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 The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics.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.
2010s Italian Modern Floor Lamps
Marble
2010s British Modern Floor Lamps
Brass
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Resin, Fiberglass
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Crystal, Steel
1980s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Metal
1980s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Aluminum
1960s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Metal
2010s Italian Modern Floor Lamps
Alabaster, Marble, Metal, Other
2010s Italian Modern Floor Lamps
Alabaster, Marble, Metal, Other
2010s Italian Modern Floor Lamps
Alabaster, Marble, Other, Copper
1970s Danish Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Metal
20th Century French Modern Floor Lamps
Brass
2010s Italian Modern Floor Lamps
Marble, Alabaster, Metal, Other
2010s Italian Modern Floor Lamps
Alabaster, Marble, Metal, Other
2010s Italian Modern Floor Lamps
Marble, Alabaster, Metal, Other
2010s Italian Modern Floor Lamps
Alabaster, Marble, Bronze, Other
2010s Italian Modern Floor Lamps
Alabaster, Marble, Other, Brass
2010s Italian Modern Floor Lamps
Alabaster, Marble, Other, Metal
2010s Italian Modern Floor Lamps
Alabaster, Marble, Metal, Other
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Marble, Metal
1990s Italian Modern Floor Lamps
Brass, Bronze, Chrome
1980s American Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Brass
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Chrome
1960s French Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Chrome
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Murano Glass
1980s American Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Brass
1980s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Metal
2010s Spanish Modern Floor Lamps
Aluminum, Brass
Early 20th Century Modern Floor Lamps
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Floor Lamps
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Floor Lamps
Metal
2010s Spanish Modern Floor Lamps
Aluminum, Brass
2010s Belgian Modern Floor Lamps
Steel
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Metal
1970s French Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Bronze, Metal, Brass
1980s Dutch Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Ceramic, Acrylic
2010s French Modern Floor Lamps
Alabaster
2010s Italian Modern Floor Lamps
Alabaster, Copper
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Floor Lamps
Aluminum
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Floor Lamps
Crystal, Brass
2010s Italian Modern Floor Lamps
Alabaster, Metal
2010s Italian Modern Floor Lamps
Alabaster, Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Floor Lamps
Brass
2010s Italian Modern Floor Lamps
Alabaster, Metal
2010s Italian Modern Floor Lamps
Alabaster, Metal
2010s Italian Modern Floor Lamps
Alabaster, Brass
2010s Italian Modern Floor Lamps
Alabaster, Bronze
Late 20th Century Italian Modern Floor Lamps
Aluminum, Metal
2010s Italian Modern Floor Lamps
Alabaster, Metal
21st Century and Contemporary European Modern Floor Lamps
Ceramic, Leather, Textile, Cotton
2010s French Modern Floor Lamps
Alabaster
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Floor Lamps
Onyx, Carrara Marble
2010s Italian Modern Floor Lamps
Alabaster, Copper
2010s Italian Modern Floor Lamps
Alabaster, Metal
2010s Italian Modern Floor Lamps
Alabaster, Bronze
2010s Spanish Modern Floor Lamps
Aluminum, Stainless Steel
1980s American Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Metal
2010s Italian Modern Floor Lamps
Alabaster, Brass