Modernist 1930s Floor Lamp

The French designer Jean-Boris Lacroix was best known in the 1930s, as he is today, as a designer of lighting fixtures. Our lamp consists of a circle, a sphere, and a cylinder that t...

A translucent alabaster lamp of the same model was featured in the July 1938 issue of Domus magazine, which was established and edited by Gio Ponti. They were made in the Volterra wo...

Designed around 1930, each monumental standing lamp of brass and acid-etched glass is marked Perzel on the base by the switch. A chrome version was published in the French design ma...

This 1930s Italian bench is so over-scaled, and monumental in appearance, that it seems to have been made for the large room it was destined, rather than the comfort of a typical sitter. As such, it would function equally well as a low side table or a high cocktail table. We’ll allow the buyer to determine its use. The designer was Pierluigi Colli, and the fabricator Martinotti, the Turin furniture and interior decorating firm that was established in 1831, and exhibited at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition and the 1904 St Louis World’s Fair. Colli’s family owned a textile company that supplied Martinotti with upholstery fabrics, suggesting nepotism had something to do with his being hired as the firm's director in 1926. Nevertheless, he proved himself worthy as a designer and a businessman. Having studied in Paris at the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs, he befriended leading French designers, and arranged for Martinotti to retail Lalique glass and Jean Perzel lighting. In addition, the quality of their work, and Colli’s dedication to the modern design movement, prompted Carlo Mollino, Gio Ponti, and Gino Levi-Montalcini, among others, to have Martinotti fabricate some of their furniture. Colli’s claim to fame, however, is his own work as a designer, and his ability to master the vocabularies of every trend from Art Deco to midcentury modern. During the Great Depression, when nearly every nation floundered economically, fascist Italy...

This late 1930s Venini chandelier has two rings of curved-glass elements suspended from a brass frame. It appears to glow magically from within because the glass elements are infuse...

This English 1930s mirror-framed dressing table mirror could also serve as a frame for a photograph. On the cresting are three acid-etched plumes...

This Modernist floor lamp is believed to be designed by Robert Slezak (sometimes the design is also attributed to the Czech Modernist architect Ladislav Zak...

Lovely hand forged floor lamp manufactured in Sweden, 1930s. This type of lamp is commonly seen in old interiors with Axel Einar Hjort's cabin furniture. The lamp consists of a black...

This Modernist floor lamp was designed and produced by The NAPAKO Company in the 1930s Czechoslovakia. The piece represents perfectly the Modernist approach to furniture design. ...

This elegantly designed floor lamp from the 1930s is a true work of art of its time. Crafted from polished brass, it adds a timeless elegance to whatever room it is placed in. With...

1930s Royalchrome deco floor lamp.

A unique 1930s Italian floor lamp in brass decorated with extensive bronze details.