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 The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics.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.
1950s Swedish Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Brass
1960s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Metal
Mid-20th Century Modern Floor Lamps
Metal
1950s American Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Metal
1960s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Marble, Metal
1960s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Metal
1950s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Brass
1950s French Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Metal
1960s Danish Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Plastic, Oak
1940s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Brass
1960s Danish Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Plastic, Oak
1960s American Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Brass
1960s American Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Brass, Chrome
1940s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Brass
1960s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Metal, Aluminum
Mid-20th Century American Modern Floor Lamps
Chrome, Metal
1960s Austrian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Iron
1960s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Glass, Murano Glass
1960s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Metal
1960s American Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Aluminum
1940s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Marble, Brass
Mid-20th Century Modern Floor Lamps
Marble, Brass
1960s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Metal, Steel, Chrome
1950s Danish Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Plastic, Oak
1960s French Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Brass, Iron
1960s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Metal
1960s French Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Chrome
1960s North American Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Chrome
Mid-20th Century Unknown Modern Floor Lamps
Brass
1950s Danish Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Steel
Mid-20th Century Italian Modern Floor Lamps
Metal
1950s French Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Iron
1950s Danish Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Oak, Plastic
1960s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Metal
1940s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Brass
1950s Danish Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Brass
1940s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Brass
Mid-20th Century American Modern Floor Lamps
Iron
1960s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Iron
1940s Swedish Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Brass
A brass and resin floor lamp, designed and produced in Italy, c. 1940s.
Overall Dimensions: 73" H x 23" Diame...
1940s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Brass
Mid-20th Century Unknown Modern Floor Lamps
Brass, Iron
1940s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Brass
1960s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Metal
1940s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Brass
1940s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Brass
1940s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Travertine, Brass, Copper
1930s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Brass
1930s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Brass
1950s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Marble, Metal, Aluminum
1960s Italian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Metal
1960s Austrian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Crystal, Brass
1960s American Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Slate, Chrome
1950s Danish Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Brass
Mid-20th Century North American Modern Floor Lamps
Rattan
Mid-20th Century Modern Floor Lamps
Brass
Mid-20th Century American Modern Floor Lamps
Brass
1960s Norwegian Vintage Modern Floor Lamps
Chrome, Aluminum, Enamel, Steel