$480Sale Price|20% Off
Post-Modern Brass Table Lamp with Brass Shade
Located in San Diego, CA
A very cool and unique Post-Modern brass table lamp with brass shade, circa 1980s. The lamp has
Brass
Post Modern Metal Floor Lamp with Handblown glass shade
Located in Pasadena, TX
This floor lamp has a huge handblown glass shade. The shade is 27' in diameter and 10" in height
Granite, Metal
$2,100Sale Price / set|25% Off
Pair Post Modern Design marble Floor Lamps with Pink Art Glass pink Shade
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pair Post Modern Design marble low Floor or table Lamps with Pink Art Glass pink Shade circa 1988
Marble
Post-Modern Metal Floor Lamp with Blue Bird-Shaped Shade by Bjart Rhenen
Located in Doornspijk, NL
Charming floor lamp made by Dutch design firm Bjart Rhenen. The shade made of aluminium has the
Steel
Vintage Plaster Cactus Lamp With Globe Lamp Shade MCM Postmodern Retro 70s 80s
By Michael Taylor, John Dickinson, Richard Etts, Modeline Lamp Co.
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Vintage Cactus Plaster Lamp. The lamp is made out of plaster and the lampshade is made out of
Plaster
Modern Industrial Table Lamp with Burnished Aluminum Shade and Brass Hardware
By Argosy Designs
Located in Treadwell, NY
finish, the shade of the disc lamp can either fade into its surroundings or catch light to emphasize its
Aluminum, Brass
Modern Industrial Table Lamp with Matte Black Aluminum Shade and Brass Hardware
By Argosy Designs, Erik Johnson
Located in Treadwell, NY
, the shade of the disc lamp can either fade into its surroundings or catch light to emphasize its
Brass, Steel, Nickel
Postmodern Pyramid Paper Shade Table Lamp
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Tripod postmodern paper shade table lamp with black enameled frame. The table lamp showcases a
Metal
$3,121 / item
Adam Table Lamp with Shade by Marioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Adam Table Lamp with Shade by Marioni Dimensions: W 40 x D 40 x H 95 cm. Materials: Matching
Fabric, Ceramic
$2,795 / item
Liz Table Lamp with Shade by Marioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Liz Table Lamp with Shade by Marioni Dimensions: W 46 x D 46 x H 86 cm. Materials: Matching shade
Fabric, Wood
$3,449 / item
Marvin Table Lamp with Shade by Marioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Marvin Table Lamp with Shade by Marioni Dimensions: W 45 x D 45 x H 100 cm. Materials: Matching
Ceramic, Fabric, Wood
$1,559 / item
Gravity Floor Lamp, Blackened Steel, White Shade
By Space Copenhagen, Gubi
Located in Berkeley, CA
The new Gravity collection designed by Space Copenhagen, consisting of a table lamp and a floor
Steel
$1,559 / item
Gravity Floor Lamp, Blackened Steel - Canvas Shade
By Space Copenhagen, Gubi
Located in Berkeley, CA
The new Gravity collection designed by Space Copenhagen, consisting of a table lamp and a floor
Steel
Franco Buzzi Ceriani Tri-Shade Metal Floor Lamp
By Franco Buzzi
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Very rare Franco Buzzi Ceriani three shade floor lamp, c.1970s, Italy. The floor lamp is
Steel
$9,494 / item
Simple Shade 03 Table Lamp by Naomi Paul
By Naomi Paul
Located in Geneve, CH
Simple shade 03 table lamp by Naomi Paul Dimensions: D 30 x W 43 x H 57 cm Materials: Metal frame
Metal
Vintage Postmodern Brushed Steel and Brass Columnar Lamps Metal Shade
Located in W Allenhurst, NJ
Striking post modern steel and brass columnar lamps. Dramatic presence with a metal shade topped
Brass, Steel
Vintage Red and Black Desk Lamp with Metal Shade
Located in Brooklyn, NY
An arresting 1980s adjustable desk lamp with round enameled black base and stem, red metal shade
Metal
Postmodern White Ceramic Table Lamp with Brass Base & Pleated Shade
Located in Freehold, NJ
shade, and vintage wiring. Dimensions in listing are for lamp without shade. With the shade this
Ceramic
$795Sale Price|20% Off
Large Extraordinary 1980s Metal Table Lamp and Opal Glass Shade
Located in München, DE
Great extraordinary table lamp from the 1980s or 1990s. Rare Minimalist design. The lamp neck
Metal
Postmodern Brushed Steel Female Leg Marilyn Monroe Floor Lamp w/ Shade 1990
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Hand machined Brushed Steel Female Leg Floor Lamp inspired by Marilyn Monroe. This unique piece was
Steel
$4,104Sale Price|20% Off
Pink 1980s Italian floor lamp by Targetti with yellow Murano glass shade
By Fontana Arte
Located in Oxford, GB
Wonderful and very rare Post-Modern 1980s lamp by Targetti. In superb condition with a spray
Metal
1980's Postmodern Italia Table Lamp by Vetri Chrome & Glass Shade
By Vetri
Located in San Diego, CA
Majestic unique and very rare postmodern lamp in polished chrome finish with glass shade a rare and
Chrome
Barovier & Toso Table Lamp, Milk Glass Shade, Black Base, Italy 1993
By Barovier&Toso
Located in Hellouw, NL
design. Design This table lamp features a half-round milk glass shade, characterized by a soft
Glass
210cm Minimalist "Three Rod" Chrome Floor Lamp with White Bowl Shade, 1980
Located in Mortsel, BE
Elevate your interior with this architectural triple stem floor lamp, an example of 1980s
Metal, Steel, Chrome
Tulipán Handcrafted Wood Floor Lamp with Linen Shade by Isabel Moncada
Located in Geneve, CH
Tulipán Handcrafted Wood Floor Lamp with Linen Shade by Isabel Moncada Dimensions: Ø 60 x H 160 cm
Linen, Fiberglass, Wood
20th Century Vintage Table Lamp, Milk Glass Shade and Metallic Rod
Located in Beirut, LB
lamp shade crafted from milk glass. The design is further enhanced with a sleek metallic rod and a
Metal
Malva Contemporary Parota Wood Floor Lamp with Linen Shade by Isabel Moncada
Located in Geneve, CH
Malva Contemporary Parota Wood Floor Lamp with Linen Shade by Isabel Moncada Dimensions: Ø 50 x H
Linen, Fiberglass, Wood
Malva Contemporary Parota Wood Floor Lamp with Linen Shade by Isabel Moncada
Located in Geneve, CH
Malva Contemporary Parota Wood Floor Lamp with Linen Shade by Isabel Moncada Dimensions: Ø 50 x H
Linen, Fiberglass, Wood
Mezquite Sculptural Pine Wood Floor Lamp with Linen Shade by Isabel Moncada
Located in Geneve, CH
Mezquite Sculptural Pine Wood Floor Lamp with Linen Shade by Isabel Moncada Dimensions: Ø 60 x H
Linen, Pine
Postmodern Table Lamp with Black Cone Shade and Brushed Aluminum Stem, 1980s
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
A striking example of postmodern design, this table lamp features a bold, geometric silhouette that
Aluminum, Steel
Ron Rezek Model 110 Gray & Black Desk Lamp with Red Perforated Shade
By Ron Rezek
Located in Bainbridge, NY
Post-Modern Table Lamp by Ron Rezek with perforated Shade, circa 1980. Featuring counterbalance
Steel, Metal
Mezquite Sculptural Pine Wood Table Lamp with Linen Shade by Isabel Moncada
Located in Geneve, CH
Mezquite Sculptural Pine Wood Table Lamp with Linen Shade by Isabel Moncada Dimensions: Ø35.5 x H
Linen, Pine
Small Elephant Leg Parota Wood Lamp with Fabric Shade by Isabel Moncada
Located in Geneve, CH
Small Elephant Leg Parota Wood Lamp with Fabric Shade by Isabel Moncada Dimensions: Ø 48.5 x H 74
Wood, Linen, Fiberglass, Polystyrene
Large Elephant Leg Parota Wood Floor Lamp with Fabric Shade by Isabel Moncada
Located in Geneve, CH
Large Elephant Leg Parota Wood Floor Lamp with Fabric Shade by Isabel Moncada Dimensions: Ø 55 x H
Linen, Fiberglass, Polystyrene, Wood
Medium Elephant Leg Parota Wood Lamp with Fabric Shade by Isabel Moncada
Located in Geneve, CH
Medium Elephant Leg Parota Wood Lamp with Fabric Shade by Isabel Moncada Dimensions: Ø 53.5 x H 91
Linen, Fiberglass, Polystyrene, Wood
$327Sale Price / set|31% Off
Postmodern Steel Cafe Table Lamp With Cone Shaped Glass Shade Pair, 10 Available
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Post Modern steel cafe table lamp with a glass cone-shaped, half-frosted,/half-clear shade. This
Steel
Metal Floor Lamp with Murano Glass Frosted Shade by Relco Milano, Italy, 1980s
By Relco Milano
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Italian Murano frosted glass and bronze finish metal floor lamp produced by Relco Milano, 1980s
Metal
Large Italian 1980s Ceramic Table Lamp Without a Shade from IL Punto La Bottega
By Il Punto la Bottega
Located in München, DE
Large 1980s ceramic table lamp without a shade from IL Punto La Bottega. Made in Italy. Beautiful
Metal, Chrome
Vintage 1990s Black Pendant Lamp with Glass Top Shade. Italy
Located in Catania, CT
Elegant pendant lamp from the 1990s featuring a distinctive modernist design. The lamp showcases a
Metal
$6,208 / item
Small Simple Shade 01 Pendant Lamp by Naomi Paul
By Naomi Paul
Located in Geneve, CH
Small simple shade 01 pendant lamp by Naomi Paul. Dimensions: D 50 x H 8 cm. Materials: metal
Metal
$24,472 / item
Large Simple Shade 03 Pendant Lamp by Naomi Paul
By Naomi Paul
Located in Geneve, CH
Large simple shade 03 pendant lamp by Naomi Paul Dimensions: D 80 x H 35 cm Materials: Metal
Metal
$7,135 / item
Small Simple Shade 03 Wall Lamp by Naomi Paul
By Naomi Paul
Located in Geneve, CH
Small Simple Shade 03 wall lamp by Naomi Paul Dimensions: D 30 x W 50 x H 27 cm Materials: Metal
Metal
Unavailable|$431
Post Modern desk lamp by Hala Zeist, 1970s
Located in MIJDRECHT, NL
Desk lamp with tubular shade by the dutch company Hala Zeist, 1970s. Post modern design with a
Metal, Chrome, Sheet Metal
Unavailable|$2,185 / item
Table Lamp in Aged Brass, Modern Art Deco Design Handmade. Shade included
By Jaime Tresserra
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary Art Deco design handmade and hand-finished table lamp. We combine skilled
Composition, Marble, Brass
Unavailable|$2,023 / item
FUTURA Table Lamp in Aged Brass, Modern Art Deco Design Handmade Shade included
By Jaime Tresserra
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary Art Deco design handmade and hand-finished table lamp. We combine skilled
Composition, Marble, Brass
Unavailable|$2,023 / item
FUTURA.Table Lamp in Aged Nickel, Modern Art Deco Design Handmad. Shade Included
By Jaime Tresserra
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary Art Deco design handmade and hand-finished table lamp. We combine skilled
Composition, Marble, Brass
Unavailable|$2,545 / item
INCA, Table Lamp in Aged Bronze, Modern Art Deco Design Handmade, Shade Included
By Jaime Tresserra
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary Art Deco design handmade and hand-finished table lamp. We combine skilled
Composition, Marble, Brass
Unavailable|$2,545 / item
INCA. Table Lamp in Aged Brass Modern Art Deco Design Handmade Shade Included
By Jaime Tresserra
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary Art Deco design handmade and hand-finished table lamp. We combine skilled
Composition, Marble, Brass
Unavailable|$2,398 / item
OPIO. Table Lamp in Aged Nickel, Modern Art Deco Design Handmade. Shade included
By Jaime Tresserra
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary Art Deco design handmade and hand-finished table lamp. We combine skilled
Composition, Marble, Brass
Contemporary Tower Floor Lamp with Terracotta Geometric Oak Base & Frosted shade
By Louis Jobst
Located in London, GB
The Tower floor lamp V2 is a One-off design by Louis Jobst. It has an asymmetric solid oak base
Glass, Acrylic, Oak
Unavailable|$2,545 / item
RA. Table Lamp in Aged Brass, Contemporary Art Deco Design Handmade. Shade inclu
By Jaime Tresserra
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary Art Deco design handmade and hand-finished table lamp. We combine skilled
Composition, Marble, Brass
Italian Post-Modern Floor Lamp With Glass Shade
Located in Astoria, NY
Italian Post-Modern period floor lamp in metal with glass shade. The piece takes a halogen bulb and
Metal
Hala Post Modern Cantilevered Floor Lamp with Half Dome Shade in White
By Hala Zeist
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Post Modern white enameled metal Hala cantilevered floor lamp with half moon shade. Adjustable
Metal
Post-modern Tall Travertine Column Table Lamp with Original Pleated Sisal Shade
By George Kovacs
Located in Chicago, IL
Large-scale Post-Modern table lamp in the style of George Kovacs in off-white / cream travertine in
Plaster
1980s Italian Table Lamp by VeArt with Murano Glass Shade in Post Modern Design
By VeArt
Located in München, DE
Very rare 1980s Italian table lamp by VeArt with a Murano glass shade. Great minimalistic Post
Metal
Post War Copper Hawaiian Hula Girl Table Lamp with Wicker Shade
Located in Van Nuys, CA
complimenting straw lamp shade. Just a table lamp. Measures 7.5"diameter x 18" tall. Lamp shade measures 17
Metal, Copper
Post Modern Steel and Brass Memphis Style Lamp
Located in New York, NY
Hand-hammered steel and brass post modern lamp with steel shade and rectangular step pedestal brass
Brass, 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 right table lamp, outwardly sculptural chandelier or understated wall pendant can work wonders for your home. While we’re indebted to thinkers like Thomas Edison for critically important advancements in lighting and electricity, we’re still finding new ways to customize illumination to fit our personal spaces all these years later. A wide range of antique and vintage lighting can be found on 1stDibs.
Today, lighting designers like the self-taught Bec Brittain have used the flexible structure of LEDs to craft glamorous solutions by working with what is typically considered a harsh lighting source. By integrating glass and mirrors, reflection can be used to soften the glow from LEDs and warmly welcome light into any space.
Although contemporary innovators continue to impress, some of the classics can’t be beat.
Just as gazing at the stars allows you to glimpse the universe’s past, vintage chandeliers like those designed by Gino Sarfatti and J. & L. Lobmeyr, for example, put on a similarly stunning show, each with a rich story to tell.
As dazzling as it is, the Arco lamp, on the other hand, prioritizes functionality — it’s wholly mobile, no drilling required. Designed in 1962 by architect-product designers Achille & Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, the piece takes the traditional form of a streetlamp and creates an elegant, arching floor fixture for at-home use.
There is no shortage of modernist lighting similarly prized by collectors and casual enthusiasts alike — there are Art Deco table lamps created in a universally appreciated style, the Tripod floor lamp by T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, Greta Magnusson Grossman's sleek and minimalist Grasshopper lamps and, of course, the wealth of mid-century experimental lighting that emerged from Italian artisans at Arredoluce, FLOS and many more are hallmarks in illumination innovation.
With decades of design evolution behind it, home lighting is no longer just practical. Crystalline shaping by designers like Gabriel Scott turns every lighting apparatus into a luxury accessory. A new installation doesn’t merely showcase a space; carefully chosen ceiling lights, table lamps and floor lamps can create a mood, spotlight a favorite piece or highlight your unique personality.
The sparkle that your space has been missing is waiting for you amid the growing collection of antique, vintage and contemporary lighting for sale on 1stDibs.