$3,200 / set
Pair of Italian Monolith Floor Lamps
Located in Asbury Park, NJ
A pair of towering Postmodern Italian floor lamps in steel. The lamp heads adjust up and down the top third of the rail and articulate left and right. The halogen light is dimmable v...
$3,833 / item
Wendy Floor Lamp by Nish Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Wendy Floor Lamp by Nish Studio Dimensions: ⌀ 47 x H 210 cm Materials: Fabric N I S H is a Cape Town based Fashion and Furniture design studio. N I S H creates contemporary, elegan...
Fabric
$28,369 / item
Totem Floor Lamp by Valentina Giovando
Located in Geneve, CH
Totem Floor Lamp by Valentina Giovando Dimensions: D 50 x H 200 cm. Materials: Iron, Fiberglass, Glass, Crystal. Valentina Giovando, Lives and works in Sarzana, in Liguria, and fo...
Crystal, Iron
$3,148 / item
Totem Floor Lamp by Gabor Gobi
Located in Geneve, CH
Totem Floor Lamp by Gabor Gobi Unique Piece. Dimensions: D 18 x W 30 x H 109 cm. Materials: Pine wood and stone. This distinctive floor lamp emanates from an artfully repurposed age...
Stone
$813 / item
Molly Floor Lamp by SLIDE Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Molly Floor Lamp by SLIDE Studio Dimensions: Ø 52 x H 41 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. This product is suitable for indoor and outdoor use. All our lamps can be wired according to ea...
Other
$6,389 / item
Dino Floor Lamp by SLIDE Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Dino Floor Lamp by SLIDE Studio Dimensions: Ø 117 x H 160 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. This product is suitable for indoor and outdoor use. All our lamps can be wired according to e...
Other
$1,800 / item
Cono Floor Lamp by SLIDE Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Cono Floor Lamp by SLIDE Studio Dimensions: Ø 53 x H 150 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Available in different sizes. Prices may vary. This product is suitable for indoor and outdoor ...
Other
$4,763 / item
Cucun Floor Lamp by Lorenza Bozzoli
Located in Geneve, CH
Cucun Floor Lamp by Lorenza Bozzoli Dimensions: Ø 77 x H 190 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. This product is suitable for indoor and outdoor use. All our lamps can be wired according t...
Other
$1,626 / item
Black Bloom Floor Lamp by Resident
Located in Geneve, CH
Black Bloom Floor Lamp by Resident Dimensions: D 27.5 x H 133 cm Materials: Glass, Steel. The Bloom Pendant’s super-elliptical form is inspired by the gentle dynamic flow of paper ...
Steel
$1,626 / item
White Bloom Floor Lamp by Resident
Located in Geneve, CH
White Bloom Floor Lamp by Resident Dimensions: D 27.5 x H 133 cm Materials: Glass, Steel. The Bloom Pendant’s super-elliptical form is inspired by the gentle dynamic flow of paper ...
Steel
$12,267 / item
Tougarine Floor Lamp by Aède Studios
Located in Geneve, CH
Tougarine Floor Lamp by Aède Studios Dimensions: D 28 x W 43 x H 163 cm. Materials: Figured mahogany. Dimmable light with a halogen bulb. Available in figured mahogany or in oak. ...
Wood
$7,667 / item
Folio Floor Lamp by Kutarq Studio
By Kutarq Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Folio Floor Lamp by Kutarq Studio Materials: Stainless steel. Dimensions: D 35 x W 45 x H 43 cm Inox steel patinated by hand, warm LED lightsource 21.6W/700mA 2.700K dimmable, 3d pr...
Stainless Steel
$3,822 / item
Balestra Floor Lamp by G.Luce
Located in Geneve, CH
Balestra Floor Lamp by G.Luce Dimensions: W 22 x D 58 x H 203 cm Materials: Marble and Brass Base, Satin Light Gold Finish Lampshade either opal Glass, Satinated Glass, or Aluminium....
Marble, Brass
$4,553 / item
Alma Nueva Floor Lamp by Ayres
Located in Geneve, CH
Alma Nueva Floor Lamp by Ayres Dimensions: D 25 x H 149 cm Materials: Sand Travertine At AYRES we design utilitarian objects and furniture with a primary aesthetic. Our basic shape...
Travertine
$3,159 / item
Gleam Floor Lamp by Euroluce Lampadari
Located in Geneve, CH
Gleam Floor Lamp by Euroluce Lampadari Dimensions: Ø 32 x H 165 cm. Materials: Metal and glass. Available in different colors. Prices may vary. All our lamps can be wired according ...
Metal
$1,905 / item
Atollo Floor Lamp by Euroluce Lampadari
Located in Geneve, CH
Atollo Floor Lamp by Euroluce Lampadari Dimensions: Ø 30 x H 150 cm. Materials: Metal and glass. Available in different colors. Prices may vary. All our lamps can be wired according...
Metal
$6,494 / item
Tundra Floor Lamp by Gabor Gobi
Located in Geneve, CH
Tundra Floor Lamp by Gabor Gobi Unique Piece. Dimensions: D 40 x W 50 x H 116 cm. Materials: Beech wood, white marble, and plywood. This one-of-a-kind floor lamp is crafted from a r...
Marble
$2,613 / item
Calee XS Floor Lamp by POOL
Located in Geneve, CH
Calee XS floor lamp by Pool Dimensions: D50 X H140 cm Materials: solid brass, Polycarbonate, textile cable (2m). Others finishes and dimensions are available. All our lamps can...
Brass
$3,345 / item
Calee XL Floor Lamp by Pool
Located in Geneve, CH
Calee XL floor lamp by Pool Dimensions: D70 X H170 cm Materials: Solid Brass, Polycarbonate, Textile cable (2m). Others finishes and dimensions are available. All our lamps can...
Brass
MCM Faux Bamboo Sculptural Floor Lamp
Located in San Diego, CA
MCM faux bamboo sculptural floor lamp, circa 1970s. The lamp is in very good vintage condition and measures 11"D x 65"H. Great sleek look! #3992
Brass
$25,558 / item
Silica 2 Floor Lamp by Dualismo
Located in Geneve, CH
Silica 2 Floor Lamp by Dualismo Dimensions: W 53 x D 53 x H 165 cm Materials: Polished Stainless Steel. About: Dualismo is an art and design studio creating work at the intersection...
Stainless Steel
$25,558 / item
Silica 3 Floor Lamp by Dualismo
Located in Geneve, CH
Silica 3 Floor Lamp by Dualismo Dimensions: W 53 x D 53 x H 165 cm Materials: Polished Stainless Steel. About: Dualismo is an art and design studio creating work at the intersection...
Stainless Steel
$25,558 / item
Silica 1 Floor Lamp by Dualismo
Located in Geneve, CH
Silica 1 Floor Lamp by Dualismo Dimensions: W 53 x D 53 x H 165 cm Materials: Polished Stainless Steel. About: Dualismo is an art and design studio creating work at the intersection...
Stainless Steel
$7,528 / item
Boomerang Floor Lamp by Arturo Verástegui
By Arturo Verástegui
Located in Geneve, CH
Boomerang floor lamp by Arturo Verástegui Dimensions: D 80 x W 50 x H 215 cm Materials: walnut wood, oak wood. Lamp made of walnut and natural white oak. Arturo Verástegui ha...
Oak, Walnut
$4,275 / item
Metal A23 Floor Lamp by Disderot
Located in Geneve, CH
Metal A23 Floor Lamp by Disderot Limited Edition. Designed by Alain Richard Dimensions: Ø 40 x H 150 cm. Materials: Lacquered metal. Delivered with authentication certificate. Made...
Metal
$4,275 / item
Metal A23 Floor Lamp by Disderot
Located in Geneve, CH
Metal A23 Floor Lamp by Disderot Limited Edition. Designed by Alain Richard Dimensions: Ø 40 x H 150 cm. Materials: Lacquered metal. Delivered with authentication certificate. Made...
Metal
$4,275 / item
Metal A23 Floor Lamp by Disderot
Located in Geneve, CH
Metal A23 Floor Lamp by Disderot Limited Edition. Designed by Alain Richard Dimensions: Ø 40 x H 150 cm. Materials: Lacquered metal. Delivered with authentication certificate. Made...
Metal
$4,275 / item
Metal A23 Floor Lamp by Disderot
Located in Geneve, CH
Metal A23 Floor Lamp by Disderot Limited Edition. Designed by Alain Richard Dimensions: Ø 40 x H 150 cm. Materials: Lacquered metal. Delivered with authentication certificate. Made...
Metal
$4,275 / item
Metal A23 Floor Lamp by Disderot
Located in Geneve, CH
Metal A23 Floor Lamp by Disderot Limited Edition. Designed by Alain Richard Dimensions: Ø 40 x H 150 cm. Materials: Lacquered metal. Delivered with authentication certificate. Made...
Metal
Grip floor lamp, Achille Castiglioni, Flos 1985
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Grip floor lamp, design by Achille Castiglioni Italia, 1985. Painted steel base from which an inclined rod develops, ending with a cardan joint that allows the light source to be ori...
Metal
$1,649 / item
Ghost Floor Lamp by Studio Kowalewski
Located in Geneve, CH
Ghost floor lamp by Studio Kowalewski Materials: metal, glass. Dimensions: D 24 x H 60 cm Andreas Kowalewski is a talented German designer. His background as a carpenter and ind...
Metal
Italiana Luce Floor Lamp Circa 1990s
By Italiana Luce
Located in Oakland, CA
1990s floor lamp by Italiana Luce of Italy. Cast iron base painted steel stem with a heavy frosted glass shade. This is an exceptionally well made lamp and a fine example of the desi...
Steel
$2,613 / item
Brick Floor Lamp by Maurizio Duranti
Located in Geneve, CH
Brick Floor Lamp by Maurizio Duranti Dimensions: D 25 x 35 x H 140 cm. Materials: Polyethylene and metal. Available in different sizes. Prices may vary. This product is suitable fo...
Metal, Other
$8,306 / item
Drape Floor Lamp by Studio Bazazo
Located in Geneve, CH
Drape Floor Lamp by Studio Bazazo Dimensions: D 61,5 x W 40 x H 170 cm. Materials: Steel, sand, and plaster mixture. All our lamps can be wired according to each country. If sold t...
Steel, Other
$1,742 / item
Black Adobe Floor Lamp by Wentz
By Guilherme Wentz
Located in Geneve, CH
Black Adobe Floor Lamp by Wentz Dimensions: D 32 x W 24 x H 180 cm Materials: Steel, Marble, Blown Glass.
Marble, Steel
$1,742 / item
White Adobe Floor Lamp by Wentz
By Guilherme Wentz
Located in Geneve, CH
White Adobe Floor Lamp by Wentz Dimensions: D 32 x W 24 x H 180 cm Materials: Steel, Marble, Blown Glass.
Marble, Steel
$1,742 / item
Sand Adobe Floor Lamp by Wentz
By Guilherme Wentz
Located in Geneve, CH
White Adobe Floor Lamp by Wentz Dimensions: D 32 x W 24 x H 180 cm Materials: Steel, Marble, Blown Glass.
Marble, Steel
Mid-Century Modern Design Decor Light Hand-Crafted Solid Wood Floor Lamp TRINITY
By Karson Wu, Flowlight Design
Located in Lawrenceville, GA
This is a Made to Order item! The carvings are crafted from solid wood with refined curved forms, entirely hand-carved and carefully finished to preserve the natural texture and gra...
Wood
$4,437 / item
Chrome J14 Floor Lamp by Disderot
Located in Geneve, CH
Chrome J14 Floor Lamp by Disderot Limited Edition. Designed by Joseph-André Motte. Dimensions: Ø 30 x H 165 cm. Materials: Chrome, glass and black marble. Delivered with authentica...
Marble, Chrome
$4,437 / item
Chrome J14 Floor Lamp by Disderot
Located in Geneve, CH
Chrome J14 Floor Lamp by Disderot Limited Edition. Designed by Joseph-André Motte. Dimensions: Ø 30 x H 165 cm. Materials: Chrome, glass and grey marble. Delivered with authenticat...
Marble, Chrome
$12,081 / item
Upsidedown Floor Lamp by Secondome Edizioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Upsidedown Floor Lamp by Secondome Edizioni Limited Edition Of 9 Pieces + 3 A.P. Designer: Lanzavecchia + WAI. Dimensions: Ø 40 x H 180 cm. Materials: Natural iron and handblown mir...
Iron
$4,832 / item
Oddysey Floor Lamp by Memoir Essence
Located in Geneve, CH
Oddysey Floor Lamp by Memoir Essence Dimensions: D 65 x W 65 x H 180 cm. Materials: Brushed brass and white marble. Odyssey is the new addition to Memoir’s lighting collection. Comb...
Marble, Brass
$13,034 / item
Nymph Floor Lamp by Laylo Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Nymph Floor Lamp by Laylo Studio Limited Edition Dimensions: D 50 x H 106.6 cm. Materials: Woven reed, blackened & brushed stainless steel. As related to insects, a nymph is sexuall...
Steel
$14,056 / item
Echo Floor Lamp by Atelier Demichelis
Located in Geneve, CH
Echo Floor Lamp by Atelier Demichelis Numbered and Signed Dimensions: D 38 x H 166 cm Materials: Patinated and Varnished Brass. Laura Demichelis Laura was born & brought up in Pro...
Brass
$6,935 / item
Heron Floor Lamp by CTO Lighting
By CTO Lighting
Located in Geneve, CH
Heron floor lamp by CTO Lighting Materials: satin brass with movable head and honed black marquina marble base. Also available in bronze with movable head and calacatta viola marbl...
Marble, Brass
$3,566 / item
Freno Floor Lamp by Caio Superchi
Located in Geneve, CH
Freno floor lamp by Caio Superchi Dimensions: D 40 x W 22 x H 160 cm Materials: Steel, Wood, Ceramic All our lamps can be wired according to each country. If sold to the USA it...
Steel
$2,718 / item
Benzina Floor Lamp by Caio Superchi
Located in Geneve, CH
Benzina floor lamp by Caio Superchi Dimensions: D 48 x W 16 x H 170 cm Materials: Wood, Metal Signed and numbered piece. All our lamps can be wired according to each country. ...
Metal
$5,669 / item
Digit Lamp Floor by Studio Pin
Located in Geneve, CH
Digit lamp floor by Studio Pin Dimensions: D 180 x W 37 x H 190 cm Materials: Solid oak. Weight: 46kg content: LED dimmer, E27 fitting Try hard, dig deep, they said. Can you...
Oak
$4,310 / item
Chrome A23 Floor Lamp by Disderot
Located in Geneve, CH
Chrome A23 Floor Lamp by Disderot Limited Edition. Designed by Alain Richard Dimensions: Ø 40 x H 150 cm. Materials: Lacquered metal and chrome. Delivered with authentication certi...
Metal, Chrome
$8,364 / item
Samurai Floor Lamp by WJ Luminaires
Located in Geneve, CH
Samurai Floor Lamp by WJ Luminaires Dimensions: Ø 60 x H 160 cm. Materials: Aluminum, travertine Romano and fabric. Available in different aluminum color options. Please contact u...
Travertine, Aluminum
$6,274 / item
Imperial Floor Lamp by WJ Luminaires
Located in Geneve, CH
Imperial Floor Lamp by WJ Luminaires Dimensions: Ø 50 x H 170 cm. Materials: Aluminum, travertine and fabric. Available in different aluminum color options. Please contact us. All...
Travertine, Aluminum
$1,893 / item
Quartz Floor Lamp I by Aver
Located in Geneve, CH
Quartz Floor Lamp I by Aver Dimensions: W 25 x D 27 x H 172 cm Materials: Natural rocks, high-quality cut crystals, jewelry chains, hand-blown glass, other. Also Available: Matte Bla...
Stone, Crystal, Other
$5,204 / item
Quartz Floor Lamp II by Aver
Located in Geneve, CH
Quartz Floor Lamp II by Aver Dimensions: W 27 x D 27 x H 172 cm Materials: Natural rocks, high-quality cut crystals, jewelry chains, hand blown glass, other. Also available: Matte bl...
Stone, Crystal, Other
$848 / item
SO5 Black Floor Lamp by +kouple
Located in Geneve, CH
SO5 Black Floor Lamp by +kouple Dimensions: Ø 20 x H 170 cm. Materials: Powder-coated steel and oiled solid ash with a natural tone. Available in different color options. Available...
Steel
$848 / item
SO5 Coral Floor Lamp by +kouple
Located in Geneve, CH
SO5 Coral Floor Lamp by +kouple Dimensions: Ø 20 x H 170 cm. Materials: Powder-coated steel and oiled solid ash with a natural tone. Available in different color options. Available...
Steel
$848 / item
SO5 Almond Floor Lamp by +kouple
Located in Geneve, CH
SO5 Almond Floor Lamp by +kouple Dimensions: Ø 20 x H 170 cm. Materials: Powder-coated steel and oiled solid ash with a natural tone. Available in different color options. Availabl...
Steel
$848 / item
SO5 Grey Floor Lamp by +kouple
Located in Geneve, CH
SO5 Grey Floor Lamp by +kouple Dimensions: Ø 20 x H 170 cm. Materials: Powder-coated steel and oiled solid ash with a natural tone. Available in different color options. Available ...
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.