KAZUKI 3 Model Floor Lamp
By Kazuhide Takahama, Sirrah
Located in Toronto, CA
This structured yet soft floor lamp by Japanese designer Kazuhide Takahama (1930 – 2010) is made of elasticized jersey fabric over a metal frame. Recalling East Asian paper lanterns,...
Metal
$2,555 / item
Spar Floor Lamp by Resident
Located in Geneve, CH
Spar Floor Lamp by Resident Dimensions: W 146 x D 146 x H 187 cm Materials: Aluminium, Steel. Weight: 12.2 Kg. About: Founded by Simon James & Scott Bridgens in 2011, Resident is t...
Aluminum, Steel
$3,264 / item
Wendu Floor Lamp by DAaZ
Located in Geneve, CH
Wendu Floor Lamp by DAaZ Dimensions: D 47.5 x H 174 cm. Materials: Aluminum, fabric. All our lamps can be wired according to each country. If sold to the USA it will be wired for th...
Aluminum
$3,136 / item
B4 Floor Lamp by Disderot
Located in Geneve, CH
B4 Floor Lamp by Disderot Limited Edition. Designed by René-Jean Caillette. Dimensions: Ø 30 x H 150 cm. Materials: Walnut, plexiglass and polished stainless steel. Delivered with ...
Brass
$4,298 / item
Oto Floor Lamp by Laboratorio
Located in Geneve, CH
Oto Floor Lamp by Laboratorio Dimensions: Ø 80 x H 190 cm. Materials: Satin/galvanized steel and marble. Different marble and metal options are available. All our lamps can be wired...
Marble, Steel
$6,192 / item
Foundry Floor Lamp by Resident
Located in Geneve, CH
Foundry Floor Lamp by Resident Dimensions: W 28 x D 18 x H 190 cm Materials: Bronze, Aluminium, Acrylic. Weight: 12 Kg. About: Founded by Simon James & Scott Bridgens in 2011, Resi...
Aluminum, Bronze
$3,415 / item
Cross Floor Lamp by DUISTT
Located in Geneve, CH
Cross Floor Lamp by DUISTT Dimensions: W 50 x D 50 x H 154 cm Materials: Black Iron and Brass CROSS lamp, crafted with great attention to detail, is a piece with a base in a cross s...
Brass, Iron
$23,002 / item
Monolith Floor Lamp by Atelier Dutré
Located in Geneve, CH
Monolith Floor Lamp by Atelier Dutré Dimensions: W 90 × D 25 × H 165 cm Materials: Black Smoke Soapstone All our lamps can be wired according to each country. If sold to the USA it ...
Soapstone
$6,414 / item
Alma Floor Lamp by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Alma Floor Lamp by Arcahorn Dimensions: D 54 x H 188 cm Materials: Horn, leather, brass. Floor lamp in dark horn and Tosca leather (cat. Super), black color. Gunmetal brass detailin...
Brass
Italian Postmodern Torchiere Floor Lamp
Located in Norwalk, CT
This simple but elegant glass lamp. Channeled glass support rod topped with small frosted glass uplight shade. Halogen bulb with slide dimmer on floor cord. Heavy weighted base in ch...
Glass
$20,408 / item
Ninho Floor Lamp by Mameluca
Located in Geneve, CH
Ninho floor lamp by Mameluca Material: maçaranduba, african mahogany, faya Dimensions: D 220x W 100 x H 190 cm All our lamps can be wired according to each country. If sold to t...
Wood, Mahogany
$2,218 / item
Famed Floor Lamp by Lagu
Located in Geneve, CH
Famed floor lamp by Lagu. Designed by Ufuk Ceylan. Dimensions: Ø 26 x H 182 cm. Materials: Metal, Marble. While the organic form of the marble and brass combination carries the...
Marble, Metal
$5,146 / item
Curva Floor Lamp by Laluz
Located in Geneve, CH
Curva Floor Lamp by Laluz Dimensions: W 42 x D 42 x H 175 cm Materials: Bronze, Guarango Wood, Pvc, Synthetic Fibers. Weight: 55 kg. LaLuz Design is a young, dynamic company that sp...
Bronze
$1,600Sale Price|20% Off
Floor Lamp Attributed to F. Fabbian
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This floor lamp—attributed to the Italian lighting manufacturer F. Fabbian—embodies the bold aesthetic characteristic of the postmodern Memphis-era style of the 1980s. Finished in a ...
Metal
$5,483 / item
Ghost Floor Lamp by Resident
Located in Geneve, CH
Ghost Floor Lamp by Resident Dimensions: D 23 x H 131.4 cm Materials: Borosilicate Glass, Aluminium, Steel, Silicone. Weight: 19.5 Kg. About: Founded by Simon James & Scott Bridgen...
Aluminum, Steel
$2,479 / item
Mudziira Floor Lamp by Theurbanative
Located in Geneve, CH
Mudziira floor lamp by TheUrbanative Dimensions: 45 x 45 x H 152 cm Material: Powder-coated steel frame work Limesite stone base Light bulb excluded: Recommended light bulb E27 ...
Steel, Other
$14,126 / item
Floor Lamp by Gentner Design
By Christopher Gentner
Located in Geneve, CH
Floor lamp by Gentner Design Dimensions: D 22.8 x W 22.8 x H 208 cm Materials: darkened brass All our lamps can be wired according to each country. If sold to the USA it will be...
Brass
Rustic Modern Design Sculpted Floor Lamp with Vertical Wooden by Jérôme Pereira
By Jérôme Pereira
Located in Geneve, CH
Poulie Sculpted Floor Lighting by Jérôme Pereira Edition: Unique. Title: Poulie Composition: Blown glass, beech, oak. Lighting by the French artist Jérôme Pereira Dimensions: 220 x 3...
Blown Glass, Beech, Oak
$2,044 / item
Circles Floor Lamp by Dainte
Located in Geneve, CH
Circles Floor Lamp by Dainte Dimensions: Ø 40 x H 62.51 cm. Materials: Glass and brass. Introducing the stunning Floor Lamp made with brass circles. Designed with elegance in mind,...
Brass
$4,147 / item
10527 Floor Lamp by Disderot
Located in Geneve, CH
10527 Floor Lamp by Disderot Limited Edition. Designed by Michel Mortier Dimensions: Ø 39,7 x H 160 cm. Materials: Lacquered aluminum and opaline. Delivered with authentication cer...
Aluminum
$4,148 / item
10527 Floor Lamp by Disderot
Located in Geneve, CH
10527 Floor Lamp by Disderot Limited Edition. Designed by Michel Mortier Dimensions: Ø 39,7 x H 160 cm. Materials: Lacquered aluminum and opaline. Delivered with authentication cer...
Aluminum
$4,147 / item
10527 Floor Lamp by Disderot
Located in Geneve, CH
10527 Floor Lamp by Disderot Limited Edition. Designed by Michel Mortier Dimensions: Ø 39,7 x H 160 cm. Materials: Lacquered aluminum and opaline. Delivered with authentication cer...
Aluminum
Vintage italian design floor lamp, 1990s
Located in Leuven, Vlaams Gewest
Vintage chrome and milk glass 'diabolo' design floor lamp. Beautiful timeless design. The top and bottom shades can be lit individually. Labeled Studio Design Italia Tested and ...
Chrome
$1,940 / item
Venice Laguna Floor Lamp by Morici
Located in Geneve, CH
Venice Laguna Floor Lamp by Morici Dimensions: W 30 x D 30 x H 150 cm, Lampshade H 30 cm Materials: Wood, inlay veneer. Finish : Gloss brushed polyester. Featuring motifs inspired b...
Wood
$1,940 / item
Venice Rialto Floor Lamp by Morici
Located in Geneve, CH
Venice Rialto Floor Lamp by Morici Dimensions: W 30 x D 30 x H 150 cm, Lampshade H 30 cm Materials: Wood, inlay veneer. Finish : Gloss brushed polyester. Featuring motifs inspired b...
Wood
$1,940 / item
Venice Mestre Floor Lamp by Morici
Located in Geneve, CH
Venice Mestre Floor Lamp by Morici Dimensions: W 30 x D 30 x H 150 cm, Lampshade H 30 cm Materials: Wood, inlay veneer. Finish : Gloss brushed polyester. Featuring motifs inspired b...
Wood
$1,940 / item
Venice Sestiere Floor Lamp by Morici
Located in Geneve, CH
Venice Sestiere Floor Lamp by Morici Dimensions: W 30 x D 30 x H 150 cm, Lampshade H 30 cm Materials: Wood, inlay veneer. Finish : Gloss brushed polyester. Featuring motifs inspired...
Wood
$3,159 / item
Rhythm Brass Dome Floor Lamp by Lamp Shaper
Located in Geneve, CH
Rhythm Brass Dome Floor Lamp by Lamp Shaper Dimensions: D 42 x W 42 x H 152.5 cm. Materials: Brass. Different finishes available: raw brass, aged brass, burnt brass and brushed bras...
Brass
$3,159 / item
Wing Brass Dome Floor Lamp by Lamp Shaper
Located in Geneve, CH
Wing Brass Dome Floor Lamp by Lamp Shaper Dimensions: D 51 x W 51 x H 160 cm. Materials: Brass. Different finishes available: raw brass, aged brass, burnt brass and brushed brass Pl...
Brass
$3,159 / item
Drop Brass Dome Floor Lamp by Lamp Shaper
Located in Geneve, CH
Drop Brass Dome Floor Lamp by Lamp Shaper Dimensions: D 38 x W 38 x H 160 cm. Materials: Brass. Different finishes available: raw brass, aged brass, burnt brass and brushed brass Pl...
Brass
$1,254 / item
Lingara Floor Lamp by Deetee Home
Located in Geneve, CH
Lingara Floor Lamp by Deetee Home Dimensions: D 40 x H 152.4 cm Materials: Fibre-reinforced plastic The Lingara Floor Lamp features a sculptural silhouette with smooth curves and a ...
Plastic
Floor Lamp by Casella Lighting
By Casella Lighting
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
The lamp has many details, it is not wired, the light bulb is out, it is unstable and part of the chrome is falling off, it is practically to be restored. If you have any questions, ...
Chrome
$3,891 / item
Dome Floor Lamp by Mingardo
Located in Geneve, CH
Dome floor lamp by Mingardo Dimensions: D28x H135 cm Materials: Burnished iron structure with copper details, blown glass. Weight: 15 kg Also Available in different finishes. ...
Copper, Iron
$18,680 / item
Big Grun’ Floor Lamp by Faina
By Victoria Yakusha
Located in Geneve, CH
Big Grun’ Floor Lamp by Faina Limited Edition of 48 Dimensions: W 72 x D 68 x H 155 cm Material: Ztista, glass blowing. The Grun’ lamp is handcrafted, combining the signature eco-c...
Blown Glass
$2,671 / item
Terra Floor Lamp by Luis Gimeno
Located in Geneve, CH
Terra Floor Lamp by Luis Gimeno Dimensions: W 22 x D 22 x H 34 cm Materials: Quartz Sand. This floor lamp is the biggest of this collection. Is made using the latest 3D printing te...
Sandstone
$3,159 / item
Rhythm Glass Globe Floor Lamp by Lamp Shaper
Located in Geneve, CH
Rhythm Glass Globe Floor Lamp by Lamp Shaper Dimensions: D 41 x W 41 x H 152.5 cm. Materials: Brass and glass. Different finishes available: raw brass, aged brass, burnt brass and b...
Brass
$3,461 / item
Fly Glass Globe Floor Lamp by Lamp Shaper
Located in Geneve, CH
Fly Glass Globe Floor Lamp by Lamp Shaper Dimensions: D 20.5 x W 25.5 x H 173 cm. Materials: Brass and glass. Different finishes available: raw brass, aged brass, burnt brass and br...
Brass
Hemi Floor Lamp: Blown Glass and Steel Floor Lamp in Fire Engine Red Finish
Located in York, CA
The Hemi floor lamp, part of our hemi series, utilizes a hand-blown glass hemisphere as it’s focal point. The minimal steel structure can be customized to any dimensions. The glass h...
Steel
$6,726 / item
Roller Floor Lamp by United Alabaster
Located in Geneve, CH
Roller Floor Lamp by United Alabaster Dimensions: ⌀ 35 x H 115 cm (Customizable Height) Materials: Alabaster, Copper (Matt Black finish) Also Available: Satin Gold, Nickel, Matt Blac...
Alabaster, Copper
$4,612 / item
Reflex Floor Lamp by United Alabaster
Located in Geneve, CH
Reflex Floor Lamp by United Alabaster Dimensions: ⌀ 28 x H 184 cm (Customizable Height) Materials: Alabaster, Copper (Matt Black finish) Also Available: Satin Gold, Nickel, Matt Blac...
Alabaster, Copper
Native Limited Edition Modern Sand and Nylon Floor Lamp by Hot Wire Extensions
Located in Geneve, CH
Native Limited Edition Modern Sand and Nylon Floor Lamp by Hot Wire Extensions Limited edition Materials: Waste SLS 3D nylon powder, Sand from sustainable sources Dimensions: L 28 x ...
Nylon
Tinted Lucite and Wood Tótem Form Floor Lamp by Pearsall for Modeline c. 1970’s
By Adrian Pearsall, Modeline Lamp Co.
Located in New York, NY
Exceptional mid century, post modern tótem form floor lamp, designed by Adrian Pearsall, for the Modeline Lamp Company, circa 1960/70’s.
Chrome
$5,982 / item
Cray Floor Lamp by Frederic Texier
Located in Geneve, CH
Clay Floor Lamp by Frederic Texier Dimensions: W 32 x D 26 x H 172 cm. Materials: Concrete coated with lime and cement Metal part : brass Lampshade : linen. Color: Clay. Artist Fr...
Concrete, Bronze, Steel
Telescopic Brass Floor Standing Lamp Swivel Angle Reading Lamp
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
Telescopic Brass Floor Standing Lamp Swivel Angle Reading Lamp This charming floor Standing Study lamp, can be raised and lowered, it can be angled and swivelled for best advantage ...
Brass
Vintage Postmodern Minimalist Floor Lamp, 1980s
Located in Hamburg, DE
Vintage Postmodern Minimalist Floor Lamp, 1980s, in Very Good conditions. Designed 1980 to 1989 European Plug (up to 250V). The wiring of this item may be original and might need rep...
Metal
Art Deco Style Post Modern Brass and Neutral Toned Stone Torchiere Lamp
Located in Keego Harbor, MI
Experience the epitome of sophistication with this Art Deco-inspired Post Modern Torchiere Lamp, seamlessly blending richly textured stone and gleaming brass accents. Meticulously cr...
Brass
$4,635 / item
Tour Floor Lamp by G.Luce
Located in Geneve, CH
Tour Floor Lamp by G.Luce Dimensions: W 75 x D 49 x H 174 cm Materials: Natural Brushed Oak and Percalline Lampshade. Weight: 8.6 Kg. G.Luce is the result of a thirty-year history...
Oak
$2,497 / item
Pixy Floor Lamp by G.Luce
Located in Geneve, CH
Pixy Floor Lamp by G.Luce Dimensions: D 32 x H 162 cm Materials: Brass Structure Bronze Finish Percaline Lampshade. Weight: 7.5 Kg. G.Luce is the result of a thirty-year history o...
Brass
$2,276 / item
Twist Etiola Floor Lamp by LAFABLIGHT
Located in Geneve, CH
Twist Etiola Floor Lamp by LAFABLIGHT Dimensions: D 80 x H 175 cm Materials: Wooden structure woven with ecru cotton, cable with wall plug. LAFABLIGHT was born from a meeting betwee...
Cotton, Wood
$3,194 / item
Upper Floor Lamp by Hervé Langlais
Located in Geneve, CH
Upper floor lamp by Hervé Langlais Dimensions: D 60 x H 200 cm Materials: Solid brass, Lampshade Drop Paper® M1, Black textile cable (2m). Others finishes are available. All ou...
Brass
Vintage Boho Washed Bobbin Floor Lamp
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
This striking pair of vintage floor lamps is a masterclass in organic, sculptural design, offering an authoritative presence for the contemporary home. Expertly crafted with a rhythm...
Metal
Ami Floor Lamp by Garnier Pingree
By Asa Pingree
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Experimenting with steel mesh as a design material, we often find the studio filled with random shapes crowding out a tabletop like a little city skyline of uniform grids. The mesh w...
Steel
$2,683 / item
Zena Floor Lamp by G.Luce
Located in Geneve, CH
Zena Floor Lamp by G.Luce Dimensions: W 43 x D 43 x H 164 cm Materials: Brass Structure Light Satin Gold or Black Nickel Finish, Opal Glass Lampshade. Weight: 12.5 Kg. G.Luce is t...
Brass
$3,183 / item
Generator Floor Lamp by G.Luce
Located in Geneve, CH
Generator Floor Lamp by G.Luce Dimensions: D 22 x H 169 cm Materials: Satin Plexiglass Structure Brass Hemispheres, Brass Ceiling Brackets Bronze Finish. Weight: 8.8 Kg. G.Luce i...
Satin, Plexiglass
$6,133 / item
Gvpo Floor Lamp by Kutarq Studio
By Kutarq Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Gvpo Floor Lamp by Kutarq Studio Materials: Aluminum. Dimensions: D 21 x W 16 x H 135 cm Customized lengths are possible. Matt aluminum, patinated by hand, 3D printed PLA base (silv...
Aluminum
$2,532 / item
Storm Floor Lamp by Emilie Cathelineau
Located in Geneve, CH
Storm floor lamp by Emilie Cathelineau Dimensions: D 26 x W 7 x H 146 cm Materials: Solid brass, white polycarbonate. Others finishes are available. All our lamps can be wired ...
Brass
Multiplo Floor Lamp by Microdata Milano
Located in Asbury Park, NJ
'Multiplo' by Microdata Milano, a monolithic dimmable halogen floor lamp in steel with bright yellow accents at base.
Steel
Postmodern design was a short-lived movement that manifested itself chiefly in Italy and the United States in the early 1980s. The characteristics of vintage postmodern furniture and other postmodern objects and decor for the home included loud-patterned, usually plastic surfaces; strange proportions, vibrant colors and weird angles; and a vague-at-best relationship between form and function.
ORIGINS OF POSTMODERN FURNITURE DESIGN
CHARACTERISTICS OF POSTMODERN FURNITURE DESIGN
POSTMODERN FURNITURE DESIGNERS TO KNOW
VINTAGE POSTMODERN FURNITURE ON 1STDIBS
Critics derided postmodern design as a grandstanding bid for attention and nothing of consequence. Decades later, the fact that postmodernism still has the power to provoke thoughts, along with other reactions, proves they were not entirely correct.
Postmodern design began as an architectural critique. Starting in the 1960s, a small cadre of mainly American architects began to argue that modernism, once high-minded and even noble in its goals, had become stale, stagnant and blandly corporate. Later, in Milan, a cohort of creators led by Ettore Sottsass and Alessandro Mendini — a onetime mentor to Sottsass and a key figure in the Italian Radical movement — brought the discussion to bear on design.
Sottsass, an industrial designer, philosopher and provocateur, gathered a core group of young designers into a collective in 1980 they called Memphis. Members of the Memphis Group, which would come to include Martine Bedin, Michael Graves, Marco Zanini, Shiro Kuramata, Michele de Lucchi and Matteo Thun, saw design as a means of communication, and they wanted it to shout. That it did: The first Memphis collection appeared in 1981 in Milan and broke all the modernist taboos, embracing irony, kitsch, wild ornamentation and bad taste.
Memphis works remain icons of postmodernism: the Sottsass Casablanca bookcase, with its leopard-print plastic veneer; de Lucchi’s First chair, which has been described as having the look of an electronics component; Martine Bedin’s Super lamp: a pull-toy puppy on a power-cord leash. Even though it preceded the Memphis Group’s formal launch, Sottsass’s iconic Ultrafragola mirror — in its conspicuously curved plastic shell with radical pops of pink neon — proves striking in any space and embodies many of the collective’s postmodern ideals.
After the initial Memphis show caused an uproar, the postmodern movement within furniture and interior design quickly took off in America. (Memphis fell out of fashion when the Reagan era gave way to cool 1990’s minimalism.) The architect Robert Venturi had by then already begun a series of plywood chairs for Knoll Inc., with beefy, exaggerated silhouettes of traditional styles such as Queen Anne and Chippendale. In 1982, the new firm Swid Powell enlisted a group of top American architects, including Frank Gehry, Richard Meier, Stanley Tigerman and Venturi to create postmodern tableware in silver, ceramic and glass.
On 1stDibs, the vintage postmodern furniture collection includes chairs, coffee tables, sofas, decorative objects, table lamps and more.
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.