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Featured Pieces
‘L’Escargot Lamp’ in Coiled Black Leather with Natural Sea Snail Shade
Located in Brooklyn, NY
“Venus favors the bold. ” —Ovid
L’Escargot Lamp is the latest release from the Venus Collection, a whimsical family of handmade fixtures inspired by the ...
Category
2010s American Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Concrete, Brass
'Lavender Lion's Paw' Table Lamp in Nickel with Natural Scallop Shell Shade
By Tennant New York
Located in Brooklyn, NY
“Venus favors the bold.”
—Ovid
Introducing the Lavender Lion’s Paw Lamp, the first release from the Venus Collection, a whimsical new family of handmade fixtures inspired by the Surrealists and the natural forms of the sea. Employing the latest advances in cool-to-the-touch LED technology, the collection features floor and table lamps made with hand-selected specimen seashells in place of traditional shades, placing the organic source material behind so much 20th century modernism front and center.
Like its orange-hued sister lamp...
Category
2010s American Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Cement, Nickel
Adjustable 'Abalone Task Lamp' in Brass with Natural Abalone Seashell Shade
By Tennant New York
Located in Brooklyn, NY
“Venus favors the bold.” —Ovid
Introducing the Abalone Task Lamp, the fourth release from the Fall 2023 Venus Collection, a whimsical new family of handmade fixtures inspired by the Surrealists and the natural forms of the sea. Employing the latest advances in cool-to-the-touch LED technology, the collection features table lamps and wall sconces made with hand-selected vintage specimen seashells in place of traditional shades, putting the organic source material behind so much 20th century modernism front and center.
The sexily serpentine Model No. 021 is a double-jointed riff on that 20th century workaday staple—the humble desktop task lamp. At 16” tall, it’s slightly more petite than the Abalone Lawyer’s Lamp...
Category
2010s American Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Cement, Brass
'Abalone Siren's Sconce' with Real Vintage Abalone Seashell Shade
By Tennant New York
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Venus favors the bold." —Ovid
Introducing the Abalone Siren's Sconce, the fifth release from the Fall 2023 Venus Collection, a whimsical new family of handmade fixtures inspired by...
Category
2010s American Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Brass
Modernist 'Abalone Lawyer's Lamp' with Real Vintage Abalone Seashell Shade
By Tennant New York
Located in Brooklyn, NY
“Venus favors the bold.” —Ovid
Introducing the Abalone Lawyer’s Lamp, the third release from the Fall 2023 Venus Collection, a whimsical new family of ha...
Category
2010s American Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Cement, Brass
'Lion's Paw' Table Lamp in Brass and Terra Cotta with Real Scallop Shell Shade
By Tennant New York
Located in Brooklyn, NY
“Venus favors the bold.”
—Ovid
Introducing the Lion’s Paw Lamp, the first release from the Venus Collection, a whimsical new family of handmade fixtures inspired by the Surrealists and the natural forms of the sea. Employing the latest advances in cool-to-the-touch LED technology, the collection features floor and table lamps made with hand-selected specimen seashells...
Category
2010s American Table Lamps
Materials
Cement, Brass
'Horst' Tripod Lamp in 2-Tone Brass with Red-Banded Shade by Christopher Tennant
By Tennant New York
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The Horst adjustable brass tripod floor lamp collection was inspired by the life and times of globe-trotting early 20th century lensman Horst P. Horst, who introduced color photograp...
Category
2010s American Art Deco Floor Lamps
Materials
Brass
Chrome and Black Tripod Lamp with Hand-Painted Black Woven Grass Shade, In Stock
By Tennant New York
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The Horst Collection is inspired by the life and times of pioneering early 20th century lensman Horst P. Horst, who is credited with introducing color photography to a mass audience ...
Category
2010s American Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Brass, Chrome
'Aloha' Bamboo Table Lamp with Coconut Base and Japanese Parasol Shade, In Stock
By Tennant New York
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The One of One Collection is an ongoing series of single-edition floor and table lamps featuring shades made from particularly rare vintage paper parasols...
Category
2010s American Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Brass
Illuminated Natural History Art Diorama Nature Scene with Purple Heron, In Stock
By Tennant New York
Located in Brooklyn, NY
In Wetland, 2022, a majestic purple heron explores a local estuary in an illuminated update on the traditional Victorian diorama.
Original artwork by Christopher Tennant...
Category
2010s American Victorian Contemporary Art
Materials
Brass
Monumental LED Shadowbox Art Diorama with Taxidermy Horseshoe Crabs, In Stock
By Tennant New York
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Drones, 2022, is a techno-futuristic riff on the traditional Victorian shadowbox containing horseshoe crab carapaces collected by hand on a visit t...
Category
2010s American Modern Contemporary Art
Materials
Brass
Jumbo Horseshoe Crab Lamp with Antique Parasol Shade by Christopher Tennant
By Tennant New York
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The Vanderbilt Collection consists of two one-of-a-kind monumental floor lamps from Christopher Tennant's 2022 solo exhibition at the Vanderbilt Museum in Long Island, New York, inspired by the tastes and eccentricities of globetrotting amateur naturalist and Jazz-Age aesthete William "Willie the K" Vanderbilt.
Jumbo Crab Lamp...
Category
2010s American Art Deco Floor Lamps
Materials
Cement, Brass