A Pair of Mid-20th Century Cerulean Blue Lamps with Custom Velvet Pleated Shades
Located in Atlanta, GA
Pair of Porcelain Baluster-form table lamps beautifully glazed in a cerulean blue crackle finish.
Porcelain
Pleated Crystal Desk Lamp, Smoke Ribbed Glass and Brass with E26/27 Bulb
Located in London, GB
Our debut lighting collection comprising ceiling pendants, a side light and a floor standing lamp. Handmade in Bohemia and London the collection draws upon our love for Czech arti...
Brass
Pleated Crystal Desk Lamp, Clear Ribbed Glass and Brass with E26/27 Bulb
Located in London, GB
Our debut lighting collection comprising ceiling pendants, a side light and a floor standing lamp. Handmade in Bohemia and London the collection draws upon our love for Czech arti...
Brass
Pleated Crystal Floor Lamp, Clear Ribbed Glass and Brass with E26/27 Bulb
Located in London, GB
Our debut lighting collection comprising ceiling pendants, a side light and a floor standing lamp. Handmade in Bohemia and London the collection draws upon our love for Czech arti...
Brass
Pleated Crystal Floor Lamp, Smoke Ribbed Glass and Brass with E26/27 Bulb
Located in London, GB
Our debut lighting collection comprising ceiling pendants, a side light and a floor standing lamp. Handmade in Bohemia and London the collection draws upon our love for Czech arti...
Brass
Pleated Bell-Shaped Frosted Glass Shade
Located in London, GB
Pleated Bell-Shaped Satin Glass Shade With a flowing design and subtle purple hue. Diameter for the gallery or the lampshade hole: 3cm/1.18" Inches.
Glass
Cylindrical Handmade Black Pleated Silk Lampshade
By Fornasetti
Located in MILANO, IT
This cylindrical lampshade in silk with a metal frame is the ideal complement to create, together with the base, a lamp that becomes an art object. Any minor discrepancies between...
Wood
Box Pleat Linen Lampshade, Medium, by Bunny Williams Home
By Bunny Williams Home
Located in New York, NY
Scaled to work on nearly all of the Bunny Williams Home table lamps. Available in two sizes: Medium - 15” x 8" x 11” slope Large - 18” x 9" x 13” slope - Empire box pleat shade wit...
Linen
Box Pleat Linen Lampshade, Large, by Bunny Williams Home
By Bunny Williams Home
Located in New York, NY
Scaled to work on nearly all of the Bunny Williams Home table lamps. Available in two sizes: Medium - 15” x 8" x 11” slope Large - 18” x 9" x 13” slope - Empire box pleat shade wit...
Linen
Mid-Century Modern Chrome Tear-Drop Table Lamps by Robert Sonneman
By Robert Sonneman
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Pair of Chrome Tear-Drop Table Lamps with pleated shades. Shades fit on sockets but come with their original harps and finales.
Chrome
Vintage French Regency Style Brass Swans Candelabra Table Lamps - a Pair
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage French Regency Style Brass Swans Candelabra Table Lamps with Pleated Shades- a Pair. Circa Late 20th Century.
Brass
Eva Stæhr-Nielsen for Saxbo. Ceramic table lamp with Le Klint lampshade.
Located in København, Copenhagen
Eva Stæhr-Nielsen (1911–1976) for Saxbo, Denmark. Ceramic table lamp with pleated Le Klint lampshade. Modernist style.
Ceramic
Set of Curvy Table Lamps in Beech wood by Caprani, 1970s, Denmark
By Caprani Light AS
Located in Værløse, DK
* A set (2) of bend beech wood table lamps with pleated clip-on fabric shades. * Designer: Mads Caprani * Manufacturer: Caprani Light A/S Denmark * Year: 1970s * Condition: Good v...
Wood, Beech
Pleated Silk Sconce or Table Lamp By Eino Schroderus for Taidetakomo Koru
Located in Long Island City, NY
This charming design functions as either a table lamp or a sconce, providing soft light through a pleated, adjustable silk shade.
Brass
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Mid-Century Burnished Brass Turned Pillar Column Lamps with Pleated Shades
Located in Lomita, CA
There is so much to love about this vintage pair of mid-century table lamps. particularly the patina and the condition.
Brass
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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