Gaetano Pesce Moonshine wall sconce 1999
By Gaetano Pesce
Located in Naples, FL
Rare wall sconce by Gaetano Pesce Studio, New York. This example was originally hardwired but has been rewired with a plug and switch for more functionality. A functional sculpture t...
Steel
$921 / item
Solitário Wall Sconce by WJ Luminaires
Located in Geneve, CH
Solitário Wall Sconce by WJ Luminaires Dimensions: D 3 x W 7 x H 7 cm. Materials: Aluminum and crystal. Available in different aluminum color options. Please contact us. All our l...
Crystal, Aluminum
$2,496 / item
Vela Wall Sconce by WJ Luminaires
Located in Geneve, CH
Vela Wall Sconce by WJ Luminaires Dimensions: Ø 9 x H 19 cm. Materials: Aluminum and crystal. Available in different aluminum and cristal color options. Please contact us. All our...
Crystal, Aluminum
$921 / item
Solitário Wall Sconce by WJ Luminaires
Located in Geneve, CH
Solitário Wall Sconce by WJ Luminaires Dimensions: D 3 x W 7 x H 7 cm. Materials: Aluminum and crystal. Available in different aluminum color options. Please contact us. All our l...
Crystal, Aluminum
$2,694 / item
Umbra Wall Sconce by WJ Luminaires
Located in Geneve, CH
Umbra Wall Sconce by WJ Luminaires Dimensions: Ø 40 x H 40 cm. Materials: Aluminum and artisanal paint. Available in different color options. Please contact us. All our lamps can ...
Aluminum
$2,497 / item
Vela Wall Sconce by WJ Luminaires
Located in Geneve, CH
Vela Wall Sconce by WJ Luminaires Dimensions: Ø 9 x H 19 cm. Materials: Aluminum and crystal. Available in different aluminum and cristal color options. Please contact us. All our...
Crystal, Aluminum
$3,149 / item
Grão Wall Sconce by WJ Luminaires
Located in Geneve, CH
Grão Wall Sconce by WJ Luminaires Dimensions: D 12 x W 25 x H 25 cm. Materials: Aluminum and crystal. Available in different aluminum color options. Please contact us. All our lam...
Crystal, Aluminum
$4,084 / item
Enigma Wall Sconce by WJ Luminaires
Located in Geneve, CH
Enigma Wall Sconce by WJ Luminaires Dimensions: D 7 x W 28 x H 28 cm. Materials: Aluminum and crystal. Available in different aluminum color options. Please contact us. All our la...
Crystal, Aluminum
$3,149 / item
Grão Wall Sconce by WJ Luminaires
Located in Geneve, CH
Grão Wall Sconce by WJ Luminaires Dimensions: D 12 x W 25 x H 25 cm. Materials: Aluminum and crystal. Available in different aluminum color options. Please contact us. All our lam...
Crystal, Aluminum
$991 / item
Pink Charme Sconce Lamp, Sander Bottinga
By Sander Bottinga
Located in Geneve, CH
Pink charmed sconce lamp, Sander Bottinga Dimensions: 50 x W 38 x D 27 cm Handmade in brass, leather, wood and dip dyed colored Fringes in viscose. The movable arms makes it pos...
Brass
$1,166 / item
Natural Stone Wall Sconce by Aver
Located in Geneve, CH
Natural stone wall sconce by Aver Dimensions: W 12 x D 15 x H 58 cm Materials: Natural rocks, high-quality cut crystals, jewelry chains, hand-blown glass, other. Also Available: Matt...
Stone, Crystal
$396 / item
Macrame Wall Sconce by Saadia Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Macrame Wall Sconce by Saadia Design Dimensions: D 13 x W 29 x H 29cm. Materials: Ceramic, metal, and opaline glass. All our lamps can be wired according to each country. If sold to...
Metal
$4,444 / item
Flow Sconce by Katrien Van Der Schueren
Located in Geneve, CH
Flow Sconce by Katrien Van Der Schueren Dimensions: W 40.64 x D 22.86 x H 76.2 cm Materials: Plaster with LED Based in, produced and shipped from the US. All our lamps can be wired...
Other
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
$5,774 / 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
$758 / item
Grey Butterfly Wall Sconce by Dainte
Located in Geneve, CH
Grey 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 w...
Brass
$758 / item
Green Butterfly Wall Sconce by Dainte
Located in Geneve, CH
Green 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
$758 / 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
$3,849 / 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
$2,566 / 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
$2,566 / 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
$2,566 / 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
$2,566 / 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
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
$8,725 / 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
$4,852 / 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
$1,528 / 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
$1,528 / 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...
Stone, Crystal, Other
$6,159 / 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
$2,671 / 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
$6,159 / 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
$4,946 / 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
$1,539 / 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
$557Sale 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
$5,167 / 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
$9,880 / 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
$2,053 / 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
$2,053 / 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
$2,053 / 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...
Resin, Wood, Glass
$1,563 / 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
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
$384 / 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
$3,569 / 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
$1,003 / 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
$1,003 / 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
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
Vintage brown and white wall lamp sconce , 1970s
Located in Delft, NL
Vintage brown and white wall lamp sconce , 1970s
Glass
$1,167 / 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
Gravity Sconce in White Cast Bronze by William Guillon
By William Guillon
Located in Geneve, CH
Gravity Sconce in White Cast Bronze by William Guillon Hand Sculpted, Dated and Signed Dimensions: D 14 x W 18 x H 45 cm (custom dimensions upon request) Materials: White cast bronze...
Bronze
$1,539 / 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
Serpentine Sconce in Saint Raphael Limestone by Farrah Sit
By Farrah Sit
Located in Geneve, CH
Serpentine Sconce in Saint Raphael Limestone by Farrah Sit. Dimensions: W 10.2 x D 10.2 x H 53.3 cm. Materials: Saint Raphael Limestone. Other materials and finishes are available u...
Limestone
$1,003 / 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
$804 / 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
$804 / 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
$688 / 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
$1,155 / 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
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.