Floor Lamps
1940s Chinese Vintage Floor Lamps
Early 1900s Antique Floor Lamps
Iron
Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Floor Lamps
Brass, Bronze
Early 1900s American Empire Revival Antique Floor Lamps
Bronze
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Floor Lamps
Brass
1940s Czech Mid-Century Modern Vintage Floor Lamps
Wood, Oak, Paper
1940s French Vintage Floor Lamps
Bronze
1940s Italian Art Deco Vintage Floor Lamps
Metal, Brass
1940s French Neoclassical Vintage Floor Lamps
Bronze
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Floor Lamps
Marble, Brass
1940s Turkish Vintage Floor Lamps
Bronze
Early 1900s French Louis XVI Antique Floor Lamps
Marble, Bronze
1940s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Floor Lamps
Metal, Aluminum, Iron
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Floor Lamps
Oak
1940s Spanish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Floor Lamps
Raffia, Walnut
1940s Vintage Floor Lamps
Metal
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Floor Lamps
Ceramic, Fabric
Early 1900s English Antique Floor Lamps
Wrought Iron
1940s Italian Vintage Floor Lamps
Brass
1940s Finnish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Floor Lamps
Metal, Brass
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Floor Lamps
Brass
1940s French Vintage Floor Lamps
Oak
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Floor Lamps
Brass
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Floor Lamps
Brass
1940s French Vintage Floor Lamps
Oak
1940s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Floor Lamps
Wrought Iron
1940s Swedish Art Deco Vintage Floor Lamps
Birch
1940s Vintage Floor Lamps
Leather
1940s Czech Art Deco Vintage Floor Lamps
Brass, Steel
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Floor Lamps
Wood
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Floor Lamps
Bronze
1940s Finnish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Floor Lamps
Brass
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Floor Lamps
Brass
1940s French Gothic Vintage Floor Lamps
Wrought Iron
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Floor Lamps
Brass
Early 1900s French Neoclassical Antique Floor Lamps
Brass, Metal
1940s American Machine Age Vintage Floor Lamps
Iron, Aluminum
1940s Vintage Floor Lamps
Wood
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Floor Lamps
Metal, Brass
1940s Finnish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Floor Lamps
Brass
1940s French Vintage Floor Lamps
Aluminum, Enamel, Iron
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Floor Lamps
Metal
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Floor Lamps
Aluminum, Brass
Early 1900s English Art Nouveau Antique Floor Lamps
Brass
1940s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Floor Lamps
Brass, Wrought Iron
1940s American Vintage Floor Lamps
Aluminum, Steel
1940s Finnish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Floor Lamps
Brass
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Floor Lamps
Brass
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Floor Lamps
Plaster
1940s Swedish Organic Modern Vintage Floor Lamps
Brass
1940s Italian Vintage Floor Lamps
Bronze
1940s Argentine Mid-Century Modern Vintage Floor Lamps
Bronze, Iron
1940s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Floor Lamps
Brass
1940s Vintage Floor Lamps
Metal
1940s European Louis XVI Vintage Floor Lamps
Mahogany
1940s Swedish Vintage Floor Lamps
Brass
1940s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Floor Lamps
Aluminum, Iron
1940s Italian Vintage Floor Lamps
Nickel
Antique, New and Vintage Floor Lamps
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.