Sciolari Lighting was the first Italian lighting company to sell its pieces in the United States. Its luminous work spanned decades of styles and innovative designs, including striking chandeliers, table lamps and wall lights.
Italian designer Angelo Gaetano Sciolari took over his family’s lighting company after his father’s death in 1949. He had studied architecture and was previously pursuing a career as a film director. In the 1950s, Sciolari became an in-house designer for Italian entrepreneur and designer Bruno Gatta and his lighting manufacturing company Stilnovo.
By the late 1960s, Sciolari was using his own manufacturing company in combination with Lightolier to reach the American market. His 1970s designs are considered among his best work, including the Cubic Chandelier and other pieces from his Cubic Series, which featured in popular American television shows such as Dallas.
A talented designer, Sciolari preferred using crystal and glass with polished metals, including unconventional combinations like brass and chrome. He crossed many design styles and drew influence from art movements including Cubism, Deconstructivism and Minimalism. His later work, in collaboration with S.A. Boulanger and Stilkronen, involved Hollywood Regency-style fixtures, while his 1970s work reflected Art Deco influences and Space Age aesthetics.
On 1stDibs, find a collection of vintage Sciolari Lighting chandeliers and pendants, floor lamps, table lamps and more.
1970s Sciolari Italy Production Set Two Vintage Space Desk Glass Lamps
By Sciolari Lighting
Located in Biella, IT
Sciolari Italy production set two vintage space age desk lamps years 70 glass optical structure material is brass and gold metal color with oxi...
Crystal, Brass
$2,445 / set
H 11.42 in W 5.52 in D 5.91 in
Vintage Italian Pair of Signed Brass Table Lamps by Sciolari, Italy, 1970s
By Sciolari Lighting
Located in Catania, CT
Very good vintage condition with normal trace of age and use for this set of two table lamps made from brass and glass and produced in Italy during the 70s. Glasses with no chips or ...
Brass
Italian Space Age Chrome Eyeball Desk Lamp by Targetti, 1970s
By Targetti Sankey
Located in San Benedetto Del Tronto, IT
This Italian Space Age desk lamp, produced by Targetti Sankey in the 1970s, features the iconic “eyeball” design with a fully adjustable spherical diffuser. Crafted in painted metal...
Metal
Set of Two Table Lamps, Italy, 1970s
Located in Milan, IT
Set of two Italian 1970s table lamps featuring lacquered base and curved plexiglass diffusers.
Metal
Vintage Space Age Table Lamp, Glass & Steel, Italy, 1970s
By Space Age Products
Located in Roma, IT
This vintage Space Age lamp is a beautiful decorative object realized in Italy during the 1970s. An elegant table lamp realized in glass and ...
Steel
Vintage Space Age Table Lamp 1970s Italy
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Elegant vintage mushroom-style table lamp featuring a sculptural brushed aluminum base with a wide frosted glass diffuser shade. The sleek space-age silhouette and minimalist form are characteristic of Mid-Century Modern / 1970s modernist lighting...
Metal
$512Sale Price|20% Off
H 18.12 in Dm 9.85 in
Elegant Vintage Brass and Encased Glass Lantern Table Lamp, Italy
Located in Bresso, Lombardy
Made in Italy, 1950. This lantern is made in brass, white encased glass and features a turned wood handle. It is a vintage piece, therefore it mig...
Brass
$2,072
H 15.36 in W 23.63 in D 7.88 in
Space Age Vintage White Table Lamp Desk Lamp Gianfranco Frattini, 1970s, Italy
By Gianfranco Frattini
Located in Vienna, AT
Space Age vintage white table lamp or desk lamp model Abele from white lacquered metal by Gianfranco Frattini for Luci Milan 1979. The table l...
Metal
A Rare 1970s Space Age B2 Table Lamp Designed by Gaetano Sciolari
By Sciolari Lighting, Gaetano Sciolari
Located in Aci Castello, IT
A Gaetano Sciolari B2 table lamp, it's made in Italy by Sciolari Rome in the 1970s, metal and blue round glass spheres are in good conditions, totally rewired electrical parts, it wo...
Chrome, Metal
Space age set of 2 table lamps, Italy 1970s
Located in Firenze, IT
Space age set of 2 table lamp Italy 1970s in the manner of Hans-Agne Jacobsson Chromed plated metal, brass plated H 22 × 20 cm diam. H 23 × 15 cm diam. Conditions: excellent co...
Metal
$1,141Sale Price|20% Off
H 11.82 in Dm 8.67 in
Red and White Opalescent Glass Cone Lamp by Giusto Toso for Leucos, Italy 1970s
By Leucos Design Lab, Giusto Toso
Located in Voorburg, NL
Very stylish red and white opalescent glass cone lamp designed by Giusto Toso for Leucos, Italy, 1970s. Born in Murano in 1939, Giusto Toso's lights are included in the collections o...
Aluminum
1970s Vintage Italian Brass Desk Lamp
Located in London, GB
A very stylish vintage Italian desk lamp in brass with a dark metal shade. This was recently imported from Italy, it dates from around the 1970’s. The quality is fantastic, with a v...
Brass
$1,397
H 13.78 in Dm 7.09 in
Space Age Vintage White Black Table Lamp Desk Lamp Targetti, 1970s, Italy
By Targetti Sankey
Located in Vienna, AT
Space Age vintage table lamp desk lamp by Targetti 1970s Italy. The desk lamp shows black flexible tube arm and white lacquered metal base and shade. On / off switch. One E 27 sock...
Metal