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Table Lamps For Sale
Color: Silver
Color: Purple
“Pretty” Table Lamp matt finishing, violet Silk, Silvered Glass circle
Located in Pietrasanta, IT
Pretty lamp is entirely hand-made in Tuscany, Italy, and it is inspired by a young girl, a very pretty woman. Pretty is a lamp that has characteristics of softness and strength, it i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Brass
Louis Poulsen Panthella 320 Table Lamp by Verner Panton
Located in New York, NY
About This Product
The iconic Panthella Table Lamp is among Verner Panton's most popular designs, with its organic form that mirrors Panton's playful personality and design aesthetic...
Category
2010s Chinese Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Aluminum
Silverplate Lamps with Glass Diffusers, pair
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
USA, 1960s
Pair of classical silverplate Lamps with glass diffusers. Felt lined base. Small to medium scale.
DIMENSIONS: 5" Diameter x silver body is 17.5" H to the top of the silver...
Category
1960s American Vintage Table Lamps
Materials
Silver Plate
Vintage Asian Blue and White Glazed Ceramic Lamps - a Pair
Located in west palm beach, FL
Fantastic pair of vintage table lamps. Classic blue and white design with Asian characters on a Ming base shape. Rest on wooden plinths. Acquired from a Palm...
Category
Late 20th Century North American Ming Table Lamps
Materials
Ceramic
Firmamento Milano Pillola Table Lamp by Parisotto and Formenton Architetti
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Please note that VAT is not included in the price.
Elegant interior lamp designed as an essential element that creates an evocative light of great comfort. A matte ball of simple and pure form, cut in two perfect halves that diffuse reflected and discreet light. The project line is the essentiality that shapes both the aesthetics and the lighting effect. The light is spread from inside the ball, reflected on the inner shell of the dome and spread on the surface of the table on which it is placed. Designed for the living, its light gives a great atmosphere to the home. The unit features a dimmer enabling custom quality and intensity light.
Aldo Parisotto and Massimo Formenton graduated in architecture from the IUAV of Venice. In 1990 they founded their own design firm P+F Parisotto+Formenton Architetti. Their research is oriented towards a range of different design themes, through which they have developed wide experience on both the national and international levels. In the design field they developed a collaboration with leading furniture and lighting companies such as cc-tapis, FontanaArte, Mingardo, Minotti Cucine. In the yacht sector the studio worked for Sanlorenzo, Cantiere del Pardo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Aluminum
Louis Poulsen Panthella 250 Table Lamp by Verner Panton
Located in New York, NY
Verner Panton (1926-1998) is famous for his inspirational and colorful personality. A unique person with a special sense for color, shape, light function and space. Over the course o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Danish Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Metal
PH 2/1 Portable
Located in New York, NY
This portable table lamp emits a glare-free, soft and comfortable light, that has a dim-to-warm function, giving the perfect illumination for many different activities. The PH 2/1 Po...
Category
2010s Danish Table Lamps
Materials
Brass, Chrome
FLOS Miss K Table Lamp in Aluminized Silver by Philippe Starck
By Philippe Starck, Flos
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Created by innovative design master Philippe Starck, the Miss K table lamp brings a delightful duality to its work. When unlit, its transparent PC (p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Plastic
An Eighteenth Century Bidriware Vase as Lamp
Located in London, GB
An elegant and understated bidriware vase with fine engraved silver surface, the thin neck with protruding collar, the main body profusely decorated with a rested pattern of vertical...
Category
Late 18th Century Indian Antique Table Lamps
Materials
Silver Plate, Brass
Pair of Jardinieres-Candelabras by Boin-Taburet, France, Circa 1880
Located in PARIS, FR
Signed Boin-Taburet à Paris and numbered 34369 and 34370
Lovely pair of Louis XVI style planters with three light arms. Each jardiniere, with their liners in form of a basket based on a three leafy feet and a lobed base. The inner liners are removable.
The two French goldsmiths George Boin and his son-in-law Emile Taburet created around 1875 in Paris the company Boin-Taburet. They made many silver pieces inspired by the beautiful services of the eighteenth century. At the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1878, Georges Boin presented a “service de toilette” inspired by the work of François-Thomas Germain (1726-1791), and then at the Universal Exhibition of 1889, several epergnes, including one of them executed after drawings by the famous artist Juste-Aurèle Meissonier (1695-1750), as well as tea sets of Louis XIV, Louis XV and Louis XVI styles. Boin-Taburet firm also exhibited a tureen and platter after Pierre Germain...
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1880s French Louis XVI Antique Table Lamps
Materials
Silver
Purple patterned ceramic lamp in hand painted marigold floral
By Abby Kasonik
Located in Charlottesville, VA
Studio-made, hand-built, curvaceous ceramic lamp form painted in two shades of purple and incised in a whimsical marigold pattern.
Background in lilac and flowers in a deeper ameth...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Table Lamps
Materials
Brass
20th Century Lino Sabattini Pair of Table Lamps in Silver for Christofle, 70s
Located in Turin, Turin
Lino Sabattini was an Italian artist. He worked at a brassware store, where he also learned metalworking techniques. At the age of 30 he moved to Milan, where he opened a small works...
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Table Lamps
Materials
Metal
Postmodern Pink Mauve Glossed Spherical Table Lamp
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Amazing vintage postmodern spherical miniature table lamp. Features a glossy pink mauve finish.
Category
1980s American Post-Modern Vintage Table Lamps
Materials
Ceramic
Pr. Brutalist Table Lamps with Original Silver Finish Shades after James Mont
By James Mont
Located in New York, NY
Incredible pair of Brutalist, mid century, Hollywood Regency, table lamps, with original silver and blue decorated shades. The lamps depict a stylized city scene with columns, towers...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Brutalist Table Lamps
Materials
Ceramic, Paper
Kokeshi Cordless Porcelain Lamp in Pink, Light Blue and Lavender
By Lladro
Located in New York City, NY
Cordless porcelain lamp with a design inspired by traditional Japanese dolls.
Traditional simple Japanese dolls are reinterpreted in this version of cordle...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
Louis Poulsen PH 3/2 Table Lamp by Poul Henningsen
Located in New York, NY
About This Product
Poul Henningsen designed the three-shade system during 1925/1926. The first lights using the system were designed for an exhibition in Paris. His work with Louis P...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Danish Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Metal
Ceramic Table Lamp by Huguette and Marius Bessone, to Vallauris, circa 1970
Located in Saint Leonards-on-sea, England
A ceramic table lamp by Huguette and Marius Bessone to Vallauris. Depicting cubic form and lines. Good original conditions. New electrical system,
circa 1970. Signed under the base.
...
Category
Late 20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Ceramic
Ceramic, earthenware table lamp, circa late 1970
By Yves Mohy
Located in Saint Leonards-on-sea, England
Earthenware Ceramic Lamp by Yves Mohy for Virebent, 1979s. This ceramic table lamp features a circular shape with various colour pigments, showing a darker shade in the middle... Des...
Category
1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Table Lamps
Materials
Ceramic, Earthenware
Verner Panton 'Panthella 250' Table Lamp Grey Opaline Acrylic for Louis Poulsen
Located in Tilburg, NL
Verner Panton 'Panthella' Table Lamp for Louis Poulsen. Designed 1971, current production.
Designed in 1971, Panthella stands out as one of Verner Panton’s design icons with its uni...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Danish Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Aluminum
A Pair of Carved and silver gilt Painted Wood Column Table Lamps
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
A pair of carved and painted wood column table lamps, the shaft in the form of a Doric column, on a square section stepped base, with d...
Category
2010s European Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Hardwood, Paint
Vintage Danish Table Lamp from Kastrup Glass for Holmegaard
By Kastrup
Located in Søborg, DK
Vintage Danish table lamp by Kastrup glass for Holmegaard in blue hand blown glass from the 1960s.
Rewired with twisted black cloth flex and can be delivered with an EU UK or US plug.
The work was laid on 12 October 1847 by master of the stable Christian Conrad Sophus Count Danneskiold-Samsøe. In 1873 it was transferred to a limited company and in the same year Godthaab Glasværk near Helsingør (founded approx. 1858 by Mathias Jørgensen) was leased. This was definitively taken over in 1883, and in 1881 Tuborg Fabrikers Glasværk was bought, which was named Hellerup Glasværk. In the meantime, the count had disposed of the works in 1873. From 1907, the glass works were run in close collaboration with A/S De forenede Glasværker, Odense, and A/S Frederiksberg Glasværk, whose shares it took over. Under A/S De forenenede Glasværker belonged Fyns Glasværk, Odense, (founded 11 June 1874) and until 1907 Aarhus Glasværk, Århus, (founded 1898), which was then taken over by A/S Kastrup Glasværk. In 1918, the share capital in the glassworks in Aalborg was also acquired (founded in 1853 by chamberlain August Theodor Schütte, transferred to a limited company in 1905). In addition to Kastrup Glasværk, the company operated the following works: Hellerup Glasværk, De forenenede Glasværker i Odense and Aarhus Glasværk.
In 1892, the company had a large headquarters built at Nørre Voldgade 12 in Copenhagen by architect Philip Smidth. The building still bears the company's name.
The factory first had a large production of mouth-blown bottles, which were mechanized in 1912. Since then, mouth-blown drinking glasses, glassware, pocket larks, cheese bells...
Category
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Table Lamps
Materials
Blown Glass
Large One of a Kind Ceramic Lamp Base or Sculpture Vase "Pacific" Signed Dalo
By Dalo
Located in Paris, FR
Hand-sculpted ceramic lamp base or sculpture "Pacific" with stylized face ( Shiny dark blue enamel on stoneware )
One of a kind handmade piece signed by the French ceramicists DALO,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Table Lamps
Materials
Ceramic
Pair of Silver Table Lamps with Custom Yukata Lampshades
Located in Canton, MA
Pair of silver table lamps with custom yukata lampshades. These lamps are in an elegant and timeless neoclassical form, silver plate over sol...
Category
Late 20th Century Japanese Anglo-Japanese Table Lamps
Materials
Silver Plate
Pair of Vintage Italian Table Lamps with Custom Shades in Irish Linen
Located in Portlaoise, IE
Stylish pair of vintage Italian table lamps with bespoke custom made Irish linen shades. This beautiful pair offer a two way lighting system where by both the top and the bottom of t...
Category
1960s Italian Meiji Vintage Table Lamps
Materials
Chrome
Pair of Cobalt Blue Glass Table Lamps with White Interior, circa 1970s
Located in London, GB
Beautiful cobalt blue glass table lamps with a white interior. Measuring height 24cm / 9.22 inches, by top diameter 17cm / 6.7 inches, and base diameter 11cm / 4.33 inches. The lamps are wired for the UK and are in full working order. They have a bayonet bulb fitting.
These stylish vintage cobalt...
Category
1970s Vintage Table Lamps
Materials
Glass
'Follow' Table Lamp, Wisteria Purple
Located in London, GB
Matte Wisteria base with purple Mohair shade
Estimated processing time is 2-3 weeks from order confirmation
Pictured with a Mini Globe LED E27 Bulb. Bulb not included
To pair this...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Table Lamps
Materials
Ceramic
Stig Lindberg 'Grazia' for Gustavsberg Table Lamp Sweden 1960 Signed
Located in Paris, FR
Table lamp by Stig lindberg model from serie Grazia" made for Gustavsberg in Sweden around 1960.
White glaze, silver decoration of plant ornamentation. Marked "Made in Sweden Gustavsberg 217". Height 21 cm without the shade structure...
Category
Mid-20th Century Swedish Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Silver
Modern Purple Green Orange Pink White Blue Black or Yellow Teddy Bear Table Lamp
Located in Origgio (VA), IT
The teddy bear, the emotional object par excellence, is reinterpreted by Stefano Giovannoni for Qeeboo and becomes a table lamp. The new pop icon, tender, and fun at the same time was designed in two versions, Boy & Girl. Teddy Girl, more timid and delicate, brings to light the feminine soul of the famous little bear, embracing a small luminous sphere. The luminous bear thus expands the large Qeeboo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Plastic
Martinelli Luce LED Minipipistrello 620/J Table Lamp by Gae Aulenti
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Mini version of the Pipistrello lamp designed by Gae Aulenti in 1965.
Table lamp diffused lighting. Glazed stainless steel structure, white opal methacrylate diffuser. Base and knob...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Stainless Steel
Martinelli Luce Dimmable LED Pipistrello 620 Table Lamp by Gae Aulenti
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Designed in 1965 by Gae Aulenti for Martinelli Luce, the lamp is made with innovative techniques for the diffuser in methacrylate for the time in which it was designed. The shape of ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Stainless Steel
Danish Stoneware Table Lamp with Lavender Blue Glaze
Located in Esbjerg, DK
Stylish mallet shaped stoneware table lamp with fluted white Danish shade. The base exhibits a delicate light-purple glaze and an incised cubist motif. De...
Category
1970s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Table Lamps
Materials
Stoneware
Swedish Grace Table Lamp 6853 by Harald Elof Notini for Böhlmarks, Sweden 1920s
Located in Hägersten, SE
Table lamp 6853 designed by Harald Elof Notini. Produced by Böhlmarks lampfabrik in Stockholm Sweden during the 1920s. Made from silver plated brass with an opal glass shade of later...
Category
1920s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Table Lamps
Materials
Silver Plate, Brass
Contemporary Pair of Holey Cast Silver Metal Lamps, Italy
Located in SAINT-OUEN, FR
Sculptural pair of table or bedside holey lamps in cast aluminum or silver brass. In the mood of Hervé Van Der Straeten, Garouste & Bonetti, En attendant les Barbares...
Category
2010s Italian Brutalist Table Lamps
Materials
Metal
FLOS Taccia Led in Silver w/ Glass Diffuser, Achille & Pier Giacomo Castiglioni
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The Castiglioni brothers often created designs that challenged our perspective, and the Taccia, which gives the illusion of an upside-down hanging lamp, is an inspired example of tha...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Aluminum
18th Century Spanish Lamp
Located in Dallas, TX
Spanish lamp from 18th century.
Category
18th Century Antique Table Lamps
Spanish 1970's Silver Horse Table Lamp
Located in Fairfax, VA
1970's silver over bronze horse in simple classic design Spanish table lamp, fitted with square hardback silk lampshade.
3way socket, 250watts max.
Category
1970s Spanish Vintage Table Lamps
Materials
Silver
Pair of Holmegaard Table Lamps with New Silk Custom Made Lampshades René Houben
By Holmegaard
Located in Rijssen, NL
Beautiful pair of glass table lamps by Holmegaard, Denmark, 1960s. Sculptural pieces made of handmade ceramic in Persian blue tones. With new matching custom made blue silk lamp shad...
Category
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Metal, Brass
Silverplate Candlestick Lamps
Located in Canton, MA
Custom Lamps made from Silverplate candlesticks from the early 21rst Century. New wiring and dimmer socket. Includes harp. Available in multi...
Category
Early 2000s Unknown Neoclassical Table Lamps
Materials
Silver Plate
Table Lamp, 1900, Silver Plated Metal, Sign: Rouseau / Muller
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Table lamp "Jugendstil, Art Nouveau, Liberty"
Materia: silver plated metal and art glass
Country: France
Glass: Muller
To take care of your property and the lives of our customers, ...
Category
1920s French Art Nouveau Vintage Table Lamps
Materials
Art Glass
Verner Panton 'Pantop' Table Lamp in 'Matt Classic Blue' 1980 for Verpan
Located in Tilburg, NL
Verner Panton 'Pantop' table lamp in 'Matt Classic Blue' for Verpan. Designed in 1980. New, current production.
The elegant Pantop line was designed by Verner Panton in 1980, and ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Danish Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Metal
Table Lamp, 1960, Attributed to Verner Panton, Denmark
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Table lamp
Country: Denmark
To take care of your property and the lives of our customers, the new wiring has been done.
If you want to live in the golden years, this is the table l...
Category
1950s Danish Space Age Vintage Table Lamps
Materials
Plastic
Pixo Plus Table Lamp by Pablo Designs
Located in San Francisco, CA
Pixo Plus integrates ultra-convenient wireless charging technology + USB port for the ultimate task lightning experience. Designed for maximum utility in a minimal footprint, this co...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Aluminum, Steel
Artisan Pair of Murano Glass Block Table Lamps 2022
By Venfield
Located in New York, NY
Hand made Murano clear glass block table lamps with alternating blocks of silver leaf filament inclusions, Italy 2022.
Lampshades are sold sep...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Metal, Silver Leaf
Art Deco Table Lamp Design: Wmf, 1920, in Silver Bronze and Glass
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Table lamp Art deco
Materia: silver bronze and glass
Style: Art Deco
Country: German
To take care of your property and the lives of our customers, the new wiring has been done.
We ...
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1920s German Art Deco Vintage Table Lamps
Materials
Chrome
German Circo Post Modern, Desk Lamp, 1980s
Located in Den Haag, NL
German postmodern desk lamp, designed by Linke Plewa for Brilliant Leuchten in the 1980s. Halogen. Revolving base. Works perfect.
Category
1980s German Post-Modern Vintage Table Lamps
Materials
Plastic
English Lamp in Silver Plate with Flowers
Located in Alessandria, Piemonte
English silver plate table lamp: high cm. 8,5 x diameter cm. 18,5 -
( with French name "bouillotte") with nice fabric anemones (or buttercups) arrangement. Really interesting...
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Mid-20th Century English Other Table Lamps
Materials
Silver Plate
France Pair of Lamps, 1900, silver bronze and wood
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Table lamp "Jugendstil, Art Nouveau, Liberty"
Materia: silver bronze and wood
Country: France
To take care of your property and the lives of our customers, the new wiring has been ...
Category
1920s French Art Nouveau Vintage Table Lamps
Materials
Wood
Unique Silver Plated Table Lamp, Gunther Lambert Lamp, Silver Lamp, Rare Piece
Located in ROTTERDAM, ZH
What a lamp. This table lamp is a must have for everybody who likes a bit of extravert lighting in the house, bar, store or restaurant. This lamp is a true piece of art. Silver Plate...
Category
1990s German Hollywood Regency Table Lamps
Materials
Silver Plate
Bola Medium Table Sphere Lamp by Pablo Designs
Located in San Francisco, CA
The Bola sphere table series fuses an elegant blown opal glass sphere with a mirrored disc reflector in polished stainless steel to give the illusion of a ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Steel, Stainless Steel
Atalaya Table Lamp by Cristián Mohaded
Located in Córdoba, X
The light that penetrates minerals reveals a beauty that has been hidden within mountains for millions of years. Geological journeys discover precious stones and open the path to the...
Category
2010s Argentine Art Deco Table Lamps
Materials
Onyx, Steel, Silver Leaf, Cut Steel
Modern World War II Rocket Gold Silver or Copper Table Lamp By Studio Job
Located in Origgio (VA), IT
The V-2 rocket from World War II became an icon in the 1950s a symbol of futuristic technology and the American space program. It became iconic with children as the rocket that took the character Tin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Plastic
Modern Velvet Yellow Sculptural Teddybear Table or Floor Lamp
Located in Origgio (VA), IT
The teddy bear, the emotional object par excellence, is reinterpreted by Stefano Giovannoni for Qeeboo and becomes a table lamp. The new pop icon, tender, and fun at the same time was designed in two versions, Boy & Girl. Teddy Girl, more timid and delicate, brings to light the feminine soul of the famous little bear, embracing a small luminous sphere. The luminous bear thus expands the large Qeeboo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Plastic
Vintage Italian Rococo Style Silver Gilt Table Lamp
Located in Sheffield, MA
Add an element of classical elegance to your home with this silver gilded small Italian carved wood table lamp. Perfect for a room where...
Category
20th Century Italian Rococo Table Lamps
Materials
Wood
Large French Silvered Alter Lamp
Located in Chillerton, Isle of Wight
Large French Silvered Alter Lamp
This is a very beautiful piece, it originates from a French Church it stands on a decorative 3 sided base, the central co...
Category
Late 19th Century French Provincial Antique Table Lamps
Materials
Silver Plate
Mid Century Modern Blue and Gold Porcelain Table Lamps – a Pair
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Exceptional Mid-Century Modern pair of table lamps. Each feature a blue vase with gold rings.
3 way lighting.
Category
1980s American Post-Modern Vintage Table Lamps
Materials
Ceramic
Art Deco WMF Ikora Paul Haustein "Congo" Table Lamp
By WMF Ikora
Located in Bochum, NRW
An Art Deco silvered and patinated brass and ivory "Congo" IKORA WMF covered jar lamp (model no. 110/216, circa 1929). Designed by Paul Haustein for WMF,...
Category
1930s German Art Deco Vintage Table Lamps
Materials
Silver Plate, Brass
Lim C Table Lamp in Brushed Silver by Pablo Designs
Located in San Francisco, CA
LIM is a revolutionary ultra-slim LED task light that is as fun to use as it is functional. LIM’s “L” shaped arm discreetly conceals an array of high-output LEDs and utilizes a magne...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Aluminum
Antique Victorian Silver Plated Doric Column Table Lamp, 19th Century
Located in London, GB
This is a splendid antique Victorian silver-plated Doric column table lamp now converted to electricity, late 19th Century in date.
This o...
Category
1880s English Victorian Antique Table Lamps
Materials
Silver Plate
Antique and Vintage Table Lamps for Sale: Find Art Deco Table Lamps, Murano Glass Table Lamps and Other Lighting on 1stDibs
Well-crafted antique and vintage table lamps do more than provide light; the right fixture-and-table combination can add a focal point or creative element to any interior.
Proper table lamps have long been used for lighting our most intimate spaces. Perfect for lighting your nightstand or reading nook, table lamps play an integral role in styling an inviting room. In the years before electricity, lamps used oil. Today, a rewired 19th-century vintage lamp can still provide a touch of elegance for a study.
After industrial milestones such as mass production took hold in the Victorian era, various design movements sought to bring craftsmanship and innovation back to this indispensable household item. Lighting designers affiliated with Art Deco, which originated in the glamorous roaring ’20s, sought to celebrate modern life by fusing modern metals with dark woods and dazzling colors in the fixtures of the era. The geometric shapes and gilded details of vintage Art Deco table lamps provide an air of luxury and sophistication that never goes out of style.
After launching in 1934, Anglepoise lamps soon became a favorite among modernist architects and designers, who interpreted the fixture as “a machine for lighting,” just as Le Corbusier had reimagined the house as “a machine for living in.” The popular task light owed to a collaboration between a vehicle-suspension engineer by the name of George Carwardine and a West Midlands springs manufacturer, Herbert Terry & Sons.
Some mid-century modern table lamps, particularly those created by the likes of Joe Colombo and the legendary lighting artisans at Fontana Arte, bear all the provocative hallmarks associated with Space Age design. Sculptural and versatile, the Louis Poulsen table lamps of that period were revolutionary for their time and still seem innovative today.
If you are looking for something more contemporary, industrial table lamps are demonstrative of a newly chic style that isn’t afraid to pay homage to the past. They look particularly at home in any rustic loft space amid exposed brick and steel beams.
Before you buy a desk lamp or table lamp for your living room, consider your lighting needs. The Snoopy lamp, designed in 1967, or any other “banker’s lamp” (shorthand for the Emeralite desk lamps patented by H.G. McFaddin and Company), provides light at a downward angle that is perfect for writing, while the Fontana table lamp and the beloved Grasshopper lamp by Greta Magnusson-Grossman each yield a soft and even glow. Some table lamps require lampshades to be bought separately.
Whether it’s a classic antique Tiffany table lamp, a Murano glass table lamp or even a bold avant-garde fixture custom-made by a contemporary design firm, the right table lamp can completely transform a room. Find the right one for you on 1stDibs.
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