Vintage Table Top Bird Lamp
20th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Vintage Table Top Bird Lamp
Porcelain
1970s American Hollywood Regency Vintage Table Top Bird Lamp
Brass
1980s American Post-Modern Vintage Table Top Bird Lamp
Plaster
1970s Italian Hollywood Regency Vintage Table Top Bird Lamp
Copper
1960s American Vintage Table Top Bird Lamp
Brass
Late 20th Century Louis XV Vintage Table Top Bird Lamp
Ceramic
1970s American Hollywood Regency Vintage Table Top Bird Lamp
Nickel
1980s American Hollywood Regency Vintage Table Top Bird Lamp
Metal
1950s American Modern Vintage Table Top Bird Lamp
Walnut
Mid-20th Century Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Table Top Bird Lamp
Ceramic, Pottery, Stoneware
1960s Vintage Table Top Bird Lamp
Porcelain
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Table Top Bird Lamp
Brass
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Vintage Table Top Bird Lamp
Copper
Mid-20th Century Chinoiserie Vintage Table Top Bird Lamp
Metal
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Table Top Bird Lamp
Iron
Mid-20th Century European Mid-Century Modern Vintage Table Top Bird Lamp
Brass, Metal
1950s Chinese Vintage Table Top Bird Lamp
Brass
Late 20th Century Italian Hollywood Regency Vintage Table Top Bird Lamp
Travertine, Brass
1970s American Modern Vintage Table Top Bird Lamp
Brass, Steel, Chrome
1940s Vintage Table Top Bird Lamp
Soapstone, Metal
Mid-20th Century French Empire Revival Vintage Table Top Bird Lamp
Metal
Mid-20th Century Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Table Top Bird Lamp
Crystal
Mid-20th Century American Chinese Export Vintage Table Top Bird Lamp
Bronze
20th Century Qing Vintage Table Top Bird Lamp
Porcelain
1980s North American Chinoiserie Vintage Table Top Bird Lamp
Brass
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Table Top Bird Lamp
Ceramic
1960s German Vintage Table Top Bird Lamp
Pottery
1940s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Table Top Bird Lamp
Metal, Brass, Zinc
20th Century English Vintage Table Top Bird Lamp
Glass
Late 20th Century Vintage Table Top Bird Lamp
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Table Top Bird Lamp
Metal, Brass
1950s European Empire Vintage Table Top Bird Lamp
Bronze
20th Century Vintage Table Top Bird Lamp
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century Vintage Table Top Bird Lamp
Wood, Rattan, Wicker
Mid-20th Century French Vintage Table Top Bird Lamp
Maple
20th Century American Neoclassical Vintage Table Top Bird Lamp
Marble
Mid-20th Century Unknown Vintage Table Top Bird Lamp
Wood
Mid-20th Century Unknown Vintage Table Top Bird Lamp
Wood
1970s American Chinoiserie Vintage Table Top Bird Lamp
Wood
Mid-20th Century Louis XV Vintage Table Top Bird Lamp
Bronze
20th Century French French Provincial Vintage Table Top Bird Lamp
Wood
1980s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Table Top Bird Lamp
Laminate, Wood
20th Century French Vintage Table Top Bird Lamp
Brass
1970s Chinese Chinoiserie Vintage Table Top Bird Lamp
Brass
20th Century Japanese Showa Vintage Table Top Bird Lamp
Wood, Ceramic
20th Century French Art Deco Vintage Table Top Bird Lamp
Alabaster
20th Century European Art Nouveau Vintage Table Top Bird Lamp
Bronze
Mid-20th Century Italian Chinese Export Vintage Table Top Bird Lamp
Resin
Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Vintage Table Top Bird Lamp
Brass, Enamel
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Table Top Bird Lamp
Brass, Nickel
1940s French Vintage Table Top Bird Lamp
1970s Italian Vintage Table Top Bird Lamp
Gold Plate, Brass
1970s American Hollywood Regency Vintage Table Top Bird Lamp
Nickel
1970s French Modern Vintage Table Top Bird Lamp
Metal, Enamel
1940s Chinese Vintage Table Top Bird Lamp
Metal, Bronze
1960s Italian Hollywood Regency Vintage Table Top Bird Lamp
Ceramic, Porcelain
20th Century Vintage Table Top Bird Lamp
Brass
1980s American Hollywood Regency Vintage Table Top Bird Lamp
Composition, Metal, Brass
1970s Italian Hollywood Regency Vintage Table Top Bird Lamp
Chrome
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Table Top Bird Lamp
Ceramic
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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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