White & Chrome 1950’s Mid Century Modern Greta Von Nessen Pivoting Desk Lamp
By Greta Von Nessen
Located in Las Vegas, NV
White & Chrome 1950’s Mid Century Modern Greta Von Nessen Pivoting Desk Lamp A refined and understated vintage desk lamp attributed to Greta Von Nessen, known for her elegant ...
Chrome
SERIES04 Pivot-Arm Desk Lamp, Polish Unlacquered Brass, Goatskin Parchment Shade
By Adam Otlewski
Located in Ozone Park, NY
Solid machined brass and goatskin parchment shade with hand-dyed braided cotton cord. Adjustable pivot arm. Shades are made from genuine goatskin parchment, hand-selected for each ...
Brass
Series04 Pivot-Arm Desk Lamp, Dark Patinated Brass, Goatskin Parchment Shade
By Adam Otlewski
Located in Ozone Park, NY
Solid machined brass and goatskin parchment shade with hand-dyed braided cotton cord. Adjustable pivot arm. Shades are made from genuine goatskin parchment, hand-selected for each ...
Brass
Continental Art Nouveau Style Brass Desk Lamp w/ Pivoting Glass Shade, Mid-20thC
Located in Atlanta, GA
The arched standard accented by a scrolling support and raised on a circular brass base. The shade pivots to direct light as desired. Nicely patinated throughout.
Brass
Koch & Lowy Chromed Articulating Desk Lamp
By Koch & Lowy
Located in North Miami, FL
This is a wonderful and original signed Koch & Lowy pivoting chromed desk lamp with tent shade diffuser.
Chrome
Mid Century Modern Flying Saucer Sight Light Desk Lamp
By M.G. Wheeler
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Wheeler flying saucer lamp. Rare square base allows the lamp to pivot 360 degrees.
Brass, Steel
Pivot LED Desk or Table Lamp with Articulating Arms in Patinated Brass
By Christopher Gentner
Located in Chicago, IL
Available in the single sconce, double sconce and desk lamp version and in both polished tarnished, darkened, hand rubbed brass finishes.
Brass
Bronze Pivoting Desk Lamp, German, 1960s
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Brass and bronze pivoting desk lamp, the brass shade set off to one side, hinged both at base and at shade, on rectangular base, German, 1960s.
Brass
Pair of Koch and Lowy Desk Lamps
By Koch & Lowy
Located in New York, NY
Pair of Koch and Lowy pivoting desk lamp, circa 1970. Plated in natural copper finish.
Midcentury Bauhaus Desk Lamp with Pivoting Canopy
Located in London, GB
Midcentury desk or table lamp Painted black metal base with flexible goose neck and piviting aluminium canopy shade Measures: H 43cm, W 23cm, D 40cm Germany, circa 1950.
Metal
Italian Midcentury Chrome Desk Lamp with Pivoting Reflector
Located in London, GB
Midcentury bankers lamp in chrome with stylish curved stem and piviting reflector Measures: H 42cm, W 27cm, D 33cm Italy, circa 1960.
Chrome
Spectacular Modernist Art Deco Desk Lamp by Donald Deskey
By Donald Deskey
Located in Mount Penn, PA
Superb Chrome Art Deco Desk lamp that pivots and allows you to adjust the light beneficial to your task.A Rare Substantial Design By Modernist Art Deco Designer Donald Deskey.Compris...
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H 20 in W 12.25 in D 10 in
Sexy French Pivot Table Desk Lamp Style Serge Mouille France 1950s Clamp Light
By Serge Mouille
Located in Chula Vista, CA
Modern artistic style attributed to insect like design of Agrafee Pivot desk lamp by Serge Mouille. No maker stamp is visible.
Brass
Jacques Adnet Desk with Lamp
By Jacques Adnet
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Incredible leather writing desk by Jacques Adnet with attached pivoting desk lamp.
Brass
Modernist Mid-Century Pivoting Brass Desk Lamp
Located in New York, NY
Modernist Mid-Century desk lamp in brass. Features 3/4 circle form brass shade that pivots on two cubist supports.
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H 13.19 in W 15.75 in D 1.97 in
Rare Baltensweiler Table/Desk Lamp Pivoting Function Swiss, 1960s
By Rosemarie & Rico Baltensweiler
Located in Berlin, DE
Wonderful and rare Rosemarie & Rico Baltensweiler desk / table / working lamp with pivoting / swivel function (shade).
Metal, Aluminum
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H 11.82 in W 15.75 in D 7.29 in
Tecnolumen Desk Table Lamp Black Shade Brass Metal 1970s Pivoting Joints
By Tecnolumen
Located in Berlin, DE
Beautiful desk or table or side lamp mit chromed metal parts, brass elements and black shade.
Metal, Brass
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H 16 in W 9 in D 6 in
Vintage Mid Century Modern Burnished Brass Pivoting Bankers Desk Table Lamp
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage Mid Century Modern Burnished Brass Pivoting Small Bankers Desk Table Lamp. Circa Mid 20th Century.
Brass
1910 Bronze and Emerlite Table or Desk Lamp with Pivot Hinge
Located in New York, NY
Bronze and emerlite desk lamp from 1910. This item can be viewed at our 149 Madison Avenue location in Manhattan.
Bronze
Sonneman desk lamp
By Robert and Richard Sonneman
Located in Chicago, IL
Smoked lucite and anodized aluminum desk lamp with pivoting shade by Sonneman.
Aluminum
Arteluce Desk Lamp
By Arteluce
Located in Cincinnati, OH
A dark gray industrial styled desk lamp with pivoting head,chrome detail,heavily weighted base and upper bulb grill.
Metal, Chrome
Bernard Albin Gras Desk Lamp
By Bernard-albin Gras
Located in New York, NY
Lamps Gras desk lamp with pivoting base and (2) points of movement.
Metal
Pair of perforated brass desk lamps
Located in Dallas, TX
Amazingly well made pair of brass desk lamps with pivoting arms and articulated heads.
Agrafee Desk Lamp by Serge Mouille
By Serge Mouille
Located in Stratford, CT
Clamp desk lamp with pivoting arm. At 26 inches at their highest, these lamps may affix to many surfaces providing direct lighting where it is needed.
Metal
Cedric Hartman Patinated Brass Desk / Table Lamp
By Cedric Hartman
Located in Dallas, TX
A patinated brass desk lamp with pivoting hood and rotating base designed by Cedric Hartman.
Brass
Brass Desk Lamp Koch and Lowy OMI
By Koch & Lowy
Located in Rochester, NY
Adjustable height brass desk lamp with pivoting shade by Koch and Lowy. Signed OMI.
Brass
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H 23.63 in W 9.85 in D 6.7 in
1970s Brass & Marble Articulated Desk Lamp // Italian Angle-poise Reading Light
By Hillebrand
Located in Torquay, GB
The angle-poise is adjustable up to 90° angle and is mounted on a 360° pivot. Very masculine desk lamp, suitable for an office or an opulent drawing room.
Belgian Black Marble, Brass
Koch & Lowy Chrome Lamp
By Koch & Lowy
Located in Asbury Park, NJ
This versatile chrome Koch & Lowy swing-arm desk lamp pivots and adjusts to a variety of positions.
Telescoping Reading Lamps By O'Luce
By O-Luce
Located in Sagaponack, NY
Innovative and highly adjustable telescoping floor/desk lamps with pivoting cone shades on enameled and chromed steel stems with ball-and-socket jointed weighted disc bases.
Steel, Aluminum
Vintage Verner Panton Flower Pot Table Lamp
Located in Peabody, MA
Vintage Verner Panton Flowerpot arc desk lamp with pivoting shade, ca. 1960s, in vibrant orange.
Chrome
Pair of Visor Lamps by Arne Jacobsen
Located in Sagaponack, NY
An almost perfect large size pair of black metal visor desk lamps, with pivoting offset funnel shades on pierced egg-form cast iron bases.
Brass, Iron
Gae Aulenti for Artemide Pileo-Mezzo Pileo Lamp
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Plastic Desk Lamp with pivoting shade set atop a fixed base.
Chrome
Model 6566 Table Lamps by Kaiser Idell, Denmark, Circa 1930
By Kaiser Idell
Located in Culver City, CA
Model 6566 table lamps by Kaiser Idell Denmark Circa 1930 Articulating enameled metal desk lamps with pivoting shade and makers mark.
Metal
Sabine Charoy for Stilnovo Table Lamp, 1970
By Sabine Charoy, Stilnovo
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Rare pivoting desk lamp by Sabine Charoy for Stilnovo, Italy 1970, white enameled metal and chrome, wired for US standards, two E12 sockets, max. wattage 60w each or 3-7w LED equival...
Metal, Steel, Chrome
Patinated Brass Pivoting Banker's Desk Lamp
Located in Sagaponack, NY
An Industrial patinated brass banker's desk lamp with a pivoting, height-adjustable arm.
Brass, Iron
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.
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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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