$772 / item
Clear Butterfly Wall Sconce by Dainte
Located in Geneve, CH
Clear Butterfly Wall Sconce by Dainte Dimensions: D 13.5 x W 28.5 x H 28 cm. Materials: Glass and brass. The Butterfly wall sconce features an elegant silhouette modeled after the ...
Brass
$3,923 / item
Black Bloop Sconce by Nick Pourfard
Located in Geneve, CH
Black bloop sconce by Nick Pourfard. Dimensions: D 15.5 x W 25.5 x H 25.5 cm. Materials: metal, glass. Different finishes available. All our lamps can be wired according to ea...
Metal
$2,615 / item
Gaia Blue Sconce by Emilie Lemardeley
Located in Geneve, CH
Gaia blue sconce by Emilie Lemardeley Dimensions: D 38 x H 19 cm Materials: brass and hand blown glass, Led 12v / 5W Weight: 2 kg Available in different glass colors and finishes...
Brass
$2,615 / item
Gaia Green Sconce by Emilie Lemardeley
Located in Geneve, CH
Gaia green sconce by Emilie Lemardeley Dimensions: D38x H19 cm Materials: brass and hand blown glass, Led 12v / 5W Weight: 2 kg Available in different glass colors and finishes. ...
Brass
$2,615 / item
Gaia Purple Sconce by Emilie Lemardeley
Located in Geneve, CH
Gaia Purple Sconce by Emilie Lemardeley Dimensions: D38x H19 cm Materials: brass and hand blown glass, Led 12v / 5W Weight: 2 kg Available in different glass colors and finishes....
Brass
$2,615 / item
Gaia Red Sconce by Emilie Lemardeley
Located in Geneve, CH
Gaia red sconce by Emilie Lemardeley Dimensions: D38x H19 cm Materials: brass and hand blown glass, Led 12v / 5W Weight: 2 kg Available in different glass colors and finishes. ...
Brass
Postmodern Artemide Pantarei Wall Lamp/ Sconce
By Ernesto Gismondi, Artemide
Located in New York, NY
This very cool wall or ceiling light was designed in the early 1990s by Ernesto Gismondi for Artemide called Pantarei . Rounded glass shade with an aluminum frame. Can be used indoor...
Aluminum
$4,945 / item
Quartz Wall Sconce III by Aver
Located in Geneve, CH
Quartz wall sconce III by Aver Dimensions: W 21 x D 26 x H 75 cm Materials: Natural rocks, high-quality cut crystals, jewelry chains, hand-blown glass, other. Also Available: Matte B...
Stone, Crystal, Other
$1,700 / item
Quartz Wall Sconce I by Aver
Located in Geneve, CH
Quartz wall sconce I by Aver Dimensions: W 4 x D 17 x H 35 cm Materials: Natural rocks, high-quality cut crystals, jewelry chains, hand-blown glass, other. Also Available: Matte Blac...
Stone, Crystal, Other
$1,677 / item
Quartz Wall Sconce II by Aver
Located in Geneve, CH
Quartz wall sconce II by Aver Dimensions: W 14 x D 16 x H 55 cm Materials: Natural rocks, high-quality cut crystals, jewelry chains, hand-blown glass, other. Also Available: Matte Bl...
Crystal, Stone, Other
$5,884 / item
Ripple Sconce by Katrien Van Der Schueren
Located in Geneve, CH
Ripple Sconce by Katrien Van Der Schueren Dimensions: W 35.56 x D 7.62 x H 50.8 cm Materials: Sculpted in concrete and plaster with LEDs Based in, produced and shipped from the US. ...
Concrete, Other
$2,722 / item
Small Sconce Antony by Serge Mouille
Located in Geneve, CH
Small sconce Antony by Serge Mouille Dimensions: D35 x H41 cm Materials: Brass, steel, aluminium One of a Kind. Numbered. Also available in different colour. All our lamps can...
Aluminum, Brass, Steel
Midcentury Gold Metal Wall Sconce by Estiluz, Barcelona, 1980s
By Leonardo Marelli, Estiluz, Estiluz Lighting
Located in Badajoz, Badajoz
Cool Postmodern Gold Wall Sconce by Leonardo Marelli for Estiluz. Model: A-1180 Oro. This fixture was designed and manufactured in Barcelona (Spain) by Estiluz during 1980s. This Wal...
Metal
Large Guillerme et Chambron Double Wall Light Sconce
Located in Trensacq, FR
Made from solid oak, this furniture perfectly represents the robust and subtly rustic branch that grew out of the post-war Modern Movement. Creative and original, the Votre Maison st...
Metal, Brass
Postmodern Gold Metal Wall Sconce by Estiluz, Barcelona, 1980s
By Estiluz, Estiluz Lighting, Leonardo Marelli
Located in Badajoz, Badajoz
Cool Postmodern Gold Wall Sconce by Leonardo Marelli for Estiluz. Model A-1149. This fixture was designed and manufactured in Barcelona (Spain) by Estiluz during 1980s. “Estiluz” or...
Metal
$1,569 / item
Mooda Maple Sconce 6 by INDO-
Located in Geneve, CH
Mooda Maple sconce 6 by INDO- Dimensions: Ø 30.5 x 12.7 cm Materials: Bleached maple, Mugla White Stone All our lamps can be wired according to each country. If sold to the USA it w...
Mirror, Maple
$8,892 / item
Molten Sconce in White Brass by Farrah Sit
By Farrah Sit
Located in Geneve, CH
Molten Sconce in White Brass by Farrah Sit. Dimensions: W 28 x D 10.2 x H 28 cm. Materials: White Brass. Other materials and finishes are available upon request. As price varies dep...
Brass
Postmodern Gold Metal Wall Sconce by Estiluz, Barcelona, 1980s
By Estiluz Lighting, Estiluz, Leonardo Marelli
Located in Badajoz, Badajoz
Cool Postmodern Gold "Mate" Wall Sconce by Leonardo Marelli for Estiluz. Model: A-9000 Gold. This fixture was designed and manufactured in Barcelona (Spain) by Estiluz during 1980s. ...
Metal
$568Sale Price / set|60% Off
Postmodern Italian Murano Glass Wall Sconces, 1980s
Located in Badajoz, Badajoz
Postmodern and beautiful set of two Murano glass Wall Sconces. These fixtures are made in Italy. Each Wall Sconce is equipped with one light halongen bulb. A professional electricia...
Metal
$6,277 / item
Cono Sconce in Black Marble by Farrah Sit
By Farrah Sit
Located in Geneve, CH
Cono Sconce in Black Marble by Farrah Sit. Dimensions: W 16.5 x D 16.5 x H 16.5 cm. Materials: Stone, High Gloss Lacquer. Other materials and finishes are available upon request. As...
Stone
$2,187 / item
Femke Wall Sconce by Daniel Schneiger
Located in Geneve, CH
Femke wall sconce by Daniel Schneiger Dimensions: D 31 x W 36 x H 15 cm Materials: Wood and resin Custom finishes available. All our lamps can be wired according to each countr...
Glass, Resin, Wood
$10,069 / item
Gong Sculptural Wall Sconce by MATLIGHT Milano
Located in Geneve, CH
Gong Sculptural Wall Sconce by MATLIGHT Milano Designed by LC Atelier. Dimensions: D 10 x W 68 x H 68 cm. Materials: Alabaster and bronze. Handmade In Italy. All our lamps can be wi...
Alabaster, Bronze
$2,187 / item
Jurgen Wall Sconce by Daniel Schneiger
Located in Geneve, CH
Jurgen wall sconce by Daniel Schneiger Dimensions: D 36 x W 41 x H 15 cm Materials: Wood, slag glass and resin Custom finishes available, Custom slag glass colors available. Al...
Glass, Resin, Wood
$2,187 / item
Dag Wall Sconce by Daniel Schneiger
Located in Geneve, CH
Dag Wall Sconce by Daniel Schneiger. Dimensions: D 36 x W 43 x H 15 cm. Materials: wood, slag glass and resin. Custom slag glass colors available,custom finishes available. All...
Glass, Resin, Wood
$6,277 / item
Cono Sconce in Silvered Bronze by Farrah Sit
By Farrah Sit
Located in Geneve, CH
Cono Sconce in Silvered Bronze by Farrah Sit. Dimensions: W 16.5 x D 16.5 x H 16.5 cm. Materials: Silvered Bronze. Other materials and finishes are available upon request. As price ...
Metal
$1,593 / item
Marquise Sass Wall Sconce by MM Lampadari
Located in Geneve, CH
Marquise Sass Wall Sconce by MM Lampadari Dimensions: D 42 x W 46 x H 11 cm. Materials: Metal. All our lamps can be wired according to each country. If sold to the USA it will be w...
Metal
$5,040 / item
Natural Bronze Torpedo Sconce by A. Jacob Marks
Located in Geneve, CH
Natural Bronze Torpedo Sconce by A. Jacob Marks Dimensions: W 5 x D 5 x H 49 cm. Materials: natural bronze, gunmetal steel. T10 Also available in different materials. Torpedo is a...
Bronze
$5,266 / item
Glow Sconce by Katrien Van Der Schueren
Located in Geneve, CH
Glow Sconce by Katrien Van Der Schueren Dimensions: D 12 x W 38 x H 45 cm. Materials: Sculpted in paper, plaster, bioresin, with brass bracket and lighting components with LED Based...
Brass, Other
LV Wall Sconce in Cast Aluminum by Pietro Franceschini
By Pietro Franceschini
Located in Geneve, CH
LV Wall Sconce in Cast Aluminum by Pietro Franceschini. Dimensions: W 13 x D 13 x H 60 cm. Materials: Cast aluminium. This listing features the LV Wall Sconce in its cast aluminum v...
Aluminum
$3,637 / item
Classico Travertine Pill Sconce by Henry Wilson
By Henry Wilson
Located in Geneve, CH
Classico Travertine Pill Sconce by Henry Wilson Dimensions: W 10 x D 10 x H 40 cm Materials: Travertine Sandwiched between two components, the light source is projected onto the co...
Travertine
Swedish Designer, Sconces, Brass, Rattan, Sweden, 1960s
Located in High Point, NC
A pair of brass and rattan sconces/ wall lights designed and produced in Sweden, c. 1960s. Sold with Lampshades. Dimensions stated are of Sconces with Lampshades. Dimensions o...
Brass
$1,022 / item
MMM Leaf Wall Sconce by MM Lampadari
Located in Geneve, CH
MMM Leaf Wall Sconce by MM Lampadari Dimensions: D 26 x W 12 x H 14 cm. Materials: Glass and metal. Different metal finishes are available. All our lamps can be wired according to e...
Metal
$1,022 / item
MMM Leaf Wall Sconce by MM Lampadari
Located in Geneve, CH
MMM Leaf Wall Sconce by MM Lampadari Dimensions: D 26 x W 12 x H 14 cm. Materials: Glass and metal. Different metal finishes are available. All our lamps can be wired according to e...
Metal
$1,188 / item
Drop Brass Wall Sconce by Lamp Shaper
Located in Geneve, CH
Drop Brass Wall Sconce by Lamp Shaper Dimensions: D 23 x W 20.5 x H 43 cm. Materials: Brass. Different finishes available: raw brass, aged brass, burnt brass and brushed brass Pleas...
Brass
Monster Humpty with Hand-Blown Glass Bubble and Textured Brass
By Rural Modern Glass Studio
Located in Mumbai, India, Maharashtra
Monster Collectible : Monster Brainy Unleashing the 'Monster Brainy' -- where bold aesthetics meet functional genius. This concept dares to blend creativity with curiosity, crafting...
Brass
Monster Squinty with Hand-blown Glass Eyes and Textured Brass
By Rural Modern Glass Studio
Located in Mumbai, India, Maharashtra
Monster Collectible : Monster Squinty Meet the Monster Squinty Lamp, a quirky blend of art and light that adds a playful twist to your space! With its creature-like body and squinty...
Brass
Postmodern Dimmable Black Metal Wall Sconce by Estiluz, Barcelona, 1980s
By Leonardo Marelli, Estiluz, Estiluz Lighting
Located in Badajoz, Badajoz
Pretty and unique Dimmable Postmodern Black Wall Sconce by Leonardo Marelli for Estiluz. Model: A-0973 R Negro. This fixture was designed and manufactured in Barcelona (Spain) by Est...
Metal
$392 / item
Dream/Reality Wall Sconce by Six Dots Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Dream/Reality Wall Sconce by Six Dots Design Unique Piece. Dimensions: D 9 x W 18 x H 21 cm Materials: Textured aluminum. All our lamps can be wired according to each country. If so...
Aluminum
$1,569 / item
Giant White Babka Sconce by Di Fretto
Located in Geneve, CH
Giant White Babka Sconce by Di Fretto Dimensions: W 23 x D 18 x H 35 cm Materials: White Faience (not glazed) Also Available: Terracotta (not glazed) Aurélie Fretti, exploration an...
Faience
$1,176 / item
Pilolo Brass Wall Sconce by Simone & Marcel
Located in Geneve, CH
Pilolo Brass Wall Sconce by Simone & Marcel Dimensions: D 11 x W 22 x H 42 cm. Materials: Brass and alabaster. Available in different brass and alabaster options and finishes. Custo...
Alabaster, Brass
$1,022 / item
Peony L Wall Sconce by Yalanzhi Objects
Located in Geneve, CH
Peony L Wall Sconce by Yalanzhi Objects Dimensions: D 55 x W 55 x H 20 cm. Materials: Cellulose. Cellulose is a recycled material that was once forest. A high-quality, durable fin...
Other
$820 / item
Peony M Wall Sconce by Yalanzhi Objects
Located in Geneve, CH
Peony M Wall Sconce by Yalanzhi Objects Dimensions: D 45 x W 45 x H 16 cm. Materials: Cellulose. Cellulose is a recycled material that was once forest. A high-quality, durable fin...
Other
$820 / item
Peony M Wall Sconce by Yalanzhi Objects
Located in Geneve, CH
Peony M Wall Sconce by Yalanzhi Objects Dimensions: D 45 x W 45 x H 16 cm. Materials: Cellulose. Cellulose is a recycled material that was once forest. A high-quality, durable fin...
Other
$701 / item
Peony S Wall Sconce by Yalanzhi Objects
Located in Geneve, CH
Peony S Wall Sconce by Yalanzhi Objects Dimensions: D 35 x W 35 x H 13 cm. Materials: Cellulose. Cellulose is a recycled material that was once forest. A high-quality, durable fin...
Other
$939 / item
Luno Brass Wall Sconce by Simone & Marcel
Located in Geneve, CH
Luno Brass Wall Sconce by Simone & Marcel Dimensions: D 13 x W 27 x H 27 cm. Materials: Brass and alabaster. Available in different brass and alabaster options and finishes. Custom ...
Alabaster, Brass
$3,530 / item
Giant Wood Babka Sconce by Di Fretto
Located in Geneve, CH
Giant Wood Babka Sconce by Di Fretto Dimensions: W 25 x D 16 x H 44 cm Materials: Oak The Babka wall light is made to order by hand in white poplar. The veins and colors depend on e...
Oak
Terracotta Brut Body Sconces by Di Fretto
Located in Geneve, CH
Terracotta Brut Body Sconces by Di Fretto Dimensions: W 26 x D 10 x H 27 cm Materials: White and Terracotta Faiences (not glazed) The look of the terracotta and white version is du...
Faience
$2,746 / item
Armstrong 4 R Wall Sconce by Schwung
Located in Geneve, CH
Armstrong 4 R wall sconce by Schwung Dimensions: W 35 x D 33 x H 92 cm Materials: Brass, opal glass Weight: 6 kg Finishes available: Black gunmetal, polished nickel, brass Oth...
Brass
$665 / item
Duono Cotton Wall Sconce by Simone & Marcel
Located in Geneve, CH
Duono Cotton Wall Sconce by Simone & Marcel Dimensions: D 12 x W 24 x H 38 cm. Materials: Cotton. Custom options available on request. Please contact us. All our lamps can be wire...
Cotton
$701 / item
Okla Cotton Wall Sconce by Simone & Marcel
Located in Geneve, CH
Okla Cotton Wall Sconce by Simone & Marcel Dimensions: D 12 x W 24 x H 38 cm. Materials: Cotton. Custom options available on request. Please contact us. All our lamps can be wired...
Cotton
$463 / item
Small White Babka Sconce by Di Fretto
Located in Geneve, CH
Small White Babka Sconce by Di Fretto Dimensions: W 15 x D 10 x H 28 cm Materials: White Faience (not glazed) Also Available: Terracotta (not glazed) The Babka wall lamp is a twist ...
Faience
$463 / item
Small Terracotta Babka Sconce by Di Fretto
Located in Geneve, CH
Small Terracotta Babka Sconce by Di Fretto Dimensions: W 15 x D 10 x H 28 cm Materials: Terracotta Faience (not glazed) Also Available: White (not glazed) The Babka wall light is a...
Faience
$856 / set
White Brut Body Sconces by Di Fretto
Located in Geneve, CH
White Brut Body Sconces by Di Fretto Dimensions: W 26 x D 10 x H 27 cm Materials: White Faience The Body appliques are the 2 sides of the sculpture of a woman's body. An antique sta...
Faience
$701 / item
Eklipso Brass Wall Sconce by Simone & Marcel
Located in Geneve, CH
Eklipso Brass Wall Sconce by Simone & Marcel Dimensions: D 19,5 x W 14 x H 14 cm. Materials: Brass and glass. Available in different marble, brass, steel and alabaster options and f...
Brass
$903 / item
Marquise Buccia Wall Sconce by MM Lampadari
Located in Geneve, CH
Marquise Buccia Wall Sconce by MM Lampadari Dimensions: D 8 x W 20 x H 20 cm. Materials: Metal and gold leaf. Different finishes are available. All our lamps can be wired according ...
Metal, Gold Leaf
$986 / set
White Glazed Body Sconces by Di Fretto
Located in Geneve, CH
White Glazed Body Sconces by Di Fretto Dimensions: W 26 x D 10 x H 27 cm Materials: White Faience Glazed The Body appliques are the 2 sides of the sculpture of a woman's body. An an...
Faience
$998 / item
Small Sea Wall Sconce by Lamp Shaper
Located in Geneve, CH
Small ea Wall Sconce by Lamp Shaper Dimensions: D 13 x W 20.5 x H 20.5 cm. Materials: Brass and glass. Different finishes available: raw brass, aged brass, burnt brass and brushed b...
Brass
$5,088 / item
Natural Stone Wall Sconce II by Aver
Located in Geneve, CH
Natural stone wall sconce II by Aver Dimensions: W 18 x D 10 x H 86 cm Materials: Natural rocks, high-quality cut crystals, jewelry chains, hand blown glass, other. Also Available: M...
Stone, Crystal
$4,244 / item
Natural Stone Wall Sconce I by Aver
Located in Geneve, CH
Natural stone wall sconce I by Aver Dimensions: W 18 x D 10 x H 65 cm Materials: Natural rocks, high-quality cut crystals, jewelry chains, hand-blown glass, other. Also Available: Ma...
Stone, Crystal
Midcentury Large Gold Metal Wall Sconce by Estiluz, Barcelona, 1980s
By Leonardo Marelli, Estiluz, Estiluz Lighting
Located in Badajoz, Badajoz
Large and beauty Postmodern Gold Wall Sconce by Leonardo Marelli for Estiluz. Model: A-1186 Oro. This fixture was designed and manufactured in Barcelona (Spain) by Estiluz during 198...
Metal
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.
From the kitchen to the bedroom and everywhere in between, there is one major part of home decor that you definitely want to master: lighting. Carefully selected vintage sconces and wall lights can do wonders in establishing mood and highlighting your distinctive personality.
We’re a long way from the candelabra-inspired chandeliers of the medieval era. Lighting is no longer merely practical, and lighting designers have been creating and reinventing lighting solutions for eons. Because of the advancements crafted by these venturesome makers, we now have the opportunity to bring unique, customizable lighting solutions into our homes.
It’s never been easier to create dramatic bedrooms, cozy kitchen areas and cheerful bars than it is today. Think of an elegant wall sconce as functional and as a work of art, adding both light and style to your hallways, whimsical kids’ rooms and elsewhere.
When choosing a lighting solution, first determine what your needs are: Will you opt for a moody or a bright feel? The room that will serve as your home office will need adequate lighting — think “the brighter, the better” for this particular setting.
For the bedroom, bedside wall lamps with warm-temperature bulbs instead of bedside table lamps could be the way to go to induce a sense of calm or intimacy. Try to match the style of the wall light or sconce that you’re installing to the overall design scheme of your room. It’s never “just a light.” You should approach the lighting of a room with a mindset that is one part practical and one part aesthetics-driven.
Let 1stDibs help you set the mood with the right antique and vintage wall lights and sconces for your home. Our collection includes every kind of fixture, from sculptural works by Austrian craftsman J.T. Kalmar to chic industrial-style wall sconces, from adjustable painted aluminum wall lamps designed by Artemide to a wide variety of minimalist mid-century modern masterpieces.