Vintage Metal Desk Lamp
Mid-20th Century European Vintage Metal Desk Lamp
Metal
1930s German Bauhaus Vintage Metal Desk Lamp
Metal
Late 20th Century Italian Modern Vintage Metal Desk Lamp
Metal
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Metal Desk Lamp
Metal
20th Century French Other Vintage Metal Desk Lamp
Metal
1960s Vintage Metal Desk Lamp
Metal
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Metal Desk Lamp
Metal
Late 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Metal Desk Lamp
Metal, Chrome
Late 20th Century Post-Modern Vintage Metal Desk Lamp
Metal
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Metal Desk Lamp
Metal, Brass
1970s American Vintage Metal Desk Lamp
Brass, Metal, Wire
1960s German Space Age Vintage Metal Desk Lamp
Metal
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Metal Desk Lamp
Metal
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Metal Desk Lamp
Metal, Aluminum, Brass
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Metal Desk Lamp
Brass, Chrome, Metal
1960s German Minimalist Vintage Metal Desk Lamp
Metal
1940s German Bauhaus Vintage Metal Desk Lamp
Metal
Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Metal Desk Lamp
Metal
1950s Polish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Metal Desk Lamp
Metal, Chrome
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Metal Desk Lamp
Steel, Metal
1980s Italian Modern Vintage Metal Desk Lamp
Metal
Mid-20th Century Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Metal Desk Lamp
Metal, Brass
Late 20th Century American Post-Modern Vintage Metal Desk Lamp
Metal
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Metal Desk Lamp
Metal, Brass
1960s Italian Space Age Vintage Metal Desk Lamp
Aluminum
1970s German Vintage Metal Desk Lamp
Metal, Chrome
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Metal Desk Lamp
Metal
Mid-20th Century French Bauhaus Vintage Metal Desk Lamp
Brass, Copper
Mid-20th Century Italian Post-Modern Vintage Metal Desk Lamp
Metal
Late 20th Century Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage Metal Desk Lamp
Metal
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Metal Desk Lamp
Metal
1940s American Industrial Vintage Metal Desk Lamp
Iron
1950s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage Metal Desk Lamp
Metal
1930s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Metal Desk Lamp
Metal
1940s Danish Art Deco Vintage Metal Desk Lamp
Metal
Late 20th Century Mid-Century Modern Vintage Metal Desk Lamp
Metal
Late 20th Century Unknown Art Deco Vintage Metal Desk Lamp
Bronze, Steel
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Metal Desk Lamp
Marble, Metal, Chrome
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Metal Desk Lamp
Metal, Brass
Mid-20th Century Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Metal Desk Lamp
Metal
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Metal Desk Lamp
Metal
1980s Italian Hollywood Regency Vintage Metal Desk Lamp
Metal
1980s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage Metal Desk Lamp
Metal
1930s German Art Deco Vintage Metal Desk Lamp
Metal
1960s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Metal Desk Lamp
Metal
Mid-20th Century Czech Mid-Century Modern Vintage Metal Desk Lamp
Metal
Mid-20th Century European Modern Vintage Metal Desk Lamp
Metal
Mid-20th Century Italian Space Age Vintage Metal Desk Lamp
Metal
1950s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage Metal Desk Lamp
Steel
1980s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Metal Desk Lamp
Metal
Mid-20th Century Italian Vintage Metal Desk Lamp
Metal
Late 20th Century Modern Vintage Metal Desk Lamp
Metal
Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Vintage Metal Desk Lamp
Marble, Metal
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Metal Desk Lamp
Metal
1960s European Mid-Century Modern Vintage Metal Desk Lamp
Metal, Brass
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Metal Desk Lamp
Aluminum, Stainless Steel, Chrome
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Metal Desk Lamp
Metal, Brass, Steel
1970s German Vintage Metal Desk Lamp
Metal
1960s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage Metal Desk Lamp
Metal
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Metal Desk Lamp
Steel
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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.
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