Vintage Tapestry Wallpaper Roller Table Lamp, Mid-20th Century
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Danish industrial table lamp, modified from vintage tapestry wallpaper roller in metal.
Brass, Iron
$1,496Sale Price / set|20% Off
Pair of Early 20th Century American Wallpaper Roller Table Lamps
Located in Wainscott, NY
Lovely, elegant and feminine pair of wall paper rollers transformed into a pair of lamps. The color is a dusty light shade of off white with a hint of pink. Each piece unique in its ...
Metal
Lovely Pair of Vintage Wood and Metal Wallpaper Roller Table Lamps
Located in Hopewell, NJ
Pair of vintage wood and raised metal wallpaper roller lamps with lovely dragonflies and foliage. 36” H to finial Base 6” Diameter Shade 11” H x 16” Diameter
Wood
$700Sale Price|21% Off
Wonderful Wallpaper Roller Lamp
Located in Hopewell, NJ
Stunning lamp having a column shaped base made from a wallpaper roller having a dark brown background and decorative raised flowers in a bronze color. Custom shade: W 15” x 11 ¼.
Wood
$715Sale Price|20% Off
Vintage Wallpaper Printing Roller as Table Lamp
Located in San Francisco, CA
A lamp made from a vintage roller for printing wallpaper. The imprinting elements are brass swirling leaves; mounted on a square, wooden base; adjustable harp, newly wired with a dim...
Metal, Brass
Exceptional Vintage Brutalist Wallpaper Roller Lamp
Located in Antwerp, BE
A stunning large-scale vintage wallpaper roller as lamp. Dating from the 1890s, this industrial fabric or wallpaper roller has been up cycled at some point in time into a table lamp.
Brass
Pair of Vintage French Wallpaper Printing Roller Table Lamps
Located in Pittsburgh, PA
Pair of Vintage French Wallpaper Printing Roller Table Lamps, circa 1960.
Brass
Antique Swedish Wallpaper Printing Roller Table Lamp, Early 20th Century
Located in Stockholm, SE
Antique Swedish table lamp created from an original wallpaper printing roller, dating from the early 20th century.
Metal
Vintage Lamp Made from Wallpaper Ink Roller
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
A wonderful repurposed–or upcycled–vintage wallpaper ink roller into a table lamp. Topped with a new, conical shade in white linen, the cylinder is punctuated by what remains of the ...
Metal
Exceptional Pair of Vintage Wallpaper Roller Lamps
Located in Atlanta, GA
A stunning pair of large-scale vintage wallpaper rollers as lamps, circa 1940. Heavy hardwood cylinder form decorated with solid brass motifs. Accents of lacquered steel and brass. E...
Brass, Steel
Antique Victorian Industrial Fabric or Wallpaper Printing Roller Lamp
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
Dating from the 1890s, this industrial fabric or wallpaper roller has been up cycled at some point in time into a table lamp.
Metal
Handsome Restored Pair of Vintage Wallpaper Rollers as Lamps
Located in Atlanta, GA
An exceptional pair of vintage wallpaper rollers as custom lamps. The pieces portray the rich look of aged leather. Fabulous detail and scale. Exquisite jewelry! Excellent restored c...
Brass
English Vintage Ink Roller Table Lamp
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
English 20th century wallpaper ink-roller repurposed as a table lamp. The carved cylinder reveals a fabulous overlapping fishscale motif with Art Nouveau flourish, which surely would...
Wood, Rubber, Linen
Wallpaper Roller Table Lamps 1950's
Located in Fulton, CA
Here is a matched pair of vintage wallpaper roller table lamps with vintage Paul Hanson lamp shades.
Brass
Wallpaper Roller Lamp
By Simeona Leona
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Wallpaper roller fashioned into lamp. Custom burlap Lampshade.
Wallpaper Roller Lamp
Located in Fairhope, AL
Each roller is a unique, one of a kind, handmade machine part that was used to print wallpaper dating back to 1839. The design was carved and milled with brass into the roller by a s...
Wallpaper Roller Lamp
Located in Fairhope, AL
Each roller is a unique, one of a kind, handmade machine part that was used to print wallpaper dating back to 1839. The design was carved and milled with brass into the roller by a s...
Art Deco French Wallpaper Roller Lamp
Located in Harbor Springs, MI
Art Deco, French wallpaper roller with lucite base and finial topped with bleach burlap lamp shade. Roller is unique with old, forest wood core, brass filigree. Shade: 15" diameter, ...
Lucite, Burlap
Vintage Wallpaper Roller Lamp c. 1910
Located in Culver City, CA
Lamp made from a wood wallpaper roll, originally used to print wall paper. This piece is a nice example of early 20th century craftsmanship with it's carved wooden patterning in a si...
Wood
Two Hardwood Cylinder Vintage Wallpaper Roller Lamps
Located in Lakeville, CT
Two wallpaper rollers in similar sizes work well together when united by common shades. The designs are apparent on each in both the raised designs for hand blocked wallpaper, and in...
Hardwood
Art Deco Red French Wallpaper Roller Lamp
Located in Harbor Springs, MI
Art Deco French wallpaper roller. Roller is unique with old, forest wood core, brass filigree. White linen shade. Newly electrified.
Brass
Unavailable
H 36 in W 7 in D 7 in
Table Lamp from Industrial Wallpaper Printing Roller from the Early 1990s
Located in Madison, WI
Table lamp created from roller used to print wallpaper in the late 1800s.
Brass
Seven French Art Deco Wooden Wallpaper Roller Lamp Bases
Located in Woodbury, CT
These vintage rollers from the 1930s are truly unusual and would make great lamps or sculptural elements on a mantlepiece or table.
Bronze
1960s Wallpaper Roller Table Lamp
Located in High Point, NC
A wooden table lamp from France, produced circa 1960. A three foot tall wooden cylinder, capped by a sloping black ring and a crown of protruding pegs, with an abstract motif in shad...
Brass
Wallpaper Roller Table Lamp, France, Midcentury
Located in New York, NY
Midcentury French lamp base converted from wallpaper rollers. Wooden with metal bands. The shade pole is adjustable. Two light sockets with pull chains. Recently rewired. Low he...
Wood
Beautiful Pair of Wallpaper Roller Table Lamps
Located in Hopewell, NJ
Absolutely stunning tall pair of lamps with bases made from vintage wallpaper rollers in a wonderful grey taupey color, having lovely raised decorative patterns, wooden bases and cus...
French Art Deco Wood Wallpaper Roller Table Lamp
Located in Houston, TX
Converted vintage wooden wallpaper roller lamp. Made from an original wallpaper roller used to add coloring and designs to wall paper. This particular roller would have been used to ...
Lucite, Wood
Midcentury Wallpaper Roller Lamps
Located in Pomona, CA
Gorgeous pair of vintage brown wallpaper roller table lamps, great color and design pattern.
Brass
Vintage French Wallpaper Roller Lamps
By The Marbro Lamp Company, Fornasetti
Located in San Diego, CA
Decorative matched pair of tall cylindrical French Art Deco wallpaper roller table lamps with shades. Measurements: Overall height with shade: 42" Lamp base to top of column: 25...
Wallpaper Roller Lamps
Located in Atlanta, GA
Wallpaper roller lamps, American, circa 1950s. Constructed from wood and metal rollers originally used to print wallpaper. Great textural patterns throughout. They retain their warm ...
Metal, Brass
Wallpaper Roller Lamps
Located in New York, NY
These lamps were made from old wallpaper rollers that were used to print the patterns onto the wallpaper. Four different styles are available as seen in the pictures.
Metal
Wallpaper Roller Lamp
Located in New York, NY
Brown wallpaper roller made into a wonderful lamp base.
Metal design elements surround the wood base.
Metal
Pair wallpaper roller lamps
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
Pair wall paper rollers made into lamps
Brass
Wallpaper Roller Lamp, France, 1940s
Located in New York, NY
Decorative 1940s French wallpaper roller lamp with a custom shade and base. Was originally used as a wallpaper roller. It's since been made into a lamp. Recently rewired. Measure: T...
Metal
Wallpaper Roller Lamp, French, 19th Century
Located in Doylestown, PA
A 19th century French wallpaper roller, mounted as a lamp. Painted red finish with brass raised floral pattern.
Wood
1950's French Wallpaper Roller Lamp
Located in New York, NY
This lamp has a custom hand painted paper shade. The base is made from a vintage wallpaper roller used to print a wallpaper design. The shade diameter is 18.
The base diamete...
Wood
French 1950's Wallpaper Roller Lamp
Located in New York, NY
The base to this lamp was a wallpaper print roller. The the shade is custom hand painted. The shade diameter is 18". The base is 5" diam.
Wood
Pair of Chic Wallpaper Roller Lamps
Located in Amarillo, TX
We had these modern lamps made from vintage 1960's wallpaper rollers, originally used to print a fabulous asian inspired block design. Great burnt orange color is the rubber itself,...
Set of 4 Striking Wallpaper Printing Roller Lamps from the 60's
By The Marbro Lamp Company
Located in Mexico, DF
Set of four unique table lamps manufactured in the 60s by Marbro Light Company from Los Angeles, California. Marbro (Markoff Brothers) was a company created after WWII in the garment...
Brass
Vintage Lamp Made From Wallpaper Ink Roller
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
A wonderful repurposed–or upcycled–vintage wallpaper ink roller into a table lamp. Topped with a new, conical shade in white linen, the wood cylinder is armored with rows of metal bl...
Metal
A Pair of French Wallpaper Roller Lamps, circa 1960s
Located in New York, NY
A pair of French walnut and brass table lamps, made from antique wallpaper print rollers.
Brass
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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