1980 Tender Romolo Lanciani Tronconi Italian Postmodern Design Glass Table Lamp
By Romolo Lanciani, Tronconi
Located in Brescia, IT
"Tender" Romolo Lanciani Tronconi Italy, 1980 White Frosted Glass Shade Clear Blue Metal and White Metal Base Perfect condiction Perfect working order
Metal
$689Sale Price / set|49% Off
Italian Postmodern Pair of White Black Glass and Metal Table Lamps, 1980s
Located in Badajoz, Badajoz
Postmodern, beautiful and cool Italian table lamps.
Metal
Postmodern Swiss Model Lucifer Table Lamp by Hannes Wettstein for Belux, 1990s
By Hannes Wettstein
Located in Hamburg, DE
Very rare table or wall lamp from the Swiss manufacturer Belux based on a design by Hannes Wettstein from the early 1990s.
Metal
Postmodern Italian Model Gli Table Lamp by Marco Zotta for Eleusi, 1980s
By Marco Zotta
Located in Hamburg, DE
Rare table lamp from the Italian manufacturer Eleusi based on a design by Marco Zotta from the 80s.
Metal
Postmodern Italian Model Gli Table Lamp by Marco Zotta for Eleusi, 1980s
By Marco Zotta
Located in Hamburg, DE
Rare table lamp from the Italian manufacturer Eleusi based on a design by Marco Zotta from the 80s.
Metal
$819Sale Price|20% Off
Postmodern "Bonsai" Wood Table Lamp by Josep Llusca for Blauet, Barcelona, 1990s
By Josep Llusca, Blauet
Located in Badajoz, Badajoz
Unique and pretty Postmodern Spanish "Gran Bonsai" Beech Wood Table Lamp by Blauet.
Metal
Rare Postmodern Helix Glass Table Lamp in the Manner of Karl Springer
By Karl Springer
Located in San Diego, CA
Beautiful rare and elegant glass staircase , helix table lamp in green glass with lucite base and chrome fittings in perfect working condition. no chips or cracks.
Chrome
Postmodern Italian Multi X Table Lamp by Yaacov Kaufmann for Lumina, 1980s
By Yaacov Kaufman, Lumina
Located in Hamburg, DE
Flexible desk lamp by Lumina, based on a design by Yaacov Kaufmann from the 1980s. The design stands out for its flexibility and technical aesthetics. The lamp arm is integrated int...
Metal
Postmodern Brass and Spheric Blown Glass Table Lamp by Mazzega, Italy
By Mazzega
Located in Bresso, Lombardy
Made in Italy, 1970s. It features a spheric blown glass lampshade and a brass base. It is a vintage piece, therefore it might show slight traces of use, but it can be considered as ...
Brass
Postmodern Vintage Black White Table Lamp Shogun Mario Botta Artemide 1986 Italy
By Artemide, Mario Botta
Located in Vienna, AT
Postmodern Memphis Style vintage table lamp by Mario Bott in black and white color from plastic and metal circa 1986, Italy.
Metal
Vintage Postmodern Italian Model Wing 509 Table Lamp by Bruno Gecchelin, 1970s
By Bruno Gecchelin
Located in Hamburg, DE
Rare table lamp from the Italian manufacturer Oluce based on a design by Bruno Gecchelin from the 70s.
Metal
Set of 2 Postmodern Italian Virgo Table Lamps by Ilalia Gibertini, 1990s
Located in Hamburg, DE
The surprise shows when you see the lamp from the side. The lamp body seems to have been simply halved.
Aluminum
Vintage Postmodern Black Blown Glass Clear Ribbon & Lucite Table Lamps - a Pair
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage Postmodern Black Blown Glass Clear Ribbon & Lucite Base Table Lamp with 3 - Way Socket - a Pair.
Glass, Lucite
Postmodern Space Age Chrome Mushroom Table Lamp in the Style of Gae Aulenti
By Gae Aulenti, Harvey Guzzini, Robert Sonneman
Located in W Allenhurst, NJ
1970s to 1980s Space Age / Postmodern chrome mushroom table lamp, heavily influenced by Italian modernist lighting design.
Chrome
Philips Z-Lamp FGG 200 Desk Lamp Postmodern Design
By Philips
Located in Bochum, NRW
Philips Z-Lamp FGG 200 Desk Lamp Foldable desk lamp from Philips, model FGG 200. Made in 1980s. It can be used as a desk lamp or mounted on a wall. Nowadays, the foldable Z form make...
Plastic
Vintage Postmodern Italian Igloo Table Lamp by Tommaso Cimini for Lumina, 1980s
By Tommaso Cimini
Located in Hamburg, DE
A design classic of the Italian manufacturer Lumina after a design by Tomasso Cimini from the early 80s. This design convinces with its technical design language. The overall design...
Metal
80s Rare Set of Vintage Postmodern Brutalist Hivo Van Teal Table Lamps
By Hivo Van Teal
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
80s Very Rare Set of Vintage Postmodern Memphis Geometric Distressed Glass & Gold Leaf Designer Hivo Van Teal Table Lamps - a Pair Extraordinary and Super Rare Pair of 80s Postmoder...
Metal, Gold Leaf
Italian Yellow and Black Postmodern Desk Lamp
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A beautiful 1980s Italian yellow and black Postmodern desk lamp. The lamp has a high-low switch and it takes a small halogen light bulb. Dimension: 25” diameter 3” wide 16.5” high.
Steel
Postmodern Pao T1 Table Lamp by Matteo Thun for Arteluce, Italy, 1990s
By Arteluce
Located in Hamburg, DE
The small T1 table light version from the Pao light series by Matteo Thun. Here in a rare version in chrome and silver. The Pao lights impress with their characteristic diffuser and...
Glass, Wood
Postmodern Italian Palio Table Lamp by Perry King S. Miranda for Arteluce 1980s
By Arteluce, Perry King and Santiago Miranda
Located in Hamburg, DE
A rare table lamp by the Italian manufacturer Arteluce.
Metal
$833Sale Price|20% Off
Late 20th Century pair of Italian postmodern loft table Lamps in Metal
Located in Milano, IT
Offered here is an interesting and unusual pair of table lamps, produced in Italy and dated to the first half of the 1980s. Crafted in bent sheet metal and painted white, with a corr...
Metal, Sheet Metal
Pair of Postmodern Brass Table Lamps by Montagna Grillo and Tonello, Italy
By A. Tonello and A. Montagna Grillo 1
Located in Bresso, Lombardy
Made in Italy. Tonello and Montagna Grillo designed these table lamps in 1970s - 1980s Their base is in brass and their newly-changed lampshades are in fabric, which has golden thre...
Brass
Postmodern Green Black Vintage Table Lamp Pausania by Ettore Sottsass Jr Italy
By Ettore Sottsass
Located in Vienna, AT
Modern green and black Ettore Sottsass jr. vintage table lamp 1982, model Pausania, executed by Artemide Italy. This table lamp, which is no longer in production, features chromed me...
Metal, Sheet Metal
"Perla" Bruno Gecchellin O-Luce 1980 Postmodern Italian Design Large Table Lamp
By Bruno Gecchelin, Oluce
Located in Brescia, IT
"Perla" Table Lamp Oluce , Bruno Gecchellin Italy Opaline glassshade and white metal black lacquered metal frame and Carrara marble base. Excellent condition Perfect working order.
Metal
Postmodern White Murano Glass Table Lamp with a Pink Marble Effect, Italy
Located in Bresso, Lombardy
Made in Italy, 1970s. It is made in Murano glass with a pink marble effect. This lamp might show slight traces of use since it's vintage, but it can be considered as in excellent or...
Murano Glass
Italian Postmodern Model Pao T1 Table Lamp Spare Glass Matteo Thun Arteluce, 90s
By Matteo Thun, Arteluce
Located in Hamburg, DE
Replacement glass for the small T1 table lamp version from the Pao lamp series by Matteo Thun for Arteluce. A very rare replacement glass for the Pao T1. Unfortunately, Pao table la...
Metal
Postmodern Space Age White Opaline Murano Glass and Brass Table Lamp, Italy
Located in Bresso, Lombardy
Made in Italy 1970s - 1980s. This table lamp is made in opaline Murano glass, brass and varnished metal. It is a vintage piece, therefore it might show slight traces of use as you ...
Metal, Brass
Set of 2 Postmodern Italian Model Gilda Table Lamps by Silvia Capponi, 1990s
By Silvia Capponi
Located in Hamburg, DE
Table lamps from the Italian manufacturer Artemide based on a design by Silvia Capponi from the early 90s.
Plastic
1980s BE-YANG Memphis Style Postmodern Table / Desk Lamp in Black and Teal
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Listed for sale is a 1980s vintage BE YANG desk and table lamp in teal and black. The lamp was acquired from a Washington, D.C. area estate among other period-correct modern and post...
Steel
Set of 2 Postmodern Ring A400 Table Lamps by Bruno Gecchelin, Italy, 1970s
By Bruno Gecchelin
Located in Hamburg, DE
Postmodern table lights from the Italian manufacturer Arteluce according to a draft by Bruno Gecchelin from the late 1970s.
Metal
Italian Postmodern Model Pao T2 Table Lamp by Matteo Thun for Arteluce, 1990s
By Arteluce
Located in Hamburg, DE
The large T2 table lamp version from the Pao lamp series by Matteo Thun.
Glass, Wood
Italian Postmodern Model Pao T2 Table Lamp by Matteo Thun for Arteluce, 1990s
By Matteo Thun
Located in Hamburg, DE
The large T2 table lamp version from the Pao lamp series by Matteo Thun.
Glass
Large and Uncommon Postmodern Orange Table Lamp by Carlo Nason, Murano, Italy
By Carlo Nason
Located in Bresso, Lombardy
Made in Italy, 1970s. The lamp features chrome-plated metallic elements, multi-layered encased and blown glass and a fabric lampshade, which is original from the 70s. The wiring is ...
Metal, Chrome
Italian Postmodern Model Pao T2 Table Lamp by Matteo Thun for Arteluce, 1990s
By Arteluce
Located in Hamburg, DE
The large T2 table lamp version from the Pao lamp series by Matteo Thun.
Glass, Wood
Postmodern Blue Murano Glass Table Lamp with or without Fabric Lampshade, Italy
Located in Bresso, Lombardy
Made in Italy, 1960s - 1970s. The lamp features a blue Murano glass base, that has bubbles and pleasant transparencies and veins due to the handcraft process. The wiring has been re...
Fabric, Murano Glass
Postmodern Black Pao T1 Table Lamp by Matteo Thun for Arteluce, Italy, 1990s
By Arteluce, Matteo Thun
Located in Hamburg, DE
The small T1 table lamp version from Matteo Thun's Pao lamp series. Here in a rare version with a high-gloss black lacquered shaft. The Pao lamps captivate with their characteristic...
Glass, Wood
Postmodern "Bonsai" Pair of Wood Table Lamps by Jordi Lluscà for Blauet, 1990s
By Blauet, Josep Llusca
Located in Badajoz, Badajoz
Unique and pretty Postmodern Spanish Pair of "Gran Bonsai" Beech Wood Table Lamps by Blauet.
Metal
Postmodern Italian Palio Table Lamp by Perry King S. Miranda for Arteluce 1980s
By Perry King and Santiago Miranda
Located in Hamburg, DE
Rare table lamp from the Italian manufacturer Arteluce.
Metal
Postmodern Italian Model Pao T1 Table Lamp by Matteo Thun for Arteluce, 1990s
By Arteluce
Located in Hamburg, DE
The small T1 table light version from the Pao light series by Matteo Thun.
Glass, Wood
$476Sale Price|20% Off
Postmodern Brutalist Pink and Green Faux Stone Three Way Table Lamps - a Pair
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Step back into the 1980s with the Postmodern Brutalist Pink and Green Faux Stone Three Way Table Lamps.
Stone
$842Sale Price / set|20% Off
Pair of Postmodern Nightstand Table Lamps made in Murano Glass by De Majo
By De Majo, Venini
Located in Roma, IT
Set of 2 postmodern bedside lamps designed by Luigi Ghisetti and produced between the 80s and 90s by the Murano company "De Majo".
Murano Glass
$887Sale Price / set|45% Off
Postmodern Pair of "Delta" Table Lamps by Mario Bertorelle for JM RDM, 1980s
By Mario Bertorelle
Located in Badajoz, Badajoz
Unique Italian pair of table lamps by Mario Bertorelle, from 1980s. These pieces were made during the 1980s in Massanzago by JM RMD. These table lamps are named Delta. Delta is the ...
Plastic
Italian Postmodern Model Pao T2 Table Lamp by Matteo Thun for Arteluce, 1990s
By Matteo Thun
Located in Hamburg, DE
The large T2 table lamp version from the Pao lamp series by Matteo Thun. Here in a rare version with a shaft made of light beech wood. The Pao lights impress with their characterist...
Glass, Wood
Postmodern Italian Model PAO T1 Table Lamp by Matteo Thun for Arteluce, 1990s
By Arteluce
Located in Hamburg, DE
The small T1 table light version from the Pao light series by Matteo Thun. The Pao shines impress with their characteristic diffuser made of matt glass. However, the material combin...
Glass, Wood
Postmodern Silver Pao T1 Table Lamps Matteo Thun Arteluce Italy, 1990s, Set of 2
By Arteluce, Matteo Thun
Located in Hamburg, DE
The small T1 table lamp from Matteo Thun’s Pao lighting series. Shown here in a rare silver version, sold as a set of two. The Pao lamps captivate with their characteristic diffuser...
Metal
Postmodern Italian Model Pao T1 Table Lamp by Matteo Thun for Arteluce, 1990s
By Arteluce
Located in Hamburg, DE
The small T1 table lamp version from the Pao lamp series by Matteo Thun. The Pao lights impress with their characteristic diffuser made of frosted glass. What is particularly specia...
Glass, Wood
Royal Haeger Style Postmodern Black Swirl Pottery Lamps
By Royal Haeger
Located in Franklin Park, IL
Royal Haeger Style Postmodern Black Swirl Pottery Lamps Each lamp measures: 15 wide x 6 deep x 31 inches high We take our photos in a controlled lighting studio to show as much det...
Metal
Set of 2 Space Age Postmodern German Table Lamps from Kotzolt Leuchten, 1970s
Located in Hamburg, DE
Two Space Age table lights from the German manufacturer Kotzolt. The luminaires impress with a technical design language that give the design a simple elegance. The contrast of blac...
Metal
Postmodern Blush Corrugated Cardboard Lamp by Flute, Chicago
By Flute Chicago
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Corrugated cardboard lamp in a pale blush. Made by Flute, in Chicago circa 1980s. More commonly seen as vases, this one has been made into a lamp. Structurally sound but very light...
Paper
Pair of Postmodern Spheric Glass Table Lamps by Lino Tagliapietra for La Murrina
By Lino Tagliapietra, La Murrina
Located in Bresso, Lombardy
Made in Italy, 1970s. Made in blown glass and chrome-plated metal. These table lamps are vintage pieces, therefore they might show slight traces of use, but they can be considered a...
Metal
Postmodern Heron Lamp by Isao Hosoe for Luxo
By Isao Hosoe
Located in Oslo, NO
Iconic table lamp designed by Isao Hosoe for the Norwegian lamp maker Luxo. Moulded plastic in a lacquered silver coating. The lamp is fully working and in good condition.
Plastic
$354Sale Price / set|35% 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 design was popular in New York City in areas like SoHo's Cast Iron district during th...
Steel
Tina Leung Postmodern Pendant Lamp, Translucent Plastic, 1990s Design
Located in Stockholm, SE
Pendant lamp designed by Tina Leung, 1990s. The sculptural shade is composed of translucent plastic tubing arranged in a dense, organic formation. The layered construction creates d...
Plastic
Postmodern Multidirectional Chrome Desk Lamp by Walter Von Nessen
By Nessen Studio, Walter Von Nessen
Located in San Diego, CA
Beautiful and rare multidirectional desk lamp by Nessen Studios in chrome finish and steel, shade shown that rotates side to side, and the classic Nessen arm retractable system. the ...
Chrome
Postmodern Counterweight Desk Lamp Albert Sonneman, USA, 1970s
By Robert Sonneman
Located in Den Haag, NL
Stunning large Post Modern Desk lamp. Counter Weight using a solid Steel ball to move in every direction. Nice architectural design. Switch on the shade. one large E27 bulb needed...
Metal
Postmodern pair of gilded metal and glass table lamps by Stilkronen. Italy 70s
By Stilkronen
Located in Catania, CT
Fair vintage condition with trace of age and use on the gilded metal. Glasses in perfect condition. They mount one socket for E14 bulb each. Full working with EU standard, adaptable ...
Metal
Postmodern Michael Taylor Style Plaster Twist Lamps, a Pair
By Michael Taylor
Located in W Allenhurst, NJ
Beautiful Plaster Twist lamps in the manner of Michael Taylor. Unique pink finish! Awesome postmodern design and styling! Shades and harps for staging purposes only.
Ceramic
Postmodern Heron Lamp by Isao Hosoe for Luxo, 1980s
By Isao Hosoe
Located in Delft, NL
Dimensions: 38cm – 54cm H, 50cm-80cm W, 13,5cm D Condition: Good some light scratches Period: 1980s Origin: Norway Material: Plastic.
Plastic
Postmodern Period Wall Light Sconce Spotlight or Desk Lamp
Located in New York, NY
A small Postmodern period wall light sconce, spot-light, or small desk lamp, with adjustable head and neck, circa late-20th century. Light can also hang on wall (see image #15.) Ligh...
Plastic
Set of 2 Mid-Century Italian Postmodern Space Age Model C 452 Table Lamps, 1960s
By Luci Italia
Located in Hamburg, DE
Rare Space Age table lights from the Italian manufacturer Luci from the 1970s.
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.
Antique table lamps became a category of their own once electricity moved light off the wall and onto furniture. The form split quickly: task-driven designs like the Anglepoise on one side, decorative ceramic and glass on the other.
Styles to Know
Base material shapes the light as much as the shade does: ceramic and glass diffuse a softer glow, while brass and metal read more directional. Layer the look with a mid-century modern floor lamp for ambient light, or set a pair on a mid-century modern nightstand for a bedroom.
How to Choose the Right Vintage Table Lamp
Buying individually rather than as a pair allows more flexibility when mixing eras across a room. For those shopping by name rather than by shape, the history of the Anglepoise lamp is worth a read. Each piece comes from a vetted 1stDibs seller, with era, designer and condition detailed, and the 1stDibs Promise stands behind every purchase.