Modern Floor Lamps
MODERN STYLE
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 The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics.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.
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Style: Modern
Period: 1960s
Italian Modernist Floor Lamp , 1960's
Located in New York, NY
Italian Modernist floor lamp.
Red plastic shade merged with metal decorative elements and interior frosted glass globe.
Supported by patinated metal shaft resting on a marble base.
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Marble, Metal
Floor lamp, mod.440, Lights
By Luci Milano
Located in Milano, Lombardia
With a sleek, modern design, this lamp combines sinuous shapes and high-quality materials to create unparalleled atmospheric lighting. Its slender metal frame blends harmoniously wit...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Metal
Danish Modern oak wood floor lamp by Lisbeth Brams, 1960s, Denmark
Located in Værløse, DK
Oak wood floor lamp designed by Lisbeth Brams for Brdr. Krüger in the 1960s with a shade by Le Klint. A modern piece by the Danish designer and example of her extraordinary ability t...
Category
1960s Danish Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Plastic, Oak
Mid Century Brass and Chrome Table Lamp
Located in Pasadena, CA
Mid Century Brass and Chrome table lamp. Sections are - 54 high x 18.25diameter
Category
1960s American Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Brass, Chrome
Danish Modern oak wood floor lamp by Lisbeth Brams, 1960s, Denmark
Located in Værløse, DK
Oak wood floor lamp designed by Lisbeth Brams for Brdr. Krüger in the 1960s with a shade by Le Klint. A modern piece by the Danish designer and example of her extraordinary ability t...
Category
1960s Danish Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Plastic, Oak
Single Modernist Floor Lamp Table Attributed to Paul McCobb , 1960's
Located in New York, NY
Single Modernist floor lamp table attributed to Paul McCobb.
Patinated brass with a decorative tripod shaped base and a glass table top.
Category
1960s American Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Brass
Gino Sarfatti - Floor Lamp mod. 1055
Located in Milano, IT
Adjustable floor lamp designed by Gino Sarfatti for Arteluce, model 1055, Italy circa 1960.
Very good condition. Cable Not original.
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Metal, Aluminum
Lampada in vetro - Selenova - Carlo Nason - made in Italy
By Carlo Nason, Selenova
Located in Milano, IT
Unica e rara lampada disegnata da Carlo Nason per Selenova, azienda italiana degli anni 60/70 famosa per le sue illuminazioni e per le sue collaborazioni con importanti designer..
L...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Glass, Murano Glass
Mid-Century Austrian Wicker Floor Lamp " Renee " by J.T. Kalmar
By J.T. Kalmar
Located in Vienna, Austria
A rare Austrian mid-century floor lamp from J.T. Kalmar, manufactured around 1960.
It features a tripod iron base at the bottom and a iron ring at the top.
The original woven wicker...
Category
1960s Austrian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Iron
Vintage Italian Floor Lamp in Chromed Metal and Glass with Three Faded Shades
Located in Milano, IT
Design doesn't need a name to be good. There is plenty of objects out there - chairs, lamps, tables... - that are "anonymous" but look like they were created by one of the greatest d...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Metal
Laurel Lamp Co. Walnut & Black Enamel Side Table, Floor Lamp, circa 1970
Located in Bainbridge, NY
Laurel Lamp Company Walnut and Black Enamel side table floor lamp.
Featuring a sturdy, balanced framework, tapered Walnut stem, circular solid 17D Walnut table surface, atop a flared...
Category
1960s American Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Aluminum
Maison Arluce, floor lamp, iron and painted, circa 1960, France.
Located in Nice, Cote d' Azur
Maison Arluce,
floor lamp,
Néo-classical floor lamp in imitation of an oil lamp,
brass and iron painted,
circa 1960, France.
Height 153 cm, diameter 54 cm.
Category
1960s French Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Brass, Iron
Italian Mid-Century Lamperti Floor Lamp, Sculpted in Chrome, 1960s
By Lamperti
Located in Milan, IT
Italian Mid-Century Lamperti floor lamp, sculpted in chrome, 1960s.
The chromed monolithic structure of this floor lamp is built out of a continuous metal sheet column, with series ...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Metal, Steel, Chrome
Large Original EARLY Lamp (2049 RE) by Bobo PICCOLI, FONTANA ARTE 1968
By Bobo Piccoli
Located in Berlin, Berlin
An original early lamp known as 'RE' consisted of three separate matt opalescent glass pieces, the original switch allows for different light modes. Black metal base, FONTANA ARTE em...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Metal
MCM - OMI Chrome and Marble Adjustable Floor Lamp Koch & Lowy
By Koch & Lowy
Located in Toledo, OH
Vintage chrome can adjustable shade single socket floor lamp by Koch & Lowy. Square Carrara marble base circa 1960s. Lamp is 50" tall, base is 4.5" x 4".
Category
1960s North American Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Chrome
Hydra Floor Lamp by Pierre Folie for Jacques Charpentier, France, 1970s
Located in Antwerp, BE
Pierre Folie; Modernist; Jacques Charpentier; France; 1970s; Hydra Lamp; Floor Lamp;
Hydra chrome floor lamp by Pierre Folie, a timeless design originally...
Category
1960s French Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Chrome
Achille Castiglioni & Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Toio, Floor Lamp, Flos, 1960s
Located in Paris, FR
Achille Castiglioni (1918-2002) & Pier Giacomo Castiglioni (1913-1968)
Toio
A lacquered metal floor lamp.
The half spherical bulb vertically supported with an hexagon shaped, nickel-plated brass stem on white enamel steel base supporting a green lacquered transformer.
Flos sticker under the base.
Produced by Flos, Italy.
1962.
Literature
Domus n°400, March 1963, p.49
Abitare n°14, March 1963, p.42
Ottagono n°30, September 1973, p.153
Giuliana Gramigna, Repertorio 1950/1980, Arnaldo Mondadori Editore, Milano, 1985, p.188
Sergio Polano, Achille Castiglioni, Pall Mall, 2012, p.192-193.
Futurissimo, L’utopie du design italien...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Metal
"Fantasma" Floor Lamp by Tobia Scarpa for Flos, Italy, 2005
Located in Sacile, PN
Fantasma grande for Flos 2005
The Fantasma floor lamp was designed by Tobia Scarpa for Flos in 1961. Its striking silhouette illuminates with a diffused light that illuminates wit...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Metal
Italian Designer, Floor Lamp, Iron, Fabric, Italy, 1960s
Located in High Point, NC
A black-painted iron and white fabric floor lamp, designed and produced in Italy, c. 1960s.
Overall Dimensions (inches): 66" H x 16" Diameter
Bulb Specifications: E-26 Bulb
Number o...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Iron
Coupe Floor Lamp Designed by Joe Colombo, Italy, 1967
By Oluce, Joe Colombo
Located in Hamburg, PA
A designer Mid-Century Modern Coupe Floor Lamp designed by Joe Colombo for Oluce, 1967 Italy. This adjustable iconic floor lamp is made of lacquered metal. It would look great in any...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Metal
Sculptural Modernist Floor Lamp
Located in New York, NY
Unusual sculptural Modernist floor lamp.
Patinated brass with an illuminated piece of rough cut glass
mounted in the center. Glass has blue hue when illuminated.
Category
1960s Austrian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Crystal, Brass
Laurel Lamp Co. Chrome & Dark Gray Slate Side Table, Floor Lamp, c. 1970
Located in Bainbridge, NY
Laurel Lamp Company chrome floor lamp table with black slate side table.
Featuring a chrome plated tubular stem a top a balanced flared (10 x 10) chrome plated cast aluminum base wit...
Category
1960s American Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Slate, Chrome
Luxo Floor Lamp Designed by Jac Jacobsen
Located in Montréal, QC
Luxo floor lamp designed by Jac Jacobsen. 60 watts E-26 Edison medium base incandescent bulb recommended or higher if LED/CFL.
Verifired E-26 Ediso...
Category
1960s Norwegian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Chrome, Aluminum, Enamel, Steel
Vintage Red floor Lamp Production Lampfer Italy 1960
Located in Biella, IT
Lampfer Italy metal lamp production and plexiglass lampshade design '60s,
height 70 inches, perfect condition.
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Metal, Aluminum
Ton A. C. Alberts RAAK Zodiac Lamp, Dutch Modernism, 1966
By RAAK
Located in Antwerp, BE
Ton A. C. Alberts; RAAK; Zodiac; Floor Lamp; 1966; The Netherlands; Dutch Design; Modernist; Modernism; Floor Lamp; Lighting; Metal; Wood; Holland;
Ton A. C. Alberts RAAK Zodiac lamp...
Category
1960s Dutch Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Aluminum
Tall Maison Jansen Palm Tree Floor Lamp
Located in London, GB
A very tall and rarer model of the Jansen Palm tree. The bamboo stem as opposed to the brass. A large and wide brass palm tree canopy with the bamboo stem ...
Category
1960s French Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Brass
Brutalist Lamp circa 1970
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A 1970 lamp in iron and glass.
Category
1960s French Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Metal, Berlin Iron
Vintage Venini Murano Table Lamp
By Murano 5
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
This tall hand blown white glass Venini Murano lamp is mounted on a round base of Italian marble, all fittings are brass. Marble base is 8" diameter...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Carrara Marble
French Mason Jansen Style Adjustable Tripod Floor Lamp '2 available'
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
8-149a French nickel and brass adjustable tripod base floor lamp
Needs Rewiring
Take 2 60 watt bulbs
Shade not included.
Category
1960s French Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Brass
Poliarte Standing Light
By Albano Poli, Poliarte
Located in New York, NY
A standing Poliarte lamp. Different versions of this light existed: table lamps, chandeliers and sconces were made. The standing lamp model came in only this size and is very rare to...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Glass
Italian Modernist Two Light Floor Lamp
Located in New York, NY
Italian modernist floor lamp.
Patinated brass, marble base, red and black enameled shades.
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Marble, Metal, Brass
Metal Floor Lamp by Sergio Asti, 1968
Located in Berlin, DE
This impressive floor lamp is made of black enameled metal, it's reflector has three convexities and is made of white, translucid acrylic.
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'Sergio Asti (born 1926) is an Italian...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Metal
Tall floor lamp, white and blue metal, by Bruno Gatta, 1960
By Bruno Gatta, Stilnovo
Located in Berlin, DE
Eccentric floor lamp by Bruno Gatta, made of metal, lacquered in blue and white, blue reflector and white round opaline glass. Labeled Stilnovo.
Two pieces available, price is for one.
Bruno Gatta (1904) was born in to a family of Industrial designers, and founded Stilnovo s.l.r. together with his brother Paolo in 1949. The company significantly defined the Italian light design...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Metal
Floor Lamp from the 1960s in Wrought Iron and Leather
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Floor lamp from the 1960s in wrought iron and leather, the bottom formed as a horse shoe.
Category
1960s French Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Iron
Willy Rizzo Italian Floor Lamp with Brass and Tortoise Shell Enamel, 1960
By Willy Rizzo
Located in Chicago, IL
Willy Rizzo for Lumica Italian floor lamp with brass and tortoiseshell enamel, circa 1960.
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Brass
Italian Art Glass Floor Lamp
Located in New York, NY
An Italian art glass segmented floor lamp.
Art glass, patinated brass, marble base.
Measures: H 69½, base D 14 shade, D 20 inches.
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Marble, Brass
Modernist Display Easel with Light
Located in New York, NY
A modernist stylized bamboo easel with a light.
Nickeled metal.
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Metal, Nickel
Brass and Walnut Floor Lamp
Located in Houston, TX
A handsome vintage brass columnar floor lamp sitting on a square walnut base with a gold lined black paper shade.
Lamp dimensions: 68” H x 12.75” W x 12.75” D
Shade dimensions: 1...
Category
1960s Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Brass
Floor Lamp, Anonymous, Sweden, 1960s
Located in Stockholm, SE
Floor lamp, anonymous,
Sweden. 1960's.
Glass
Measurements:
H: 90 cm/ 2' 11 1/2"
Category
1960s Swedish Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Glass
Floor Lamp
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Floor lamp in wood and brass in wood and brass style of Adnet.
Category
1960s French Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Wood
Pair of French Modern Brass Floor Lamps by Jacques Quinet
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Pair of French modern brass floor lamps by Jacques Quinet
literature, Jacques Quinet, G. Maldonado, similar examples illustrated.
Category
1960s French Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Brass
White Enamel Pierced Triangular Lamp with Three White Glass Shades, 1960s
Located in Bainbridge, NY
Minimalist, geometric, perforated White enamel Floor Lamp or Table Lamp, 1960s. Featuring a versatile and architectural white enameled metal triangular form with geometric perforatio...
Category
1960s American Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Metal
Modern White Acrylic Table or Floor Lamp, circa 1960s
Located in New York, NY
A tall Modern white acrylic or Lucite style and white lacquered wood table or low floor lamp, with a white wood 'ball' on/off switch a center base area, circa mid-20th century, 1960s...
Category
1960s Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Wood, Lucite, Acrylic
Larger Pair Robert Sonneman Chrome "Orbiter" Floor Lamps, Circa 1970
Located in Bainbridge, NY
Classic pair of Robert Sonneman Articulating Chrome Orbiter Floor Lamps. Featuring Chrome-Plated Steel arches, adjustable swing arms, Black metal handles and Black rimmed Chrome Glob...
Category
1960s American Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Stainless Steel, Chrome
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