Post modern light Blue Halogen Floor lamp Design by Jordi Vilardell
By Sargot, Jordi Vilardell
Located in Den Haag, NL
Very nice Floor lamp .Halogen 300 Watt ,comes with a good working dimmer . Beathiful original light Blue Color . Design by Spanish designer Jordi Vilardell for Sargot . 1980s . mode...
Metal
Post-Modern Octaëder Floor Lamp or Light Object by Marcel Simons, 1993
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Magical and rare Post-Modern Octaëder floor lamp or light object.
Glass
Post Modern Brushed Metal Dual Light Table Lamp by Michael Graves
By Michael Graves (b.1934)
Located in San Diego, CA
Post Modern Brushed Metal Dual Table Lamp by Michael Graves, circa 1990s. Add a bold Postmodern touch with this Brushed Metal Dual Table Lamp by Michael Graves. This lamp is in good ...
Metal
$150Sale Price|50% Off
Vintage Post Modern Desk Lamp ... 1980s Adjustable Folding Task Light, Modular
Located in Chicago, IL
Folding post modern desk lamp made of high-impact plastic.
Plastic
$950Sale Price|48% Off
Oversized Pop Art Post Modern Memphis Glass Light Bulb Lamp
By Memphis Group
Located in Chicago, IL
Oversized Pop Art glass light bulb lamp. Appears to be from the early 1980s. High quality. Possibly made in Italy. Memphis Ettore Sottsass Arredoluce style.
Glass
Tall Post Modern Italian Torchiere Uplight & Accent Light
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Fabulous post modern Torchiere from Italy. Ribbed steel post with a double light, top light for an Uplight and a second light angled to reflect the light into the room. Floor switch ...
Steel
A POP POST-MODERN Lucite TABLE LAMP by MARIE-CLAUDE DE FOUQUIERES France 1970
By Marie-Claude de Fouquieres
Located in PARIS, FR
DESCRIPTION: An exceptional and sculptural monolythic table lamp or night light, Post-Modernist, Pop, Space-Age, in a block of massive yellow amber fractal resin, illuminated transpa...
Lucite, Plexiglass
Modern Desk or Table Light Lamp, circa 1970s
Located in New York, NY
A '70s Modern or Postmodern period wood desk or table lamp with white globe-like lamp/bulb, circa late-20th century, 1970s, USA. In fine working order. On/Off switch on cord a shown....
Wood
Petite Metal Desk Lamp Retro Orange Eyeball Light 1970s
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Retro Petite Metal Desk Lamp in Bright Orange - 1970s Eyeball Design. This vintage orange retro desk American lamp that captures the essence of 1970s design. With its space-age aesth...
Metal
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
Lucitalia KRI Floor Lamp Red Metal Adjustable Italian Postmodern Halogen Light
By Shigeaki Asahara
Located in Lisboa, PT
A rare and highly architectural “KRI Supporto Lettura” floor lamp designed by S. Asahara and A. Yamamoto for Lucitalia, Italy, circa late 1980s. This piece is a refined example of It...
Metal, Aluminum, Steel, Chrome
Rare Arturo Silva Light Projector or Table Lamp Galileo Sistema for Antonangeli
By Achille & Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Antonangeli, Guzzini, Studio BBPR
Located in München, BY
Extremely rare post-modern light projector or table lamp. Model 'Galileo Sistema'.
Steel, Iron
Postmodern Dutch Glass Cone Table Lamp from Mobo Light, Holland, 1980s
Located in Hamburg, DE
Simple cone table lamp made of glass from Mobo Light from the Netherlands. The cone-shaped diffuser is made entirely of glass. The glass is overlaid green. The cable exits visibly f...
Glass
Andrea Bellosi – “Arc en Ciel” Table Lamp (Rainbow Light) Studio Alchimia, Italy
By Studio Alchimia
Located in Dronten, NL
An expressive and highly collectible postmodern table lamp designed by Andrea Bellosi for Studio Alchimia, the seminal Milanese design collective that redefined radical Italian desig...
Carrara Marble, Steel
Vladimir Kagan Stalagmite Large Floor Lamp Modern Brass Bubble Light, 1970s, USA
By Vladimir Kagan
Located in Philadelphia, PA
An exceptional and unique Vladimir Kagan (American, 1927-2016) Stalagmite floor lamp. Designed and created by Vladimir Kagan Designs, Inc, USA. This functional floor lamp is circa 19...
Brass
Set of 2 Postmodern German Table Floor Lamps light blue white Swirl Pattern, 80s
Located in Hamburg, DE
Set of 2 Postmodern German Table and Floor Lamp with light blue and white Swirl Pattern, 1980s Postmodern lamps with a playful pattern. Here as a rare set of floor and table lamp. ...
Metal
Rare pair of Royal Copenhagen "Blå Kant" porcelain tables lamp light blue glaze.
By Royal Copenhagen
Located in København K, 84
A rare pair of porcelain table lamps from Royal Copenhagen’s esteemed “Blå Kant” line designed by architect and designer Grethe Meyer in 1960s, reimagined in lighting form during the...
Porcelain, Ceramic
$3,950
Vintage Cube Light
Located in Toronto, CA
Like building blocks for grown-ups. This large cube floor lamp stacks bold geometric forms in sunny yellow and cream, striking the perfect balance between playful and architectural. ...
Plastic
1970s Koch+Lowy Brass Floor Lamp 3 Pivoting Heads Vintage Mid-Century Tri-Light
By Koch & Lowy
Located in Hyattsville, MD
This vintage floor lamp by Koch & Lowy, comes in polished brass, with three pivoting rounded light shades, attached to an artfully bent stem, on a circular base; on/off switch includ...
Metal
Pair of Memphis THUN Czech Porcelain Checkerboard Tea Light Candle Lamps
Located in Toronto, CA
This striking pair of Post-Modern candle lamps was crafted by **THUN 1794**, the renowned Czech porcelain manufacturer celebrated for more than two centuries of exceptional porcelain...
Porcelain
Arched Glass with Yellow Painted Desk Light
By Ettore Sottsass
Located in Tokyo, Tokyo
This desk lamp has two glass shades painted in a vivid yellow. The glass is frosted, creating a contrast in the way the light spreads. Even when it is not lit, the peeling paint give...
Steel
Light Object by Studio Rossi Molinari, TOTEM, 1969
By TOTEM, Studio Rossi-Molinari
Located in Berlin, DE
This very rare icon of Italian lighting design was created by Studio Rossi Molinari for TOTEM in 1969. The pink transparent colors and shape make it a real eye-catcher!
Acrylic
Doug Spalding Studio Pottery Robot Night Light Sculpture
Located in Brooklyn, NY
For your consideration is this whimsical ceramic robot sculpture night light by Michigan based artist, Doug Spalding. It features handmade construction, fun, vibrant colors, and is s...
Ceramic
Ron Arad Aerial Light for One Off, UK 1982
By One Off, Ltd., Ron Arad
Located in Chicago, IL
Ron Arad Aerial Light for One Off, UK (1982) Rare, robotic lamp designed by Ron Arad, adjustable via a wireless controller. The controller features a printed manufacturer’s mark: "On...
Aluminum, Steel, Wire
Adjustable Nickel-Plated Brass Desk Light by Holtkötter Germany 1980s
Located in München, BY
Elegant and adjustable vintage brass desk light. With adjustable arm and rotating lamp shade. Designed and manufactured by Holtkötter, Germany, 1980s. Executed in nickel-plated bras...
Brass, Nickel
Ernesto Gismondi for Artemide First Edition 'Sintesi' Red Clamp Light
By Ernesto Gismondi, Artemide
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Ernesto Gismondi for Artemide, multi-way clamp lamp, model 'Sintesi Faretto Morsetto', first edition, coated iron, coated steel, aluminum, rubber, plastic, Italy, design 1976 The fo...
Metal, Iron
Gianfranco Fini for New Lamp 'Programma' Wall Light in Stainless Steel
By New Lamp
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Gianfranco Fini for New Lamp, 'Programma' lamp, stainless steel, circa 1970 Expressive wall light by Italian designer Gianfranco Fini designed in circa 1970.
Stainless Steel
$655Sale Price|50% Off
Mid 20thCentury Post Impressionist 'Mending Garments by Lamp Light' oil c1930's
Located in Frome, Somerset
A fine mid 20th century post impressionist oil of a young woman sewing by lamplight circa 1960's oil on canvas 46cmx 70cm good gallery frame 63cmx 88cm Very atmospheric light effect ...
Oil
Postmodern Light Lite Ceiling Lamp by Philippe Starck for Flos, 1990s
By Philippe Starck
Located in Hamburg, DE
Postmodern Light Lite Ceiling Lamp by Philippe Starck for Flos, 1990s - Design classics from Flos, by the designer Philippe Starck from the early 90s - The lamp is made entirely fro...
Plastic
Set of 2 Vintage Postmodern Glass Wall Lamps from DIY Light, 1980s
Located in Hamburg, DE
Vintage Postmodern Glass Wall Lamps from DIY Light, 1980s, Set of 2, in Very Good conditions. Designed 1980 to 1989 This piece has an attribution mark, Up to 250V (Europe/UK Standard...
Metal
$742Sale Price|10% Off
Italian hand-blown light bulb-shaped ceiling lamp by Due P, Italie 1980
Located in La xara, VC
A lamp with a unique original design from the late 1980s, designed in the shape of a light bulb. The hand-polished glass has a soft satin finish that delicately diffuses the light, c...
Murano Glass
Johanna Grawunder Memphis Large Yellow Black Light Wall Lamps (4), Italy 1989
By Johanna Grawunder, Memphis Group
Located in Vienna, AT
Four early Johanna Grawunder lighting panels or sconces for Memphis, Italy, 1989. Dimensions per piece: 43.3"x29.5"x2". Sold and priced individually. New York based designer/archi...
Metal
Unavailable
H 51.19 in W 13.78 in D 13.78 in
Huge Floor Lamp by Doria 'Germany' Vintage Glass Light 1960s-1970s Chrome Silver
By Doria Leuchten Germany
Located in Hamburg, HH
Floor lamp from 1960s-1970s, made by Doria from Germany. Chromed metal stand construction, oval spherical clear glass diffuser with bladder inclusions, inside four burners and three...
Chrome
Murano Floor Light by Vetri, Italy
By Murano 5
Located in Armadale, Victoria
Spectacular and rare Murano floor lamp by Vettri, Italy with chromed tripod base. There are several internal globes which can be dimmed. Original label on glass.
Chrome
Unavailable
H 26.78 in W 33.47 in D 7.09 in
Postmodern XL Size Wall Lamp, Accent Light, Murano Glass, Italy 1980s
Located in Zagreb, HR
Stunning large sculptural wall lamp, abstract form inspired by the head of a Medusa from the Greek mythology Country of origin: Italy It's absolutely rare and unique The la...
Stainless Steel
Sold
H 66.5 in W 16 in D 11 in
Vintage Charlie Chaplin Concrete Outdoor Lamp Post Light Statue Sculpture
Located in Dayton, OH
Mid 20th century Charlie Chaplin electrified concrete post light. Great for indoor or outdoor use. Features Charlie dressed in white and black with red scarf and top hat. He is leani...
Concrete
Penta Tocco Wood Table Lamp, Oak with Wenge Finish, Post-Modern, Italy
Located in Astoria, NY
Penta "Tocco" Wood Table Lamp, egg shaped in oak wood with wenge finish and glass shade. 14" H x 12" Diameter. Provenance: From a New York City Collection.
Wood
Penta Tocco Wood Table Lamp, Oak with Wenge Finish, Post-Modern, Italy
Located in Astoria, NY
Penta "Tocco" Wood Table Lamp, egg shaped in oak wood with wenge finish. Missing glass shade. 14" H x 12" Diameter. Provenance: From a New York City Collection.
Wood
Post modern Black Laminate Lighted Pedestal Lamp
By Milo Baughman
Located in San Diego, CA
Versatile lighted pedestal lamp , circa 1980's black glossy laminated walls , with a white plastic top very nice and clean condition push off/ on Switch great for display sculptures ...
Plastic, Laminate
Sold
H 68 in W 25 in D 11 in
Post Modern Giant Brass Floor Lamp Luxo Articulating Architect Drafting Light
By Luxo
Located in BROOKLYN, NY
Large post modern Floor lamp Drafting Architect's Articulating Lamp by LUXO in brass.
Brass
Penta "Tocco" Wood Table Lamp
Located in Astoria, NY
Penta "Tocco" Wood Table Lamp, egg shaped in oak wood with wenge finish. Lacking glass shade. 14" H x 12" Diameter. Provenance: From a New York City Collection. Keywords: Postmodern ...
Oak
Penta "Tocco" Wood Table Lamp
Located in Astoria, NY
Penta "Tocco" Wood Table Lamp, Spherical shaped in oak wood with wenge finish and glass shade. 10" H x 10" Diameter. Provenance: From a New York City Collection.
Glass, Oak
Penta "Tocco" Wood Table Lamp
Located in Astoria, NY
Penta "Tocco" Wood Table Lamp, egg shaped in oak wood with wenge finish and glass shade. 14" H x 12" Diameter. Provenance: From a New York City Collection.
Glass, Oak
Rare Italian Post-Modern Light Sculpture / Table Lamp by Masayo Ave
By Antonangeli, Masayo Ave
Located in New York, NY
A light sculpture / desk / table lamp made from sponge creating a warm lighting presence and brilliant sculptural form by Japanese Artist, Masayo Ave, designed in 1998 for Antonangel...
Penta Cherrywood and Woven Straw Floor Lamp
Located in Astoria, NY
Penta Cherrywood, Chrome, and Woven Straw Floor Lamp, with original label. 62.25" H x 16" Diameter. Provenance: From a Vintage Collection of Italian Designer Furniture Samples.
Chrome
Pair of X Base Post Modern Pop Art Light Bulb Table Lamps
Located in Keego Harbor, MI
A pair of x-base post modern pop art light bulb table lamps. These super cool, playful table lamps feature oversized light bulbs in metal cage housings.
Metal
Sold
H 29.93 in W 14.57 in D 7.88 in
Vintage Revolving Light Up Box depicting Marlboro Cigarette Pack, USA 1980s
By Marlboro Lamp Co.
Located in Beograd, RS
In this listing you will find an extraordinary and very rare light up box depicting Marlboro Cigarette Pack. It was made as an ad, and it features an internal light that lights up wh...
Acrylic
Vintage Light Bulb Table Lamp
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pop art light bulb desk lamp in the style of Ingo Maurer. Chrome base designed to look like the threads on a light bulb with a glass cover held in place with chrome screws. In good v...
Chrome
Goffredo Reggiani Four Light Standing Floor Lamp
By Goffredo Reggiani
Located in Astoria, NY
Goffredo Reggiani (Italian, 1929-2004), Italian Stilnovo four light standing floor lamp for Reggiani Studios(designed 1970s) the square base with four canted supports of varying heig...
Chrome
Dutch Ceramic Prototype Table Lamp / Light Sculpture, Circa 1980s
Located in London, GB
For sale a fabulous Dutch Postmodern handmade prototype ceramic Table Lamp or Light Sculpture, dating from circa 1980s. The lamp, which is numbered on both inside halves but is ...
Metal
1970's, Robert Sonneman Chrome Tube Floor Lamp Reading Light
By Robert Sonneman
Located in Chicago, IL
Chrome steel tube floor lamp by Robert Sonneman, 1970s. 90 degree angle tube design, 2" width tube. Condition: Very good vintage condition. Some minor rust underneath the chrom...
Chrome
Mod Three-Light Floor Lamp Designed by Gerald Thurston for Lightolier
By Lightolier, Gerald Thurston
Located in New York, NY
Mod style floor lamp having three independent hood shades ( each hood shade 7 in L x 6 in Dia. ) each shade can be directed to point light and each has its' own on/off switch. Groovy...
Sold
H 20.08 in W 22.45 in D 22.45 in
Iconic Tom Dixon "JACK LIGHT" Floor Lamp-Stool by EuroLounge, 1994
By Tom Dixon
Located in London, GB
For sale is an iconic and seminal piece of Tom Dixon design, the “Jack light”, designed in 1994 and produced by Eurolounge Ltd from 1996. This "sitting, stacking, lighting thing", wh...
Plastic
Sold
H 15.75 in W 3.15 in D 6.3 in
Postmodern table lamp DELFINO Mario Bertorelle for JM RDM Halogen light Vintage
By Mario Bertorelle
Located in Buggiano, IT
Pair of beautiful post-modern plastic table lamps by Mario Bertorelle, Dolphin model, original vintage from the 70's by JM Illuminazione.
Plastic
Sold
H 54.73 in W 11.82 in D 11.82 in
Gian Nicola Gigante Fluorescent Floor Lamp, Neon Light, by Zerbetto, Italy, 1980
By Zerbetto, Gian Nicola Gigante
Located in Munster, NRW
This Postmodern style fluorescent floor lamp for Zerbetto consists of a green metal frame on a black stand, which holds two neon tubes. A clean and simple graphic design, functional ...
Metal, Wire
Sold
H 28 in W 12 in D 8 in
1980s Postmodern Black and Gold Sculptural Table Lamp with 3-Light Settings
Located in Toronto, CA
This vintage 1980s Postmodern table lamp embodies the bold, geometric spirit of the Memphis design movement. Featuring three perforated black metal tubular shades with gold trim, eac...
Metal
Neon Light Sculpture
Located in Miami, FL
Turquoise and purple neon flow from a pink sand textured ceramic vessel. Artist Signed, 1990.
Ceramic, Glass
Vintage Folding Task Light
Located in Fairfield, CA
A vintage adjustable task light. Folds into a nice compact size. A switch on the base can toggle between a high and low setting.
Plastic
Philips garden column light, 1980s.
By Philips
Located in Athens, Attiki
PHILIPS. Glossy black plastic garden column lights. The Netherlands, 1980s. Excellent condition, never used, in its original box.
Plastic
Vintage Extension Tensor Task Light
Located in Fairfield, CA
A vintage adjustable task light. Made of off-white plastic. Folds into a nice compact size with a neck that extends to adjust the height. Operated by a switch on the base and can be ...
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.
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.