a circular base in black
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20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps

Materials

Brass

Maurice Flachet, Counterweight Floor Lamp, Guillemard Edition, Belgium, 1950
By Maurice Flachet
Located in Catonvielle, FR
Rare floor lamp with pendulum by Maurice Flachet, edited by Marcel Guillemard, Belgium, 1950
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Vintage 1950s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps

Materials

Brass

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20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Stools

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Wood, Pine

1 of 4 Charlotte Perriand Stools for Les Arcs, France 1960s
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$1,775
H 16.54 in W 17.72 in D 11.82 in
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$1,680 / item
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Panoplie Petite Iron Tripod Lamp
Located in Los Angeles, CA
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2010s Table Lamps

Materials

Iron

Panoplie Petite Iron Tripod Lamp
Panoplie Petite Iron Tripod Lamp
$925 / item
H 11.5 in Dm 6.25 in
Expertly Restored - California Modern Two-Tier Night Stand by Paul Laszlo
By Brown Saltman, Paul Laszlo
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Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Night Stands

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Wood, Mahogany, Walnut

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By Alessandra Delgado
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21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Floor Lamps

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A Mid-Century Bookshelf, Oak, France, c. 1950s
Located in Hønefoss, 30
A unique mid-century bookshelf with compass feet in oak, designed by unknown designer in France, c. 1950s.
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Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Bookcases

Materials

Oak

A Mid-Century Bookshelf, Oak, France, c. 1950s
A Mid-Century Bookshelf, Oak, France, c. 1950s
$3,232
H 42.13 in W 31.5 in D 9.06 in
Uhura large Brass 2 Arm Chandelier with movable arms and rotatable light shades
Located in London, GB
The Uhura II pendant is designed by Andrew in the Mid-Century modern style and made exclusively for Andrew Kornat Designs by an historic Spanish Lighting manufacturer with over 100 y...
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2010s Spanish Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants

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Brass

Brass Chandelier by Rupert Nikoll
By Emil Stejnar, Bakalowits & Söhne, Rupert Nikoll, Ernest Palme, J.T. Kalmar
Located in München, DE
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Brass Chandelier by Rupert Nikoll
Brass Chandelier by Rupert Nikoll
$3,551
H 39.38 in Dm 24.81 in
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Stunning Florian Schulz Double Posa Brass Pendant Lamp with Side Counter Weights
By Florian Schulz
Located in Berlin, DE
Really beautiful Florian Schulz double posa pendant lamp with one E 27 / model a bulb in brass.
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2010s German Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants

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Brass

Amuneal's Brass Pantry Cabinetry
By Amuneal
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Brass

Amuneal's Brass Pantry Cabinetry
Amuneal's Brass Pantry Cabinetry
$79,658 / item
H 95 in W 54 in D 25 in
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By Mandruzzato
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Glass

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Metal, Brass

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Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Sofas

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American Designer, Sofa, Oak, Velvet, USA, 1950s
American Designer, Sofa, Oak, Velvet, USA, 1950s
$13,900
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Pendulum Floor Lamp For Sale on 1stDibs

At 1stDibs, there are many versions of the ideal pendulum floor lamp for your home. Each pendulum floor lamp for sale was constructed with extraordinary care, often using metal, brass and chrome. There are 9 variations of the antique or vintage pendulum floor lamp you’re looking for, while we also have 1 modern editions of this piece to choose from as well. There are many kinds of the pendulum floor 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 pendulum floor lamp, designed in the Mid-Century Modern style, is generally a popular piece of furniture. A well-made pendulum floor lamp has long been a part of the offerings for many furniture designers and manufacturers, but those produced by Maison Lunel, Royal Lumière and Robert Mathieu are consistently popular.

How Much is a Pendulum Floor Lamp?

The average selling price for a pendulum floor lamp at 1stDibs is $3,330, while they’re typically $2,400 on the low end and $38,988 for the highest priced.

A Close Look at Mid-century Modern Furniture

Organically shaped, clean-lined and elegantly simple are three terms that well describe vintage mid-century modern furniture. The style, which emerged primarily in the years following World War II, is characterized by pieces that were conceived and made in an energetic, optimistic spirit by creators who believed that good design was an essential part of good living.

ORIGINS OF MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGN

CHARACTERISTICS OF MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGN

MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNERS TO KNOW

ICONIC MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNS

VINTAGE MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE ON 1STDIBS

The mid-century modern era saw leagues of postwar American architects and designers animated by new ideas and new technology. The lean, functionalist International-style architecture of Le Corbusier and Bauhaus eminences Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius had been promoted in the United States during the 1930s by Philip Johnson and others. New building techniques, such as “post-and-beam” construction, allowed the International-style schemes to be realized on a small scale in open-plan houses with long walls of glass.

Materials developed for wartime use became available for domestic goods and were incorporated into mid-century modern furniture designs. Charles and Ray Eames and Eero Saarinen, who had experimented extensively with molded plywood, eagerly embraced fiberglass for pieces such as the La Chaise and the Womb chair, respectively. 

Architect, writer and designer George Nelson created with his team shades for the Bubble lamp using a new translucent polymer skin and, as design director at Herman Miller, recruited the Eameses, Alexander Girard and others for projects at the legendary Michigan furniture manufacturer

Harry Bertoia and Isamu Noguchi devised chairs and tables built of wire mesh and wire struts. Materials were repurposed too: The Danish-born designer Jens Risom created a line of chairs using surplus parachute straps for webbed seats and backrests.

The Risom lounge chair was among the first pieces of furniture commissioned and produced by celebrated manufacturer Knoll, a chief influencer in the rise of modern design in the United States, thanks to the work of Florence Knoll, the pioneering architect and designer who made the firm a leader in its field. The seating that Knoll created for office spaces — as well as pieces designed by Florence initially for commercial clients — soon became desirable for the home.

As the demand for casual, uncluttered furnishings grew, more mid-century furniture designers caught the spirit.

Classically oriented creators such as Edward Wormley, house designer for Dunbar Inc., offered such pieces as the sinuous Listen to Me chaise; the British expatriate T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings switched gears, creating items such as the tiered, biomorphic Mesa table. There were Young Turks such as Paul McCobb, who designed holistic groups of sleek, blond wood furniture, and Milo Baughman, who espoused a West Coast aesthetic in minimalist teak dining tables and lushly upholstered chairs and sofas with angular steel frames.

Generations turn over, and mid-century modern remains arguably the most popular style going. As the collection of vintage mid-century modern chairs, dressers, coffee tables and other furniture for the living room, dining room, bedroom and elsewhere on 1stDibs demonstrates, this period saw one of the most delightful and dramatic flowerings of creativity in design history.

Finding the Right Floor-lamps for You

The modern floor lamp is an evolution of torchères — tall floor candelabras that originated in France as a revolutionary development in lighting homes toward the end of the 17th century. Owing to the advent of electricity and the introduction of new materials as a part of lighting design, floor lamps have taken on new forms and configurations over the years. 

In the early 1920s, Art Deco lighting artisans worked with dark woods and modern metals, introducing unique designs that still inspire the look of modern floor lamps developed by contemporary firms such as Luxxu

Popular mid-century floor lamps include everything from the enchanting fixtures by the Italian lighting artisans at Stilnovo to the distinctly functional Grasshopper floor lamp created by Scandinavian design pioneer Greta Magnusson-Grossman to the Paracarro floor lamp by the Venetian master glass workers at Mazzega. Among the more celebrated names in mid-century lighting design are Milanese innovators Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, who, along with their eldest brother, Livio, worked for their own firm as architects and designers. While Livio departed the practice in 1952, Achille and Pier Giacomo would go on to design the Arco floor lamp, the Toio floor lamp and more for legendary lighting brands such as FLOS

Today’s upscale interiors frequently integrate the otherworldly custom lighting solutions created by a wealth of contemporary firms and designers such as Spain’s Masquespacio, whose Wink floor lamps integrate gold as well as fabric fringes. 

Visual artists and industrial designers have a penchant for floor lamps, possibly because they’re so often a clever marriage of design and the functions of lighting. A good floor lamp can change the mood of any room while adding a touch of elegance to your entire space. Find yours now on 1stDibs.