Modern Floor Lamps
The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw sweeping social change and major scientific advances — both of which contributed to a new aesthetic: modernism. Rejecting the rigidity of Victorian artistic conventions, modernists sought a new means of expression. References to the natural world and ornate classical embellishments gave way to the sleek simplicity of the Machine Age. Architect Philip Johnson characterized the hallmarks of modernism as “machine-like simplicity, smoothness or surface [and] avoidance of ornament.”
Early practitioners of modernist design include the De Stijl (“The Style”) group, founded in the Netherlands in 1917, and the Bauhaus School, founded two years later in Germany.
Followers of both groups produced sleek, spare designs — many of which became icons of daily life in the 20th century. The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics. While Bauhaus principals Marcel Breuer and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe created furniture from mass-produced, chrome-plated steel, American visionaries like Charles and Ray Eames worked in materials as novel as molded plywood and fiberglass. Today, Breuer’s Wassily chair, Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona chair — crafted with his romantic partner, designer Lilly Reich — and the Eames lounge chair are emblems of progressive design and vintage originals are prized cornerstones of collections.
It’s difficult to overstate the influence that modernism continues to wield over designers and architects — and equally difficult to overstate how revolutionary it was when it first appeared a century ago. But because modernist furniture designs are so simple, they can blend in seamlessly with just about any type of décor. Don’t overlook them.
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Aluminum, Gold
Early 2000s Italian Modern Floor Lamps
Metal
1670s Danish Antique Modern Floor Lamps
Iron
Late 20th Century Italian Modern Floor Lamps
Metal
1970s Dutch Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Sheet Metal
2010s Turkish Modern Floor Lamps
Marble, Metal, Brass
2010s Slovenian Modern Floor Lamps
Plexiglass
21st Century and Contemporary French Modern Floor Lamps
Zinc
20th Century American Modern Floor Lamps
Bronze
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Floor Lamps
Metal
1940s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Brass
1980s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Metal
2010s Italian Modern Floor Lamps
Metal
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Steel
1980s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Brass, Iron
2010s French Modern Floor Lamps
Ceramic
2010s Italian Modern Floor Lamps
Metal
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Brass
1940s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Brass
1960s American Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Brass, Chrome
2010s Indian Modern Floor Lamps
Brass
2010s Ukrainian Modern Floor Lamps
Onyx
1960s American Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Brass
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Metal
2010s Ukrainian Modern Floor Lamps
Aluminum
1980s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Metal
1960s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Metal, Aluminum
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Floor Lamps
Plastic
1970s German Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Metal, Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Floor Lamps
Marble, Brass, Stainless Steel
2010s American Modern Floor Lamps
Brass, Bronze
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Floor Lamps
Marble, Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Floor Lamps
Aluminum
Late 20th Century Italian Modern Floor Lamps
Steel
1980s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary North American Modern Floor Lamps
Marble
1980s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Metal
2010s French Modern Floor Lamps
Ceramic
2010s British Modern Floor Lamps
Nylon
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Marble, Steel
1960s Austrian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Iron
1980s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Marble, Metal, Brass
21st Century and Contemporary German Modern Floor Lamps
Metal
1990s Italian Modern Floor Lamps
Metal
2010s Indian Modern Floor Lamps
Aluminum
Late 20th Century American Modern Floor Lamps
Composition, Metal
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Metal, Steel
Early 2000s American Modern Floor Lamps
Chrome
Early 20th Century English Modern Floor Lamps
Aluminum, Steel
1960s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Glass, Murano Glass
2010s Taiwanese Modern Floor Lamps
Steel
2010s Taiwanese Modern Floor Lamps
Steel
Late 20th Century German Modern Floor Lamps
Brass
2010s American Modern Floor Lamps
Linen, Oak
Late 20th Century Italian Modern Floor Lamps
Metal
2010s Belgian Modern Floor Lamps
Steel
2010s French Modern Floor Lamps
Plaster
1960s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Metal