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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 The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics.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 chaircrafted 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
Creator: Fontana Arte
Set of 3 Appliques Parola by Piero Castiglioni and Gae Aulenti for Fontana Arte
Located in Milano, Lombardia
The Set of 3 Appliques Parola, a collaborative masterpiece by Piero Castiglioni and Gae Aulenti for Fontana Arte, epitomizes the pinnacle of mid-century Italian lighting design. Craf...
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Late 20th Century Italian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces

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Metal

Claesson Koivisto Rune Fontana Arte Io Wall Lamp in Aluminium, Designed in 2015
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Shaped like a small curved lunar disc, Io is a wall lamp designed for Led light sources. Thanks to its dual-axis rotation frame, it has the distinguishing feature rotating on both lo...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces

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Aluminum

Fontana Arte "Optunia" Cast Glass Table Lamp by Claesson Koivisto Rune
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Optunia" is a wall lamp, designed by Claesson Koivisto Rune and manufactured by FontanaArte, featuring a structure in cast aluminum, available with paints in white, onyx or glossy black nickel-plated colors. The price of this lamp reflects the white finish. Please inquire for pricing on additional colors. Molded cast glass, frosted and painted from behind, working as a diffuser. Base in painted metal. Power source housed in the base for the wall and ceiling versions, in the breadboard for the hanging version or onto a peg in the table version. It can be provided with a dimmer and lighting sources are 2 x 11W LED (3000K, CRI>80, Lumen 1384 + 1384). Dimensions: Ø 5.1" (discs), D. 9.8", H. 10.3" "Optunia" is a collection of lighting elements available in four variants for tabletop (with or without stem), floor, wall and ceiling. Its functionality lies in the possibility of rotating the two discs that make up the nearly 360 degrees head, opening up an extraordinary number of lighting combinations. The lower disc rotates on one axis, while the upper disk simultaneously rotates on a second axis, perpendicular to the first. This double movement gives "Optunia" the advantages of both direct and indirect light emission, exploiting the surface of the wall or ceiling to produce a soft light. Complementing its functionality, the design of such lamp is reminiscent of a form found in nature: the two disks resemble the pads of the prickly pear called "Opuntia ficus-indica", from which the lamp takes its name. A collection of exceptional technical sophistication, whose form is further emphasized by its colors: opaque white, bold and clean, dark mirrored chrome, recalling the preciousness of metal, a darker shade resembling onyx and quartz color, shifting from dark brown to black. Claesson Koivisto Rune is a Swedish architectural partnership, founded in Stockholm in 1995 by Marten Claesson, Eero Koivisto and Ola Rune. It started as an architectural firm, but has since become an internationally acclaimed and multi-disciplinary office with an equal emphasis on both architecture and design. They were the first Swedish office exhibiting in the international section at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2004, they are also responsible for award-wining projects such as the Tind Prefab house collection for Fiskarhedenvillan, Widlund House private villa on Öland, Örsta Gallery building in Kumla, Sfera Building culture house in Kyoto and Nobis Hotel in Stockholm. They design for well known international companies such as Arflex, Asplund, Blueair, Boffi, Capdell, Cappellini, Casamania, David design, Discipline, Dune NY...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces

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Metal, Aluminum

"Galerie" Wall Lamp Designed by Federico Peri for FontanaArte
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Galerie" is a wall lamp, designed by Federico Peri and manufactured by FontanaArte, made in glass, metal and marble and is part of a collection including also two floor lamps. It ca...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces

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Marble, Steel

Fontana Arte Milk Glass Wall Sconces
Located in Montréal, QC
Fontana Arte milk glass wall sconces. 40 watts E-26 Edison medium base incandescent bulb recommended or higher if LED/CFL. Verified E-26 Edison medium base socket. Hard wire.
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Late 20th Century Italian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces

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Art Glass

"Ananas" Wall Lamp Designed by Vico Magistretti for FontanaArte
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Ananas" is a wall lamp, designed by Vico Magistretti and manufactured by FontanaArte, with a nickel plated metal frame, a diffuser available in amber or white laminated glass and a tempered and sandblasted glass bottom cover. Its lighting source is 1 x 80W (HA) Eco Saver R7s/80. DIMENSIONS: D. 5.1", W. 10.2", H. 5.1" Wall lamp with timeless design, "Ananas" produces diffused, indirect up or down lighting, depending on how it's installed. VICO MAGISTRETTI graduated in 1945 from Milan Polytechnic, where his lecturers included Gio' Ponti and Piero Portaluppi, and immediately started to work in his father's studio. He mainly worked for interior design. Soon he became a leading figure in the Milan due to the growing industry of design, developing an extremely expressive and unmistakable language. At the end of the 1940s he took part in various editions of the Triennale in Milan and in 1956 he was one of the founding members of the ADI, the Italian Industrial Design Association. He has worked with important companies and his projects are part of permanent collections in the world’s most important museums. From 1998 to 2003, for Fontana Arte he designed Ananas and Bruco wall lamps, Margaret lamp with supporting bag and Morocco hanging lamp...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces

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Nickel, Metal

"Vitro" Outdoor Lamp Designed by Emmanuel Babled for FontanaArte
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Vitro" is an outdoor wall and ceiling lamp, designed by Emmanuel Babled and manufactured by FontanaArte, with a body in opaque plastic polymer and a diffuser in opaline or transpare...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces

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Plastic

Fontana Arte "Nobi" LED Wall Lamp Sconce with Glass Diffuser, Metis Lighting
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Nobi" is a wall lamp sconce, designed by Metis Lighting and manufactured by Fontana Arte, featuring a frame in chromed or satin nickel metal, an adjustable diffuser in frosted glass...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces

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Aluminum, Chrome, Nickel, Metal

"Sillabone" Wall and Ceiling Lamp Designed by Piero Castiglioni for FontanaArte
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Sillabone" is a wall and ceiling lamp, designed by Piero Castiglioni and manufactured by FontanaArte, with a metal frame and a heat-resistant sandblasted glass diffuser. "Sillabone"...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces

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Metal

"Slot" Wall and Ceiling Lamp Designed by David Chipperfield for FontanaArte
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Slot" is an architectural wall and ceiling lighting system, designed by David Chipperfield and manufactured by FontanaArte, featuring a series of recessed wall or ceiling lamps for indirect light emission, a matte white epoxy powder coated metal frame housing fluorescent dimmable bulbs. A cover, held in place by neodymium magnets, makes the fixture easy to assemble and maintain. Slot fits a dimmable electronic power supply (1-10V) and can be mounted with or without its housing (required for plasterboard false ceilings). DIMENSIONS: D. 3.74", W. 3.74", H. 59.45" For correct installation the lamp includes a 0.15"-slit on all 4 sides. Its lighting source is one × 35W (FL) G5 FH or one × 49W (FL) G5 FQ or one × 80W (FL) G5 FQ. The minimal design creates a lighting effect similar to a spotlight beam on a wall. This makes "Slot" especially suitable for private and public spaces that require non-invasive yet decorative lighting effects. A series of recessed lamps for walls or ceilings that gives indirect light. The structure is in matt white epoxy powder coated metal and houses one or more dimmable fluorescent lamps. Its essential design creates a luminous effect similar to a blade of light...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces

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Metal

Four "Nobi" Wall Lamps by Metis Lighting for Fontana Arte, 1992
Located in Sacile, PN
Four "NOBI" wall lamps by Metis Lighting for Fontana Arte, 1992. The wall lamp Nobi guarantees total practicality for innovative elegant design. The two bowl-shaped glass discs ar...
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1990s Italian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces

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Metal

"006/2" Frosted Blown Glass & Chromed Metal Wall Lamps Designed by FontanaArte
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"006/2" are two wall lamps, designed and manufactured by FontanaArte, featuring a chromed metal frame and white frosted blown glass diffusers. Thei...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces

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Chrome, Metal

"Nobi" Wall Lamp with Frosted Glass Diffuser by Metis Lighting for FontanaArte
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Nobi" is a wall lamp, designed by Metis Lighting and manufactured by FontanaArte, featuring a matte white (matte RAL 9003), chromed or nickel plated satin metal frame, a frosted gla...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces

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Chrome, Nickel, Metal, Aluminum

FontanaArte 'Avico' Black Pendant Lamp Designed by Charles Williams
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Avico" is an outdoor pendant lamp, designed by Charles Williams and manufactured by FontanaArte, featuring a translucent white polyethylene diffuser, a metal canopy with cataphoresis protective coating and anodized aluminum color finish and a rigid stem. Its lighting sources are 3 x 100W (HA) Eco Saver E27 or 3 x 33W (FL) E27. Dimensions: Ø 63", Canopy's H. 31.5", Total H. 189" Extra-large semispherical shape for this outdoor hanging lamp...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces

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Metal

Fontana Arte Flute Wall Lamp by Franco Raggi
Located in Brooklyn, NY
A glass cone holds the chromed aluminium reflector, supported by three slender metal rods. Equilibrium and lightness for this family of lamps available in floor and wall versions, fo...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces

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Aluminum, Chrome

Fontana Arte Naska Wall Lamp in Steel and Aluminum, Designed in 1933
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The Naska family of lamps is a classic from the 1933 Fontana Arte archives manufactured in 2017. Made of steel and aluminum, it is simple and functional, with a revolving, adjustable...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces

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Aluminum, Steel

Odo Fioravant Fontana Arte Volee Wall Lamp in Aluminum, Designed in 2015
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Designed by Odo Fioravant and manufactured by Fontana Arte, the Volley is a Led luminaire of the latest generation, in which the formal research is combined with technological innova...
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2010s Italian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces

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Aluminum

Odo Fioravanti Fontana Arte Bonnet Polished Aluminum Wall Lamp, Designed in 2014
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Manufactured in 2017 by Fontana Arte and designed by Odo Fioravanti in 2014, the Bonnet wall lamp in polished aluminum reworks the concept of indirect lighting. The top part conceals...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces

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Aluminum

Odo Fioravanti Fontana Arte Bonnet White Aluminum Wall Lamp, Designed in 2014
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Manufactured in 2017 by Fontana Arte and designed by Odo Fioravanti in 2014, the Bonnet wall lamp in white die-cast aluminum reworks the concept of indirect lighting. The top part co...
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2010s Italian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces

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Aluminum

Veca For Fontana Arte Pair Of Italian Steel And 7 Crystal Wall Sconces
Located in Prato, Tuscany
We kindly suggest that you read the entire description, as with it we try to give you detailed technical and historical information to guarantee the authenticity of our objects. Pecu...
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Late 20th Century Italian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces

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Crystal, Brass

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