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Vintage Tension Pole Lamp

Vintage Midcentury Multi-Color Lucite Tension Pole Floor Lamp, 1970s
Located in The Hague, NL
Rare modern midcentury 1970s multi-color shade floor to ceiling tension pole light. You can adjust
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Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps

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Vintage Chrome Space Age Tension Pole Lamp
Located in Pasadena, CA
Step into the future of mid-century design with this stunning Vintage Chrome Space Age Tension Pole
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20th Century American Floor Lamps

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MidCentury Adjustable Tension Spot Floor Pole Lamp Attr. to Hala Zeist
By Hala Zeist
Located in Vienna, AT
This beautiful and rare Pole lamp with three adjustable spots has been designed and manufactured in
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Vintage 1960s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps

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Metal

Guaranteed Original Curtis Jere Cloud Sconce
By Curtis Jeré
Located in Pasadena, CA
future of mid-century design with this stunning Vintage Chrome Space Age Tension Pole Lamp. With its
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Pair of Unusual Tension Pole Lamps by Stiffel
By Lightolier
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
A great pair of vintage brass pole lamps. In the style of Lightolier or Stilnovo made by Stiffel
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Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps

Materials

Brass

Midcentury Adjustable Tension Floor Pole Lamp by Gerald Thurston for Lightolier
By Lightolier
Located in Lisboa, PT
This pole lamp was designed by Gerald Thurston and manufactured by Lightolier, in USA, during the
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Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps

Materials

Metal, Brass

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Wall Sconce by Jacques Biny
$8,500
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By Lawson-Fenning
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Carrillo Lounge Chair by Lawson-Fenning
Carrillo Lounge Chair by Lawson-Fenning
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Vintage Tension Pole Lamp For Sale on 1stDibs

At 1stDibs, there are many versions of the ideal vintage tension pole lamp for your home. Each vintage tension pole lamp for sale was constructed with extraordinary care, often using metal, glass and brass. Your living room may not be complete without a vintage tension pole lamp — find older editions for sale from the 20th Century and newer versions made as recently as the 20th Century. Each vintage tension pole lamp bearing mid-century modern hallmarks is very popular. You’ll likely find more than one vintage tension pole lamp that is appealing in its simplicity, but Gerald Thurston, Lightolier and Stiffel produced versions that are worth a look.

How Much is a Vintage Tension Pole Lamp?

A vintage tension pole lamp can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price 1stDibs is $2,675, while the lowest priced sells for $900 and the highest can go for as much as $7,500.

A Close Look at Mid-century Modern Furniture

Organically shaped, clean-lined and elegantly simple are three terms that well describe vintage mid-century modern furniture. The style, which emerged primarily in the years following World War II, is characterized by pieces that were conceived and made in an energetic, optimistic spirit by creators who believed that good design was an essential part of good living.

ORIGINS OF MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGN

CHARACTERISTICS OF MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGN

MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNERS TO KNOW

ICONIC MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNS

VINTAGE MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE ON 1STDIBS

The mid-century modern era saw leagues of postwar American architects and designers animated by new ideas and new technology. The lean, functionalist International-style architecture of Le Corbusier and Bauhaus eminences Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius had been promoted in the United States during the 1930s by Philip Johnson and others. New building techniques, such as “post-and-beam” construction, allowed the International-style schemes to be realized on a small scale in open-plan houses with long walls of glass.

Materials developed for wartime use became available for domestic goods and were incorporated into mid-century modern furniture designs. Charles and Ray Eames and Eero Saarinen, who had experimented extensively with molded plywood, eagerly embraced fiberglass for pieces such as the La Chaise and the Womb chair, respectively. 

Architect, writer and designer George Nelson created with his team shades for the Bubble lamp using a new translucent polymer skin and, as design director at Herman Miller, recruited the Eameses, Alexander Girard and others for projects at the legendary Michigan furniture manufacturer

Harry Bertoia and Isamu Noguchi devised chairs and tables built of wire mesh and wire struts. Materials were repurposed too: The Danish-born designer Jens Risom created a line of chairs using surplus parachute straps for webbed seats and backrests.

The Risom lounge chair was among the first pieces of furniture commissioned and produced by celebrated manufacturer Knoll, a chief influencer in the rise of modern design in the United States, thanks to the work of Florence Knoll, the pioneering architect and designer who made the firm a leader in its field. The seating that Knoll created for office spaces — as well as pieces designed by Florence initially for commercial clients — soon became desirable for the home.

As the demand for casual, uncluttered furnishings grew, more mid-century furniture designers caught the spirit.

Classically oriented creators such as Edward Wormley, house designer for Dunbar Inc., offered such pieces as the sinuous Listen to Me chaise; the British expatriate T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings switched gears, creating items such as the tiered, biomorphic Mesa table. There were Young Turks such as Paul McCobb, who designed holistic groups of sleek, blond wood furniture, and Milo Baughman, who espoused a West Coast aesthetic in minimalist teak dining tables and lushly upholstered chairs and sofas with angular steel frames.

Generations turn over, and mid-century modern remains arguably the most popular style going. As the collection of vintage mid-century modern chairs, dressers, coffee tables and other furniture for the living room, dining room, bedroom and elsewhere on 1stDibs demonstrates, this period saw one of the most delightful and dramatic flowerings of creativity in design history.

Finding the Right Floor-lamps for You

The modern floor lamp is an evolution of torchères — tall floor candelabras that originated in France as a revolutionary development in lighting homes toward the end of the 17th century. Owing to the advent of electricity and the introduction of new materials as a part of lighting design, floor lamps have taken on new forms and configurations over the years. 

In the early 1920s, Art Deco lighting artisans worked with dark woods and modern metals, introducing unique designs that still inspire the look of modern floor lamps developed by contemporary firms such as Luxxu

Popular mid-century floor lamps include everything from the enchanting fixtures by the Italian lighting artisans at Stilnovo to the distinctly functional Grasshopper floor lamp created by Scandinavian design pioneer Greta Magnusson-Grossman to the Paracarro floor lamp by the Venetian master glass workers at Mazzega. Among the more celebrated names in mid-century lighting design are Milanese innovators Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, who, along with their eldest brother, Livio, worked for their own firm as architects and designers. While Livio departed the practice in 1952, Achille and Pier Giacomo would go on to design the Arco floor lamp, the Toio floor lamp and more for legendary lighting brands such as FLOS

Today’s upscale interiors frequently integrate the otherworldly custom lighting solutions created by a wealth of contemporary firms and designers such as Spain’s Masquespacio, whose Wink floor lamps integrate gold as well as fabric fringes. 

Visual artists and industrial designers have a penchant for floor lamps, possibly because they’re so often a clever marriage of design and the functions of lighting. A good floor lamp can change the mood of any room while adding a touch of elegance to your entire space. Find yours now on 1stDibs.