Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
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 The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics.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.
Style: Modern
Color: Blue
Videre Licet, "Meltform No. 5", Light Sculpture, 2019
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Meltform No. 5 is an exploration of material, color, and light. The composition of this glass and metal sculptural lightbox is created by different colored glass melted and fused tog...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Brass
Model B3 Wall Light Sconce / Uplight / Downlight by René Jean Caillette
Located in London, GB
This lamp, originally designed as a floodlight before the invention of the spot light, gives a strong light that you can focus. It can project its light downward for reading and for ...
Category
20th Century French Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Brass
Melt Mini LED Surface Light by Tom Dixon
By Tom Dixon
Located in New York, NY
Melt is evocative of molten glass, the interior of a melting glacier or images of deep space. An imperfect, organic and naturalistic light that produces a mesmerizing hotblown glass ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary German Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Other
Melt LED Surface Light by Tom Dixon
By Tom Dixon
Located in New York, NY
With Melt, our experiments in the technologically advanced field of vacuum metallisation take on a new twist. Melt is a distorted lighting globe born from our collaboration with Swed...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary German Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Other
Edie Sconce by Lightmaker Studio
Located in Kingston, Ontario
Edie explores the relationship between two similar forms. An exaggerated top column plays against the sconce’s overall sense of quiet restraint.
While Edie evokes a certain feelin...
Category
2010s Canadian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Brass
Sculpted Blue Wall Lamp in Glazed Ceramic Medium Size Designed by Laura Gonzalez
Located in Paris, FR
Wall lamp in geometric relief made by the Jean Roger workshop in Paris. Available in green, yellow, blue and matt white colors and in two sizes.
Category
2010s French Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Ceramic
Gamma B Lamp by Mason Editions
Located in Geneve, CH
Gamma B lamp by Mason Editions.
Dimensions: 12 × 12 × 37 cm
Materials: aluminium and blown opal white glass
Colours: pink, burgundy, light grey, sage green, petrol green, black.
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Category
2010s Italian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Aluminum
Pair of Modernist 9-Disc Hand Blown Murano Turquoise & Translucent Glass Sconces
By Murano 5
Located in New York, NY
This beautiful pair of modernist 9-disc Vistosi sconces were made exclusively for high style deco by our atelier in Murano, Italy- the island off the coast of Venice, renowned for ce...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Chrome
Gamma a Lamp by Mason Editions
Located in Geneve, CH
Gamma A lamp by Mason Editions
Dimensions: 12 × 12 × 37 cm
Materials: aluminium and blown opal white glass
Colours: pink, burgundy, light grey, sage green, petrol green, black.
All our lamps can be wired according to each country.
Gamma is the third letter of the Greek alphabet and also the third brightest star in the constellation.
It’s in fact an alphabet of three aluminium elements, that creates a range of six modular suspensions. The frosted glass sphere contains the luminous soul which, combined in different ways with the metal elements, gives life to new solutions that look like constellations. Suspended led lighting fixture...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Aluminum
Corrugation Lights Light Blue Double Sconce by Theodora Alfredsdottir
Located in Geneve, CH
Corrugation lights single sconce by Theodora Alfredsdottir.
Collaboration with Tino Seubert.
Unique piece.
Materials: ash and aluminum.
Dimensions: D 25.5 x W 40 x H 20 cm.
Th...
Category
2010s English Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Aluminum
Blue Storm Wall Light Copper by Johannes Hemann
Located in Geneve, CH
Blue storm table light copper by Johannes Hemann
Material: polycarbonate, copper
Dimensions: Ø 43 cm
The Storm Series is by its concept the purest example of a process-design, w...
Category
2010s German Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Copper
Pair of Opaline Glass Cone and Brass Wall Sconces
Located in Saint-Ouen, IDF
Pair of wall sconces made of patinated brass and cone shaped opaline glass.
Category
2010s Italian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Brass
ARC Modern Asymmetric Wall Light in Blue & Brushed Brass Handcrafted
Located in London, GB
This beautiful brushed brass & blue wall light is from our debut British lighting range.
Our contemporary wall lights are perfect for bathing your hom...
Category
2010s British Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Copper
“Pagoda” Contemporary Wall Lamp, Blue China Satin Silk, Silvered Crystal
Located in Pietrasanta, IT
PAGODA The calm of resonating with your inner peace
For 20 years, we have been committed to offering you unique collections in terms of design and quality. Today we honor the handma...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Crystal, Brass
Modern Vintage Blue Balloon Flushmount Sconce Yves Christin Bilumen, Italy 1980s
Located in Vienna, AT
Modern vintage blue flushmount or sconce, which is colorful and nice.
Yves Christin designed the iconic lighting for Bilumen Italy in the 1980s.
The flus...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Plastic
Joy Wall Lamps Small by Draga&Aurel Resin, 21st Century
Located in Como, IT
Taking cues from the 1970s and the Space Age era, these unique luminous 'capsules' draw on rich, multi-layered epoxy resin and dimmable neon lighting to produce deep and lustrous hues. By skilfully layering harmonizing tones, they emit a gentle, seamless radiance when illuminated.
The colors of Draga&Aurel resins...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Resin
Murano Glass Wall Lamp Fish shaped Blue color hand carved Contemporary Italy
By Alberto Donà
Located in Villaverla, IT
Murano Glass Wall Lamp Fish shaped Blue color hand carved Contemporary Italy.
This lamp could either be used as a Table lamp or a sconce wall lamp.
This magnificent wall lamp is en...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Murano Glass, Blown Glass, Art Glass, Glass
Vistosi Wall Sconce in Multi-Color Glass
Located in Mogliano Veneto, Treviso
Sconce with metal wall mount and back. Halogen lighting.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Murano Glass
Jacco Maris Ode 1647 1 Wall Light Copper
By Jacco Maris
Located in Yonkers, NY
Being an homage to 17th century chandeliers, it serves as a lyrical reference to those graceful forms while placing itself squarely in the 21st...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Dutch Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Copper
Kartell Light Air Table Lamp in Crystal & Light Blue by Eugeni Quitllet
Located in Brooklyn, NY
An illusionist table lamp, a suspended light that eludes the laws of gravity. Light-air is essential, modern and rational, but at the same time it produces a magic effect. Its struct...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Plastic
Foscarini Bit 2 Wall Lamp in Blue by Ferruccio Laviani
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Wall lamp with reflected and diffused light. Wall fitting and wall rose in epoxy powder coated metal. Satin finish white or color painted glass diffuser, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Glass
Contemporary Blue Wall Sconce, Storm Light Copper by Johannes Hemann
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary blue wall sconce - storm light copper by Johannes Hemann
Material: polycarbonate, copper
Dimensions: Ø 43 cm
Material options: white, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary German Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Copper, Other
Jacco Maris Ode 1647 2 Wall Light Champagne
By Jacco Maris
Located in Yonkers, NY
Being an homage to 17th century chandeliers, it serves as a lyrical reference to those graceful forms while placing itself squarely in the 21st...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Dutch Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Copper
Lladro Belle de Nuit 2-Light Wall Sconce
By Lladro
Located in New York City, NY
Wall light with two lights and a handmade porcelain design. Beauty of the night. Such is the name of the plant whose petals reflect the moonlight, thus acquiring the magical property...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Porcelain
Green and Blue Aurora Resin LED Sconce by Richard Clarkson Studio
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Inspired by NASA satellite footage, this collection captures the feeling of witnessing, from space, an aurora dancing on the surface of the Earth. Each sconce consists of two flowing shapes of resin, matte-black aluminum reflectors, and LED lights that gently move to create a dynamic glow. Also available as a suspended pendant...
Category
2010s American Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Brass, Steel
Jacco Maris Ode 1647 1 Wall Light Black
By Jacco Maris
Located in Yonkers, NY
Being an homage to 17th century chandeliers, it serves as a lyrical reference to those graceful forms while placing itself squarely in the 21st...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Dutch Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Copper
Handmade Modern Lennox Tuxedo Blue Glass and Brass Sconce
Located in Montreal, CA
Inspired by the 70s avant-garde aesthetic, the Lennox sconce's hand-carved Battuto finish lends an elevated ambiance to its retro, oval silhouette. Whether as a sconce or a flush mount, the special glow of the Lennox glass...
Category
2010s Canadian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Brass
Videre Licet, "Meltform No. 3", Light Sculpture, 2019
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Meltform no. 3 is an exploration of material, color, and light. The composition of this glass and metal sculptural lightbox is created by different colored glass melted and fused tog...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Brass
Videre Licet, "Meltform No. 4", Light Sculpture, 2019
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Meltform No. 4 is an exploration of material, color, and light. The composition of this glass and metal sculptural lightbox is created by different colored glass melted and fused tog...
Category
2010s American Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Brass
“Two Be” Contemporary Wall Sconce, Art Silvered Blue Glass, Cast Melted Brass
Located in Pietrasanta, IT
Entirely made in Tuscany, Italy.
This object is a -always beautiful– piece to décor interiors from Classic to Contemporary style.
The heart of Two-Be and Two-Free, designed by Sabri...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Brass
Two Modern Murano Table Lamps by Ettore Sottsass for Venini, Signed ca. 1994
Located in Merida, Yucatan
Beautiful table lamp in white and blue swirl hand-blown Murano glass.
Designed by Ettore Sottsass for Venini and manufactured in 1994.
The glass shade is signed "Venini ".
Priced ...
Category
1990s Italian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Murano Glass
“Flame” Contemporary Wall Lamp Aqua Silvered art Glass, Brass, Crystal Drop
Located in Pietrasanta, IT
FLAME A leaf, a drop, a shield. Love first’s step
Nature’s beauty has always inspired Sabrina Landini creations - such as these exquisite earrings wall lamps that evoke leaves, flam...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Crystal, Brass
Pair of Stainless Steel Sconces Wall Lamps
Located in Miami, FL
Stainless steel sconces. Most likely custom-made, each sconce has one medium size ceramic socket.
Category
1980s American Vintage Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Stainless Steel
Contemporary 'Square' Sconce Iridescent Blue Crystal and Brass by Ghirò Studio
By Ghirò Studio
Located in Pieve Emanuele, Milano
2021 Collection of sconces by Ghirò Studio (Milan).
The applique is the perfect combination of functionality and aesthetic innovation. It gives at the same time balance and vivacity...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Brass
Spiral Sconce by Fabio Ltd
By Fabio Ltd.
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Italian wall light with clear Murano glasses handcut into four points using Quadriedri technique, mounted on chrome finish frame / Designed by Fabio Bergomi / Made in Italy
3 lights ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Chrome
Spiral Sconce by Fabio Ltd
By Fabio Ltd.
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Italian wall light with clear Murano glass hand blown into four points using Quadriedri technique, mounted on chrome metal finish / Designed by Fabio Bergomi, inspired by Venini / Ma...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Chrome
“Tiffany” Wall Bracket 23 Teal Silk, Antiqued Brass, Silvered Glass
Located in Pietrasanta, IT
TIFFANY the iconic lamp!
Tiffany, a timeless lamp, inspired by the international movie “Breakfast at Tiffany” and the talented character Audrey Hepburn, is a contemporary lamp, entir...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Brass
Wall Lamp "I Camini delle Fate" by Vittorio Livi, 2000
Located in Saint ouen, FR
Wall lamp "I Camini delle Fate" by Vittorio Livi "
Murano glass and metal
Fiam Edition - Circa 2000
With certificate.
Category
Early 2000s European Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Metal
Flavio Poli Pair of Applique Murano Glass Seguso, Italy
Located in Milan, Italy
A pair of applique designed by Flavio Poli for Seguso Murano, circa 1960, Italy.
Category
1660s Italian Antique Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Murano Glass
Venini Fragments Large Wall Light in Blue & Green by Fernando & Humberto Campana
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Fragments Applique Giant wall sconce, designed by Fernando & Humberto Campana and manufactured by Venini, is made of scraps and pieces of Venini glas...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Glass
Veca 3 Layer Blue Murano Glass Sconces
By VECA
Located in New York, NY
Pair of elliptical shaped Murano glass sconces composed from layers of blue and clear glass on chrome frame. Each sconce has one-light source, 60W Max. Rewired for use in the USA.
Category
20th Century Italian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Chrome
Italian Glass Spike Lamps
Located in Denton, TX
Pair of Conical shaped blue glass with metal base and cap, 1990s.
Category
20th Century Italian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Metal
Blue Ceramic and Glass Sconces
Located in Antwerp, BE
Beautiful pair of wall lamps.
Royal blue hand blown glass.
Italy, the 1970s.
Would go well in an eclectic or Hollywood Regency interior.
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Blown Glass
Contemporary Handmade Blue Ceramic Wall Lamp 'Néné'
By Superpoly
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Ceramic wall lamp by Superpoly.
In their ceramic works, the duo is influenced by the ceramics of Vallauris, forged after the golden age of touristic economy, which are currently s...
Category
2010s French Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Ceramic
SLAMP Medusa Wall Sconce in Blu Gel by Nigel Coates
By Slamp, Nigel Coates
Located in Pomezia, Rome
Medusa is a dramatic collection that marked SLAMP’s evolution of stylistic production just after the turn of the century. The radial structure easily connects to the central Cristalf...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Crystal
Modern wall lights and sconces for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Modern wall lights and sconces for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage wall lights and sconces created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include lighting, wall decorations, decorative objects and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with metal, glass and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Modern wall lights and sconces made in a specific country, there are Europe, Italy, and North America pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original wall lights and sconces, popular names associated with this style include Artemide, Vistosi, Tekna, and Sabrina Landini. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for wall lights and sconces differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $98 and tops out at $144,019 while the average work can sell for $1,553.
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