Vintage Office Desk Lamp
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Vintage Office Desk Lamp
Metal
1970s Swiss Mid-Century Modern Vintage Office Desk Lamp
Metal, Chrome
1970s Czech Industrial Vintage Office Desk Lamp
Chrome, Iron
20th Century Bauhaus Vintage Office Desk Lamp
Glass
Mid-20th Century European Mid-Century Modern Vintage Office Desk Lamp
Metal
20th Century Vintage Office Desk Lamp
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Office Desk Lamp
Brass, Aluminum, Metal
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Office Desk Lamp
Metal, Pewter
1930s Austrian Art Deco Vintage Office Desk Lamp
Metal, Steel, Stainless Steel, Nickel
Mid-20th Century German Bauhaus Vintage Office Desk Lamp
Metal
1960s American Vintage Office Desk Lamp
Brass, Aluminum
20th Century Vintage Office Desk Lamp
Metal
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Office Desk Lamp
Metal
1960s Swiss Minimalist Vintage Office Desk Lamp
Metal, Aluminum
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Office Desk Lamp
Brass, Steel
20th Century Vintage Office Desk Lamp
Metal
20th Century American Post-Modern Vintage Office Desk Lamp
Aluminum
1930s American Art Deco Vintage Office Desk Lamp
Brass
Late 20th Century Unknown Regency Vintage Office Desk Lamp
Brass
1940s American Art Deco Vintage Office Desk Lamp
Metal, Brass, Copper
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Office Desk Lamp
Metal
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Office Desk Lamp
Brass
20th Century American Space Age Vintage Office Desk Lamp
Brass, Chrome
1970s European Mid-Century Modern Vintage Office Desk Lamp
Metal, Chrome
Mid-20th Century Art Deco Vintage Office Desk Lamp
Brass, Bronze
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Office Desk Lamp
Brass, Aluminum
Mid-20th Century English Mid-Century Modern Vintage Office Desk Lamp
Aluminum
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Office Desk Lamp
Brass
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Office Desk Lamp
Aluminum
1930s Czech Bauhaus Vintage Office Desk Lamp
Metal, Chrome
1960s Vintage Office Desk Lamp
Brass
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Office Desk Lamp
Steel
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Office Desk Lamp
Aluminum, Brass
1960s Italian Modern Vintage Office Desk Lamp
Steel, Chrome
1950s French Vintage Office Desk Lamp
Bronze
1970s Mexican Mid-Century Modern Vintage Office Desk Lamp
Metal
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Office Desk Lamp
Metal, Chrome
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Office Desk Lamp
Metal
1980s European Post-Modern Vintage Office Desk Lamp
Metal
20th Century Italian Vintage Office Desk Lamp
Chrome, Metal
1980s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Office Desk Lamp
Steel
1970s Slovenian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Office Desk Lamp
Metal, Aluminum
1970s Slovenian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Office Desk Lamp
Metal, Aluminum
1980s Slovenian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Office Desk Lamp
Metal, Aluminum
1960s Spanish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Office Desk Lamp
Chrome, Cut Steel
1960s Vintage Office Desk Lamp
Metal
1970s European Mid-Century Modern Vintage Office Desk Lamp
Metal
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Office Desk Lamp
Metal
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Vintage Office Desk Lamp
Brass
20th Century American Vintage Office Desk Lamp
Metal
20th Century American Vintage Office Desk Lamp
Metal
Mid-20th Century English Vintage Office Desk Lamp
Brass
1950s Swedish Vintage Office Desk Lamp
Steel
Mid-20th Century Vintage Office Desk Lamp
Metal
1940s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Office Desk Lamp
Metal
Mid-20th Century Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage Office Desk Lamp
Steel
1980s Italian Vintage Office Desk Lamp
Metal, Chrome
1960s Italian Space Age Vintage Office Desk Lamp
Steel, Chrome
Mid-20th Century European Vintage Office Desk Lamp
Metal
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Office Desk Lamp
Driftwood
- 1
- ...
Vintage Office Desk Lamp For Sale on 1stDibs
How Much is a Vintage Office Desk Lamp?
Finding the Right Table-lamps for You
Well-crafted antique and vintage table lamps do more than provide light; the right fixture-and-table combination can add a focal point or creative element to any interior.
Proper table lamps have long been used for lighting our most intimate spaces. Perfect for lighting your nightstand or reading nook, table lamps play an integral role in styling an inviting room. In the years before electricity, lamps used oil. Today, a rewired 19th-century vintage lamp can still provide a touch of elegance for a study.
After industrial milestones such as mass production took hold in the Victorian era, various design movements sought to bring craftsmanship and innovation back to this indispensable household item. Lighting designers affiliated with Art Deco, which originated in the glamorous roaring ’20s, sought to celebrate modern life by fusing modern metals with dark woods and dazzling colors in the fixtures of the era. The geometric shapes and gilded details of vintage Art Deco table lamps provide an air of luxury and sophistication that never goes out of style.
After launching in 1934, Anglepoise lamps soon became a favorite among modernist architects and designers, who interpreted the fixture as “a machine for lighting,” just as Le Corbusier had reimagined the house as “a machine for living in.” The popular task light owed to a collaboration between a vehicle-suspension engineer by the name of George Carwardine and a West Midlands springs manufacturer, Herbert Terry & Sons.
Some mid-century modern table lamps, particularly those created by the likes of Joe Colombo and the legendary lighting artisans at Fontana Arte, bear all the provocative hallmarks associated with Space Age design. Sculptural and versatile, the Louis Poulsen table lamps of that period were revolutionary for their time and still seem innovative today.
If you are looking for something more contemporary, industrial table lamps are demonstrative of a newly chic style that isn’t afraid to pay homage to the past. They look particularly at home in any rustic loft space amid exposed brick and steel beams.
Before you buy a desk lamp or table lamp for your living room, consider your lighting needs. The Snoopy lamp, designed in 1967, or any other “banker’s lamp” (shorthand for the Emeralite desk lamps patented by H.G. McFaddin and Company), provides light at a downward angle that is perfect for writing, while the Fontana table lamp and the beloved Grasshopper lamp by Greta Magnusson-Grossman each yield a soft and even glow. Some table lamps require lampshades to be bought separately.
Whether it’s a classic antique Tiffany table lamp, a Murano glass table lamp or even a bold avant-garde fixture custom-made by a contemporary design firm, the right table lamp can completely transform a room. Find the right one for you on 1stDibs.
Read More
This Paavo Tynell Chandelier Is a Radiant Bouquet
The alluring pendant light exemplifies the designer’s winsome mid-career work.
Ettore Sottsass Captures a Shooting Star in This Rare 1970s Floor Lamp
Before founding the Memphis Group, Sottsass bent the rules of lighting design with the wonderfully wavy Cometa.
You Don’t Need a Fictional Fairy to Get This Real Pinocchio Lamp
Warm chalet style meets cool Bauhaus functionality in Pietro Cascella’s cleverly carved creation.
Why Is Italy Such a Hotbed of Cool Design?
Patrizio Chiarparini of Brooklyn’s Duplex gallery sheds light on the lasting legacy of Italy’s postwar furniture boom.
With a High-Tech Flagship and Cool Collabs, Lladró Is Breaking the Mold for Porcelain Production
Thanks to its new leadership, the Spanish maker of figurines, busts and lighting is on a mission to update the art of porcelain for the 21st century.
Christopher Tennant’s Lamps and Dioramas Evoke Sunny Days and Seaside Locales
The former magazine editor blends elements of the Far East and America’s eastern shores, bringing wit and delight to his handmade, upcycled designs.
Paavo Tynell’s Snowflake Chandelier Warms Up Any Room
This circa 1950 piece by the legendary Finnish lighting designer spent the past several decades in a family's home in Michigan.
NASA Parachutes Inspired Lighting Designer Bec Brittain’s New Collection
In "Paraciphers," now on view at Emma Scully Gallery in New York, Brittain introduces works that were more than a decade in the making.